Alert archive / Kansas / Tornado Warnings in 2000
Tornado Warning 6, NWS Dodge City, KS
NWS Dodge City, KS issued this tornado warning at Jun 10, 2000, 7:14 PM CDT for Seward County, Kansas. It was in force for 16 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
- Jun 10, 2000, 7:14 PM CDT (00:14 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 10, 2000, 7:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 16 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), 97 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:17 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 00:00Z, 0.2 hours before the alert went out and 103 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
- 1888 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -7 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1741 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 22 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 40 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 31 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.9
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WFUS53 KDDC 110015 TORDDC KSC175-110030- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE 714 PM CDT SAT JUN 10 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... EASTERN SEWARD COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST KANSAS * UNTIL 730 PM CDT * AT 712 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A TORNADO OVER HAYNE...MOVING EAST AT 20 MPH. * LOCATIONS AFFECTED... HAYNE THIS REPLACES THE PREVIOUSLY ISSUED TORNADO WARNING FOR SEWARD COUNTY. 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 COVElR YOUR HEAD WITH YOUR HANDS. LAT...LON 3714 10094 3701 10065 3719 10065 3734 10071 REITER
The office that day
Everything else NWS Dodge City, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 10, 8:54 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Ford | 36 min |
| Jun 11, 6:24 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Morton | 51 min |
| Jun 11, 6:38 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Morton, Stanton | 52 min |
Nearby
Tornado Warnings in Kansas, 2000Every tornado warning in 2000Tornadoes 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.