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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 92, NWS Dodge City, KS

June 13, 2000Pratt County, Kansas

NWS Dodge City, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 13, 2000, 9:32 PM CDT for Pratt County, Kansas. It was in force for 43 min. 2 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, 9:32 PM CDT (02:32 UTC)
Expired
Jun 13, 2000, 10:15 PM CDT
In force
43 min
Issued by
NWS Dodge City, KS
Area
Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

County Pratt County, KS

The radar

The Dodge City radar (KDDC), 108 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 02:34 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

TimeReportWhereRemark
Jun 13, 9:55 PM CDTHail 0.75Pratt, KS
Jun 13, 10:03 PM CDTHail 0.88Pratt, 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.

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

The nearest sounding before it

Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 00:00Z, 2.5 hours before the alert went out and 102 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 140233
SVRDDC
KSC151-140315-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS
932 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 1015 PM CDT

* AT 932 PM CDT...DODGE CITY DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE        
  THUNDERSTORM 4 MILES WEST OF PRATT MOVING EAST AT 20 MILES AN HOUR.
  THE STORM WILL REACH PRATT BY 950 PM CDT AND HAVILAND BY 1005 PM   
  CDT. 

THIS SEVERE THUNDERSTORM IS CAPABLE OF PRODUCING...
  HAIL UP TO THE SIZE OF QUARTERS
  DAMAGING WINDS GREATER THAN 60 MILES AN HOUR
  VERY HEAVY RAINFALL WHICH MAY CAUSE LOCALIZED FLOODING

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

LAT...LON 3753 9894 3748 9847 3781 9847 3772 9895

JOHNSON

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, 9:00 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCKiowa45 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.