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Tornado Warning 11, NWS Dodge City, KS
NWS Dodge City, KS issued this tornado warning at Jul 20, 2000, 11:42 PM CDT for Pratt County, Kansas. It was in force for 33 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
- Jul 20, 2000, 11:42 PM CDT (04:42 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 21, 2000, 12:15 AM CDT
- In force
- 33 min
- Issued by
- NWS Dodge City, KS
- Area
- Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction
County Pratt County, KS
The radar
The Vance AFB radar (KVNX), 106 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 04:41 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
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 20, 11:47 PM CDT | Thunderstorm Wind 62 E | Pratt, KS | |
| Jul 21, 12:00 AM CDT | Thunderstorm Wind 74 E | Pratt, KS | Fifteen inch diameter tree limbs blown down. |
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 nearest sounding before it
Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 00:00Z, 4.7 hours before the alert went out and 112 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
- 2430 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -117 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1215 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 56 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 196 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 531 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 3.8
- Supercell composite
- 54.8
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
142 WFUS53 KDDC 210442 TORDDC KSC151-210515- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS 1142 PM CDT THU JUL 20 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN DODGE CITY HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... EASTERN PRATT COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL KANSAS * UNTIL 1215 AM CDT * AT 1142 PM CDT DODGE CITY DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A RAPIDLY ROTATING THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO 6 MILES NORTHEAST OF SAWYER...OR ABOUT 7 MILES SOUTHEAST OF PRATT...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 20 MPH. LAT...LON 3760 9878 3749 9869 3750 9850 3778 9850 NNNN 16
The office that day
Everything else NWS Dodge City, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 20, 9:28 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Pratt | 47 min |
| Jul 20, 9:43 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Ness | 47 min |
| Jul 20, 10:02 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Seward, Stevens | 43 min |
| Jul 20, 10:05 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Lane, Ness, Scott | 45 min |
| Jul 20, 10:13 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Pratt | 47 min |
| Jul 20, 10:20 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Hodgeman, Ness, Pawnee | 40 min |
| Jul 20, 10:20 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Stafford | 40 min |
| Jul 20, 10:20 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Rush | 40 min |
| Jul 20, 10:31 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Finney | 44 min |
| Jul 20, 10:45 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Gray | 45 min |
| Jul 20, 10:55 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Edwards | 50 min |
| Jul 20, 10:57 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Ness | 48 min |
| Jul 20, 11:01 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Pratt, Stafford | 44 min |
| Jul 20, 11:03 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Ford, Hodgeman | 42 min |
| Jul 20, 11:20 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DDC | Pratt | 20 min |
| Jul 20, 11:45 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Clark, Comanche, Kiowa | 45 min |
| Jul 20, 11:55 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | DDC | Pratt | 3 hr |
| Jul 21, 12:11 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Comanche | 49 min |
| Jul 21, 12:29 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Barber | 61 min |
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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.