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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 81, NWS Dodge City, KS
NWS Dodge City, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 13, 2000, 4:06 PM CDT for Clark County, Meade County, Kansas. It was in force for 24 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 13, 2000, 4:06 PM CDT (21:06 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 13, 2000, 4:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 24 min
- Issued by
- NWS Dodge City, KS
- Area
- Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction
Counties Clark County, KS, Meade County, KS
The radar
The Dodge City radar (KDDC), 69 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:09 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 13, 4:09 PM CDT | Hail 0.75 | Meade, 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 13, 3:00 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 12:00Z, 9.1 hours before the alert went out and 70 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
- 1269 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -372 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1214 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 18 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 230 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 409 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.7
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WUUS53 KDDC 132107 SVRDDC KSC025-119-132130- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS 406 PM CDT TUE JUN 13 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN DODGE CITY HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... CLARK COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST KANSAS SOUTHEASTERN MEADE COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST KANSAS * UNTIL 430 PM CDT * AT 406 PM CDT...DODGE CITY DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 14 MILES WEST OF ASHLAND...MOVING EAST AT 25 MPH. * SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED ASHLAND AT 425 PM CDT THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM IS CAPABLE OF PRODUCING... HAIL UP TO THE SIZE OF NICKELS WINDS UP TO 60 MILES AN HOUR A TORNADO WATCH IS ALSO IN EFFECT. REMEMBER...SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS CAN PRODUCE TORNADOES WITH LITTLE OR NO ADVANCE WARNING. FOR YOUR PROTECTION MOVE TO AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF YOUR HOME OR BUSINESS. STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS. LAT...LON 3718 10014 3700 10026 3702 9958 3734 9962 BURGERT
The office that day
Everything else NWS Dodge City, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 12, 7:34 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Hodgeman | 41 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 |
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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.