Alert archive / Kansas / Tornado Warnings in 2000
Tornado Warning 2, NWS Dodge City, KS
NWS Dodge City, KS issued this tornado warning at Mar 23, 2000, 4:43 PM CST for Edwards County, Pawnee County, Kansas. It was in force for 32 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
- Mar 23, 2000, 4:43 PM CST (22:43 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 23, 2000, 5:15 PM CST
- In force
- 32 min
- Issued by
- NWS Dodge City, KS
- Area
- Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction
Counties Edwards County, KS, Pawnee County, KS
The radar
The Dodge City radar (KDDC), 67 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:46 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 23, 4:50 PM CST | Tornado F1 | Belpre, KS | Ten power poles were destroyed and two pivot spinklers were damaged. The tornado continued into Pawnee county at 454 PM. |
| Mar 23, 4:54 PM CST | Tornado F0 | Zook, KS | The tornado entered the county at 454 PM from Edwards county. Nothing in the path to damage in Pawnee county. |
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 12:00Z, 10.7 hours before the alert went out and 61 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
- 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
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WFUS53 KDDC 232244 TORDDC KSC047-145-232315- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS 443 PM CST THU MAR 23 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... NORTHERN EDWARDS COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL KANSAS SOUTHERN PAWNEE COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL KANSAS * UNTIL 515 PM CST * AT 443 PM CST DODGE CITY DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED AND SPOTTERS REPORTED A TORNADO 5 MILES NORTHWEST OF LEWIS. THE TORNADO WAS MOVING NORTH AT 25 MPH. * THE TORNADO WILL BE... 11 MILES WEST OF ZOOK BY 445 PM CST NEAR GARFIELD BY 450 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 THE LOWEST FLOOR OF A STURDY STRUCTURE. STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS. ABANDON MOBILE HOMES...WHICH OFFER NO PROTECTION FROM A TORNADO. LAT...LON 3797 9938 3787 9912 3808 9905 3812 9941 & DS NN@NN
The office that day
Everything else NWS Dodge City, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 23, 4:20 PM CST | Tornado Warning | DDC | Edwards | 25 min |
| Mar 23, 5:47 PM CST | Tornado Warning | DDC | Stafford | 18 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.