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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 82, NWS Dodge City, KS

June 13, 2000Kiowa County, Kansas

NWS Dodge City, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 13, 2000, 4:30 PM CDT for Kiowa County, Kansas. It was in force for 45 min. 4 reports came from inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named, with what was reported inside it.

The facts

Issued: Jun 13, 2000, 4:30 PM CDT (21:30 UTC)
Expired: Jun 13, 2000, 5:15 PM CDT
In force: 45 min
Issued by: NWS Dodge City, KS
Area: Whole counties

County Kiowa County, KS

The radar

The Dodge City radar (KDDC), 64 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:29 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
Jun 13, 4:30 PM CDT	Hail 0.75	Greensburg, KS
Jun 13, 4:35 PM CDT	Hail 0.75	Greensburg, KS
Jun 13, 5:20 PM CDT	Hail 1	Haviland, KS
Jun 13, 5:25 PM CDT	Hail 2	Haviland, 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, 9.5 hours before the alert went out and 59 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.

Skew-T log-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.

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

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
WUUS53 KDDC 132130
SVRDDC
KSC097-132215-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS
430 PM CDT TUE JUN 13 2000

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN DODGE CITY HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  KIOWA COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL KANSAS

* UNTIL 515 PM CDT

* AT 430 PM CDT...DODGE CITY DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE
  THUNDERSTORM OVER GREENSBURG...MOVING EAST AT 25 MPH.

* SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED
  HAVILAND AT 445 PM CDT

THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM IS CAPABLE OF PRODUCING...
  HAIL THE SIZE OF PENNIES
  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.

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, 4:06 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Clark, Meade	24 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.