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Tornado Warning 1, NWS Dodge City, KS

March 23, 2000Edwards County, Kansas

NWS Dodge City, KS issued this tornado warning at Mar 23, 2000, 4:20 PM CST for Edwards County, Kansas. It was in force for 25 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
Mar 23, 2000, 4:20 PM CST (22:20 UTC)
Expired
Mar 23, 2000, 4:45 PM CST
In force
25 min
Issued by
NWS Dodge City, KS
Area
Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

County Edwards County, KS

The radar

The Dodge City radar (KDDC), 58 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:23 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 nearest sounding before it

Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 12:00Z, 10.3 hours before the alert went out and 52 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 12:00Z on 2000-03-23Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Dodge City, at 12:00Z on 2000-03-23The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 79 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
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
633 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
50 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
79 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
-62 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 
WFUS53 KDDC 232222
TORDDC
KSC047-232245-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS
420 PM CST THU MAR 23 2000

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  NORTHERN EDWARDS COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL KANSAS

* UNTIL 445 PM CST

* AT 420 PM CST DODGE CITY DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED AND SPOTTERS
  REPORTED A TORNADO 5 MILES SOUTHEAST OF KINSLEY. THE TORNADO WAS
  MOVING NORTH AT 30 MPH.

* THE TORNADO WILL BE...
  6 MILES NORTHWEST OF FELLSBURG BY 425 PM CST
  NEAR LEWIS BY 435 PM CST

THIS IS A DANGEROUS STORM. MOVE INTO YOUR TORNADO SHELTER NOW! IF NO
UNDERGROUND SHELTER IS AVAILABLE...MOVE INTO AN INTERIOR ROOM ON TH-E
LOWEST FLOOR OF A STURDY STRUCTURE. STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS. ABANDON
MOBILE HOMES...WHICH OFFER NO PROTECTION FROM A TORNADO.

LAT...LON 3784 9945 3776 9915 3790 9916 3796 9933
          3807 9946

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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Mar 23, 4:43 PM CSTTornado WarningDDCEdwards, Pawnee32 min
Mar 23, 5:47 PM CSTTornado WarningDDCStafford18 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.