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Tornado Warning 8, NWS Dodge City, KS

June 23, 2000Trego County, Kansas

NWS Dodge City, KS issued this tornado warning at Jun 23, 2000, 6:32 PM CDT for Trego County, Kansas. It was in force for 28 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 23, 2000, 6:32 PM CDT (23:32 UTC)
Expired: Jun 23, 2000, 7:00 PM CDT
In force: 28 min
Issued by: NWS Dodge City, KS
Area: Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

County Trego County, KS

The watch it was issued in

The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.

Issued	Product	Office	Lasted
Jun 23, 6:00 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	5 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 12:00Z, 11.5 hours before the alert went out and 124 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 908 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -142 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1296 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 19 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 59 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 27 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.

761 
WFUS53 KDDC 232334
TORDDC
KSC195-240000-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS
632 PM CDT FRI JUN 23 2000

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN DODGE CITY HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  EASTERN TREGO COUNTY IN WEST CENTRAL KANSAS

* UNTIL 700 PM CDT

* AT 632 PM CDT DODGE CITY DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A RAPIDLY ROTATING
  THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO 6 MILES SOUTHEAST OF
  TREGO CENTER...OR ABOUT 5 MILES NORTHWEST OF CEDAR BLUFF...MOVING
  NORTHEAST AT 20 MPH.

* SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED
  RURAL RESIDENTS OF TREGO COUNTY BETWEEN CEDAR BLUFF RESERVOIR AND  
  TREGO CENTER.

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 3884 9996 3871 9980 3896 9960 3906 9967

01/SLEIGHTER

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 22, 7:37 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Hamilton	38 min
Jun 22, 8:12 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Hamilton, Kearny	63 min
Jun 23, 5:16 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Trego	44 min
Jun 23, 6:05 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Trego	40 min
Jun 23, 6:15 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Ford, Meade	45 min
Jun 23, 6:18 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	DDC	Trego	3 hr
Jun 23, 6:41 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Ellis	64 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.