Alert archive / Kansas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2000
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 87, NWS Dodge City, KS
NWS Dodge City, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 13, 2000, 6:21 PM CDT for Pratt County, Kansas. It was in force for 54 min. 5 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, 6:21 PM CDT (23:21 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 13, 2000, 7:15 PM CDT
- In force
- 54 min
- Issued by
- NWS Dodge City, KS
- Area
- Whole counties
County Pratt County, KS
The radar
The Dodge City radar (KDDC), 109 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:24 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, 6:35 PM CDT | Hail 1.75 | Coats, KS | |
| Jun 13, 6:55 PM CDT | Hail 0.75 | Sawyer, KS | |
| Jun 13, 6:58 PM CDT | Hail 1.75 | Coats, KS | |
| Jun 13, 6:58 PM CDT | Thunderstorm Wind 52 E | Coats, KS | |
| Jun 13, 7:22 PM CDT | Hail 1.75 | Coats, 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, 11.4 hours before the alert went out and 103 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 132323 SVRDDC KSC151-140015- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS 621 PM CDT TUE JUN 13 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN DODGE CITY HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... PRATT COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL KANSAS * UNTIL 715 PM CDT * AT 621 PM CDT...RADAR INDICATED AND SPOTTERS REPORTED GOLFBALL SIZE HAIL 6 MILES SOUTHWEST OF CULLISON...OR ABOUT 9 MILES SOUTHEAST OF HAVILAND...MOVING EAST AT 10 MPH. * SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED 6 MILES SOUTH OF CULLISON AT 630 PM CDT COATS AT 700 PM CDT THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM IS CAPABLE OF PRODUCING... DAMAGING HAIL UP TO THE SIZE OF GOLFBALLSL 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. 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, 4:40 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 |
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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.