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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 95, NWS Dodge City, KS

June 20, 2000Comanche County, Kansas

NWS Dodge City, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 20, 2000, 7:03 PM CDT for Comanche County, Kansas. It was in force for 57 min. 1 report 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 20, 2000, 7:03 PM CDT (00:03 UTC)
Expired: Jun 20, 2000, 8:00 PM CDT
In force: 57 min
Issued by: NWS Dodge City, KS
Area: Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

County Comanche County, KS

What was reported inside it

Time	Report	Where	Remark
Jun 20, 7:25 PM CDT	Hail 0.75	Coldwater, 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 20, 3:00 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	6 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 00:00Z, 0.1 hours before the alert went out and 100 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 101 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -59 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 2648 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 31 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -10 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 153 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: -0.0

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The text

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

000 
WUUS53 KDDC 210004
SVRDDC
KSC033-210100-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS
703 PM CDT TUE JUN 20 2000

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN DODGE CITY HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  SOUTHEAST COMANCHE COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL KANSAS

* UNTIL 800 PM CDT

* AT 703 PM CDT...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS LOCATED 17 MILES 
  SOUTHEAST OF COLDWATER...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 20 MPH.

* SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED
  RURAL COMANCHE COUNTY AT 720 PM CDT

  THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM IS CAPABLE OF PRODUCING...
  HAIL THE SIZE OF PENNIES



REPORT SEVERE WEATHER TO THE NEAREST LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCY. THEY
WILL RELAY YOUR REPORT TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORECAST
OFFICE IN DODGE CITY.

LAT...LON 3715 9925 3700 9926 3699 9899 3720 9899

GERARD

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 21, 12:05 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Morton	40 min
Jun 21, 12:36 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Stevens	39 min
Jun 21, 1:20 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Stevens	25 min
Jun 21, 1:44 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Seward	46 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Kansas, 2000 Every 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.