Alert archive / Kansas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2000
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 79, NWS Dodge City, KS
NWS Dodge City, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 12, 2000, 5:55 PM CDT for Haskell County, Seward County, Kansas. It was in force for 50 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 12, 2000, 5:55 PM CDT (22:55 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 12, 2000, 6:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 50 min
- Issued by
- NWS Dodge City, KS
- Area
- Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction
Counties Haskell County, KS, Seward County, KS
The radar
The Dodge City radar (KDDC), 88 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:55 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 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, 10.9 hours before the alert went out and 94 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.
625 WUUS53 KDDC 122256 SVRDDC KSC081-175-122345- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS 555 PM CDT MON JUN 12 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN DODGE CITY HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... HASKELL COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST KANSAS NOTHERN SEWARD COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST KANSAS * UNTIL 645 PM CDT * AT 555 PM CDT...DODGE CITY DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A LINE OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS ALONG A LINE EXTENDING FROM 13 MILES NORTHWEST OF SUBLETTE TO 18 MILES SOUTH OF SATANTA...MOVING EAST AT 25 MPH. * SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED SUBLETTE TICE THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS ARE CAPABLE OF PRODUCING... HAIL THE SIZE OF PENNIES DAMAGING WINDS GREATER THAN 60 MILES AN HOUR LAT...LON 3759 10102 3718 10105 3725 10066 3767 10068 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, 5:09 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Stevens | 51 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.