Alert archive / Kansas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2000
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 72, NWS Dodge City, KS
NWS Dodge City, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 11, 2000, 6:24 PM CDT for Morton County, Kansas. It was in force for 51 min. 2 reports came from 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, with what was reported inside it.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 11, 2000, 6:24 PM CDT (23:24 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 11, 2000, 7:15 PM CDT
- In force
- 51 min
- Issued by
- NWS Dodge City, KS
- Area
- Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction
County Morton County, KS
The radar
The Dodge City radar (KDDC), 185 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:25 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.
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 11, 6:35 PM CDT | Thunderstorm Wind 52 E | Elkhart, KS | |
| Jun 11, 6:45 PM CDT | Hail 0.75 | Elkhart, KS |
NCEI Storm Data entries that began inside the alert's area while it was in force. Before 2003 the local storm report archive is thin, so this is the record of what happened rather than what was phoned in.
The nearest sounding before it
Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 12:00Z, 11.4 hours before the alert went out and 191 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 6 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -192 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1643 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 2 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -111 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -52 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000
WUUS53 KDDC 112325
SVRDDC
KSC129-120015-
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS
624 PM CDT SUN JUN 11 2000
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN DOGE CITY HAS ISSUED A
* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
WESTERN MORTON COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST KANSAS
* UNTIL 715 PM CDT
* AT 624 PM CDT...DODGE CITY DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE
THUNDERSTORM 11 MILES WEST OF WILBURTON...OR ABOUT 4 MILES
NORTHWEST OF ELKHART...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 20 MPH.
* SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED
ELKHART BY 630 PM CDT
THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM IS CAPABLE OF PRODUCING...
HAIL UP TO THE SIZE OF QUARTERS
DAMAGING WINDS GREATER THAN 60 MILES AN HOUR
VERY FREQUENT AND DEADLY CLOUD-TO-GROUND LIGHTNING
LAT...LON 3707 10203 3700 10192 3700 10171 3735 10179
3737 10202
16The office that day
Everything else NWS Dodge City, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 10, 7:14 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DDC | Seward | 16 min |
| Jun 10, 8:54 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Ford | 36 min |
| Jun 11, 6:38 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Morton, Stanton | 52 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.