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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 91, NWS Dodge City, KS

June 13, 2000Kiowa County, Kansas

NWS Dodge City, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 13, 2000, 9:00 PM CDT 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 counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jun 13, 2000, 9:00 PM CDT (02:00 UTC)
Expired
Jun 13, 2000, 9:45 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 01:59 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The watch it was issued in

The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.

IssuedProductOfficeLasted
Jun 13, 3:00 PM CDTTornado WatchSPC6 hr
Jun 13, 9:00 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPC6 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 00:00Z, 2.0 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Dodge City, at 00:00Z on 2000-06-14Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 513 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Dodge City, at 00:00Z on 2000-06-14The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 35 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
513 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-120 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
2433 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
50 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
35 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
368 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
1.0

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The text

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

000 
WUUS53 KDDC 140200
SVRDDC
KSC097-140245-

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

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN DODGE CITY HAS ISSUED A

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

* UNTIL 945 PM CDT

* AT 900 PM CDT...DODGE CITY DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE
  THUNDERSTORM 5 MILES WEST OF BELVIDERE...OR ABOUT 13 MILES SOUTH OF
  HAVILAND...MOVING EAST AT 20 MPH.

* SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED
  BELVIDERE AT 905 PM CDT

THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM IS CAPABLE OF PRODUCING...
  HAIL UP TO THE SIZE OF NICKELS

THIS WARNING REPLACES THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING PREVIOUSLY
ISSUED.

FOR YOUR PROTECTION MOVE TO AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF
YOUR HOME OR BUSINESS. STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS.

BURGERT

The office that day

Everything else NWS Dodge City, KS issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 13, 7:04 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningDDCPratt3 hr
Jun 13, 7:18 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCPratt42 min
Jun 13, 8:11 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCKiowa49 min
Jun 13, 8:34 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCClark41 min
Jun 13, 9:32 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCPratt43 min
Jun 13, 10:33 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCPratt42 min
Jun 13, 11:15 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCBarber30 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.