Alert archive / Kansas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2000
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 77, NWS Dodge City, KS
NWS Dodge City, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 12, 2000, 4:00 PM CDT for Morton County, Stanton County, Kansas. It was in force for 45 min. 1 report 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 12, 2000, 4:00 PM CDT (21:00 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 12, 2000, 4:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 45 min
- Issued by
- NWS Dodge City, KS
- Area
- Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction
Counties Morton County, KS, Stanton County, KS
The radar
The Dodge City radar (KDDC), 167 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:00 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 12, 4:20 PM CDT | Thunderstorm Wind 52 E | Richfield, KS | Two inch limbs blown down. |
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 watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 12, 2:30 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 12:00Z, 9.0 hours before the alert went out and 173 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
- 1220 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -274 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1247 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 20 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 185 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 190 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 1.2
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
908
WUUS53 KDDC 122100
SVRDDC
KSC129-187-122145-
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS
400 PM CDT MON JUN 12 2000
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN DOGE CITY HAS ISSUED A
* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
NORTHERN MORTON COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST KANSAS
SOUTHERN STANTON COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST KANSAS
* UNTIL 445 PM CDT
* AT 400 PM CDT...DODGE CITY DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE
THUNDERSTORM 16 MILES SOUTHWEST OF MANTER...OR ABOUT 10 MILES SOUTH
OF THE SAUNDERS ELEVATOR...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 20 MPH.
* SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED
MANTER
THE SAUNDERS ELEVATOR
THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM IS CAPABLE OF PRODUCING...
HAIL UP TO THE SIZE OF NICKELS
DAMAGING WINDS GREATER THAN 60 MILES AN HOUR
LAT...LON 3752 10202 3727 10201 3726 10156 3752 10155
3755 10177
REITERThe office that day
Everything else NWS Dodge City, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 11, 8:37 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Finney, Gray | 38 min |
| Jun 11, 8:37 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Meade | 38 min |
| Jun 11, 9:27 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Ford | 23 min |
| Jun 12, 5:09 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Stevens | 51 min |
| Jun 12, 5:55 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Haskell, Seward | 50 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.