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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 93, NWS Dodge City, KS
NWS Dodge City, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 13, 2000, 10:33 PM CDT for Pratt County, Kansas. It was in force for 42 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
- Jun 13, 2000, 10:33 PM CDT (03:33 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 13, 2000, 11:15 PM CDT
- In force
- 42 min
- Issued by
- NWS Dodge City, KS
- Area
- Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction
County Pratt County, KS
The radar
The Wichita radar (KICT), 90 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 03:35 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.
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, 9:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 00:00Z, 3.6 hours before the alert went out and 130 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
- 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
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WUUS53 KDDC 140334 SVRDDC KSC151-140415- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS 1033 PM CDT TUE JUN 13 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN DODGE CITY HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... SOUTHERN PRATT COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL KANSAS * UNTIL 1115 PM CDT * AT 1033 PM CDT...DODGE CITY DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 4 MILES NORTH OF ISABEL...OR ABOUT 13 MILES SOUTHEAST OF PRATT...MOVING EAST AT 15 MPH. * SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED RURAL PRATT COUNTY AT 1050 PM CDT THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM IS CAPABLE OF PRODUCING... HAIL UP TO THE SIZE OF QUARTERS FOR YOUR PROTECTION MOVE TO AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF YOUR HOME OR BUSINESS. STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS. LAT...LON 3761 9866 3743 9866 3739 9814 3764 9813 BURGERT
The office that day
Everything else NWS Dodge City, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 13, 7:04 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | DDC | Pratt | 3 hr |
| Jun 13, 7:18 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Pratt | 42 min |
| Jun 13, 8:11 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Kiowa | 49 min |
| Jun 13, 8:34 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Clark | 41 min |
| Jun 13, 9:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Kiowa | 45 min |
| Jun 13, 9:32 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Pratt | 43 min |
| Jun 13, 11:15 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Barber | 30 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.