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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 76, NWS Dodge City, KS

June 11, 2000Ford County, Kansas

NWS Dodge City, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 11, 2000, 9:27 PM CDT for Ford County, Kansas. It was in force for 23 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 11, 2000, 9:27 PM CDT (02:27 UTC)
Expired
Jun 11, 2000, 9:50 PM CDT
In force
23 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), 8 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 02:27 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, 2.5 hours before the alert went out and 5 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 2000-06-12Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 530 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 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 2000-06-12The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 38 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
530 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-68 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
2158 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
30 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
38 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
91 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
1.1

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The text

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

791 
WUUS53 KDDC 120227
SVRDDC
KSC057-120250-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS
927 PM CDT SUN JUN 11 2000

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN DOGE CITY HAS ISSUED A

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

* UNTIL 950 PM CDT

* AT 926 PM CDT...DODGE CITY DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A LINE OF SEVERE
  THUNDERSTORMS ALONG A LINE EXTENDING FROM 9 MILES NORTH OF DODGE   
  CITY TO 14 MILES SOUTHWEST OF FORD... MOVING NORTHEAST AT 20 MPH.

* SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED
  DODGE CITY AT 927 PM CDT
  FORD AT 955 PM CDT
  

THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS ARE CAPABLE OF PRODUCING...
  HAIL UP TO THE SIZE OF NICKELS
  WINDS UP TO 60 MILES AN HOUR



LAT...LON 3788 10014 3750 9999 3751 9961 3787 9959

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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 11, 8:37 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCFinney, Gray38 min
Jun 11, 8:37 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCMeade38 min
Jun 12, 4:00 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCMorton, Stanton45 min
Jun 12, 5:09 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCStevens51 min
Jun 12, 5:55 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCHaskell, Seward50 min

Nearby

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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.