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Tornado Warning 5, NWS Dodge City, KS
NWS Dodge City, KS issued this tornado warning at Jun 10, 2000, 6:47 PM CDT for Seward County, Kansas. It was in force for 28 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 10, 2000, 6:47 PM CDT (23:47 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 10, 2000, 7:15 PM CDT
- In force
- 28 min
- Issued by
- NWS Dodge City, KS
- Area
- Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction
County Seward County, KS
The radar
The Dodge City radar (KDDC), 102 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:46 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 10, 7:00 PM CDT | Thunderstorm Wind | Hayne, KS | Mobile home blown over onto a truck. |
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, 11.8 hours before the alert went out and 107 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
- 371 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -272 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 866 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 5 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 17 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 207 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.1
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
895 WFUS53 KDDC 102349 TORDDC KSC175-110015- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE 647 PM CDT SAT JUN 10 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... SEWARD COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST KANSAS * UNTIL 715 PM CDT * AT 641 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A TORNADO 3 MILES NORTH OF LIBERAL MOVING NORTH AT 5 MPH. * LOCATION AFFECTED... RURAL AREAS NORTH OF LIBERAL IF YOU ARE CAUGHT OUTSIDE...SEEK SHELTER IN A NEARBY REINFORCED BUILDING. AS A LAST RESORT...SEEK SHELTER IN A CULVERT...DITCH OR LOW SPOT AND COVER YOUR HEAD WITH YOUR HANDS. THE SAFEST PLACE TO BE DURING A TORNADO IS IN A BASEMENT. GET UNDER A WORKBENCH OR OTHER PIECE OF STURDY FURNITURE. IF NO BASEMENT IS AVAILABLE...SEEK SHELTER ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF THE BUILDING IN AN INTERIOR HALLWAY OR ROOM SUCH AS A CLOSET. USE BLANKETS OR PILLOWS TO COVER YOUR BODY AND ALWAYS STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS. IF IN MOBILE HOMES OR VEHICLES...EVACUATE THEM AND GET INSIDE A SUBSTANTIAL SHELTER. IF NO SHELTER IS AVAILABLE...LIE FLAT IN THE NEAREST DITCH OR OTHER LOW SPOT AND COVER YOUR HEAD WITH YOUR HANDS. LAT...LON 3715 10102 3703 10086 3721 10064 3738 10077 REITER
The office that day
Everything else NWS Dodge City, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 9, 7:16 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Finney | 29 min |
| Jun 9, 8:16 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Ness | 29 min |
| Jun 10, 4:56 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Stevens | 49 min |
| Jun 10, 5:46 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Stevens | 29 min |
| Jun 10, 5:51 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Morton | 39 min |
| Jun 10, 6:18 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Seward, Stevens | 42 min |
| Jun 10, 6:57 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Haskell | 48 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.