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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 71, NWS Dodge City, KS

June 10, 2000Ford County, Kansas

NWS Dodge City, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 10, 2000, 8:54 PM CDT for Ford County, Kansas. It was in force for 36 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The outline the Iowa Environmental Mesonet reconstructed for it; the warning itself named whole counties.

The facts

Issued
Jun 10, 2000, 8:54 PM CDT (01:54 UTC)
Expired
Jun 10, 2000, 9:30 PM CDT
In force
36 min
Issued by
NWS Dodge City, KS
Area
Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

County Ford County, KS

The radar

The Dodge City radar (KDDC), 13 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:55 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

Open the radar archive at this moment

The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.

The nearest sounding before it

Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 00:00Z, 1.9 hours before the alert went out and 19 km from the middle of its area. This is the routine balloon launch nearest before it, the air the forecaster had in hand, not a measurement taken for the alert.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Dodge City, at 00:00Z on 2000-06-11Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1888 joules per kilogram.LCLEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Dodge City, at 00:00Z on 2000-06-11The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 40 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.
Mixed-layer CAPE
1888 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-7 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1741 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
22 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
40 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
31 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.9

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
WUUS53 KDDC 110156
SVRDDC
KSC057-110230-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS
854 PM CDT SAT JUN 10 2000

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN DOGE CITY HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  WESTERN FORD COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST KANSAS

* UNTIL 930 PM CDT

* AT 854 PM CDT...DODGE CITY DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE
  THUNDERSTORM 15 MILES SOUTHWEST OF DODGE CITY...OR ABOUT 4 MILES
  SOUTHEAST OF ENSIGN...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 25 MPH.

* SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED
  DODGE CITY BY 915 PM CDT

THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM IS CAPABLE OF PRODUCING...
  HAIL THE SIZE OF PENNIES
  DAMAGING WINDS GREATER THAN 60 MILES AN HOUR
  ^VERY FREQUENT AND DEADLY CLOUD-TO-GROUND LIGHTNING

LAT...LON 3768 10020 3748 10021 3774 9983 3790 10001

REITER

The office that day

Everything else NWS Dodge City, KS issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 10, 7:14 PM CDTTornado WarningDDCSeward16 min
Jun 11, 6:24 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCMorton51 min
Jun 11, 6:38 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCMorton, Stanton52 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Kansas, 2000Every severe thunderstorm warning in 2000

Sources

The product and its follow-ups from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service and Storm Prediction Center text; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.