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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 83, NWS Dodge City, KS

June 13, 2000Stafford County, Kansas

NWS Dodge City, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 13, 2000, 4:40 PM CDT for Stafford County, Kansas. It was in force for 50 min. 6 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 13, 2000, 4:40 PM CDT (21:40 UTC)
Expired: Jun 13, 2000, 5:30 PM CDT
In force: 50 min
Issued by: NWS Dodge City, KS
Area: Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

County Stafford County, KS

The radar

The Wichita radar (KICT), 102 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:42 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, 4:46 PM CDT	Hail 1	St John, KS
Jun 13, 4:48 PM CDT	Hail 0.75	St John, KS
Jun 13, 4:48 PM CDT	Hail 1	St John, KS
Jun 13, 4:54 PM CDT	Hail 1	St John, KS
Jun 13, 5:10 PM CDT	Hail 0.75	Stafford, KS
Jun 13, 5:34 PM CDT	Tornado F0	Stafford, KS	Tornado "skipped" much of the way with some light tree damage reported.

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, 9.7 hours before the alert went out and 121 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 132141
SVRDDC
KSC185-132230-

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

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN DODGE CITY HAS ISSUED A

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

* UNTIL 530 PM CDT

* AT 440 PM CDT...DODGE CITY DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE
  THUNDERSTORM 6 MILES SOUTHEAST OF ST. JOHN...MOVING EAST AT 25 MPH.

* SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED
  STAFFORD AT 450 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.

LAT...LON 3802 9880 3784 9880 3780 9815 3805 9814

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, 4:30 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Kiowa	45 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

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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.