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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 9, NWS Dodge City, KS
NWS Dodge City, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Feb 24, 2000, 9:15 PM CST for Kiowa County, Kansas. It was in force for 45 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
- Feb 24, 2000, 9:15 PM CST (03:15 UTC)
- Expired
- Feb 24, 2000, 10:00 PM CST
- In force
- 45 min
- Issued by
- NWS Dodge City, KS
- Area
- Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction
County Kiowa County, KS
The watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 24, 7:00 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 5 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 00:00Z, 3.3 hours before the alert went out and 55 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
- 4 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -170 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 2390 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 51 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 105 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 115 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 250317 SVRDDC KSC097-250400- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS 915 PM CST THU FEB 24 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN DODGE CITY HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... KIOWA COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL KANSAS * UNTIL 1000 PM CST * AT 915 PM CST...DODGE CITY DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 5 MILES SOUTH OF MULLINVILLE...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 20 MPH. * SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED GREENSBURG BY 945 PM CST THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM IS CAPABLE OF PRODUCING... HAIL UP TO THE SIZE OF NICKELS WINDS UP TO 60 MILES AN HOUR LAT...LON 3770 9955 3737 9946 3740 9903 3772 9904 REITER NNNN
The office that day
Everything else NWS Dodge City, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 24, 6:57 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Meade | 48 min |
| Feb 24, 8:26 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Gray | 49 min |
| Feb 24, 8:47 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Clark | 43 min |
| Feb 24, 9:06 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Edwards | 39 min |
| Feb 24, 9:25 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Comanche | 50 min |
| Feb 24, 9:55 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Barber, Kiowa, Pratt | 65 min |
| Feb 24, 9:55 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Comanche | 65 min |
| Feb 24, 11:25 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Pratt | 50 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.