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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 80, NWS Dodge City, KS
NWS Dodge City, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 12, 2000, 7:34 PM CDT for Hodgeman County, Kansas. It was in force for 41 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, 7:34 PM CDT (00:34 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 12, 2000, 8:15 PM CDT
- In force
- 41 min
- Issued by
- NWS Dodge City, KS
- Area
- Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction
County Hodgeman County, KS
The radar
The Dodge City radar (KDDC), 41 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:35 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 00:00Z, 0.6 hours before the alert went out and 42 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
- 3861 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -25 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1517 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 16 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 25 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 182 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 130036 SVRDDC KSC083-130115- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS 734 PM CDT MON JUN 12 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN DODGE CITY HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... HODGEMAN COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST KANSAS * UNTIL 815 PM CDT * AT 734 PM CDT...8 MILES WEST OF JETMORE...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 20 MPH. * SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED RURAL AREAS WEST AND NOQRTH OF JETMORE THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM IS CAPABLE OF PRODUCING... HAIL UP TO THE SIZE OF NICKELS DAMAGING WINDS GREATER THAN 60 MILES AN HOUR LAT...LON 3811 10021 3795 10001 3822 9959 3824 10020 REITER
The office that day
Everything else NWS Dodge City, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 13, 4:06 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Clark, Meade | 24 min |
| Jun 13, 4:30 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Kiowa | 45 min |
| Jun 13, 4:40 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Stafford | 50 min |
| Jun 13, 4:50 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Pratt | 55 min |
| Jun 13, 5:14 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Kiowa | 46 min |
| Jun 13, 5:29 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DDC | Pratt, Stafford | 31 min |
| Jun 13, 5:57 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Kiowa | 63 min |
| Jun 13, 6:12 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | DDC | Kiowa | 3 hr |
| Jun 13, 6:21 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Pratt | 54 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.