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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 78, NWS Dodge City, KS
NWS Dodge City, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 12, 2000, 5:09 PM CDT for Stevens County, Kansas. It was in force for 51 min. 4 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 12, 2000, 5:09 PM CDT (22:09 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 12, 2000, 6:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 51 min
- Issued by
- NWS Dodge City, KS
- Area
- Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction
County Stevens County, KS
The radar
The Dodge City radar (KDDC), 137 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:10 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, 5:16 PM CDT | Hail 0.75 | Hugoton, KS | |
| Jun 12, 5:21 PM CDT | Hail 0.75 | Hugoton, KS | |
| Jun 12, 5:25 PM CDT | Hail 0.75 | Hugoton, KS | |
| Jun 12, 5:39 PM CDT | Hail 0.75 | Hugoton, 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 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, 10.2 hours before the alert went out and 143 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.
555 WUUS53 KDDC 122209 SVRDDC KSC189-122300- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS 509 PM CDT MON JUN 12 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN DODGE CITY HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... STEVENS COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST KANSAS * UNTIL 600 PM CDT * AT 509 PM CDT...DODGE CITY DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A LINE OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS ALONG A LINE EXTENDING FROM 11 MILES WEST OF MOSCOW TO 5 MILES SOUTH OF FETERITA...MOVING EAST AT 25 MPH. * SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED HUGOTON AT 515 PM CDT MOSCOW AT 530 PM CDT CAVE AT 545 PM CDT WOODS AT 550 PM CDT THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS ARE CAPABLE OF PRODUCING... HAIL THE SIZE OF PENNIES DAMAGING WINDS GREATER THAN 60 MILES AN HOUR LAT...LON 3735 10153 3701 10153 3702 10109 3737 10112 REITER
The 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, 4:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Morton, Stanton | 45 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.