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Tornado Warning 9, NWS Dodge City, KS
NWS Dodge City, KS issued this tornado warning at Jun 23, 2000, 8:10 PM CDT for Lane County, Kansas. It was in force for 35 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
- Jun 23, 2000, 8:10 PM CDT (01:10 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 23, 2000, 8:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 35 min
- Issued by
- NWS Dodge City, KS
- Area
- Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction
County Lane County, KS
The radar
The Dodge City radar (KDDC), 97 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:15 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 23, 8:30 PM CDT | Thunderstorm Wind 52 E | Shields, KS | |
| Jun 23, 8:50 PM CDT | Hail 0.88 | Shields, KS |
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, 1.2 hours before the alert went out and 99 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
- 2642 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -57 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1525 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 45 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 105 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 251 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 1.4
- Supercell composite
- 19.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WFUS53 KDDC 240110 TORDDC KSC101-240145- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS 810 PM CDT FRI JUN 23 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN DODGE CITY HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... NORTHEASTERN LANE COUNTY IN WEST CENTRAL KANSAS * UNTIL 845 PM CDT * AT 810 PM CDT DODGE CITY DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A RAPIDLY ROTATING THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO 5 MILES EAST OF PENDENNIS...OR ABOUT 18 MILES NORTHEAST OF DIGHTON...MOVING SOUTHWEST AT 20 MPH. * SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED PENDENNIS AT 815 PM CDT SHIELDS AT 835 PM CDT LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING THUNDERSTORM WINDS ARE ALSO EXPECTED WITH THIS STORM. LAT...LON 3867 10050 3842 10044 3841 10025 3869 10026 SLEIGHTER NNNN
The office that day
Everything else NWS Dodge City, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 23, 7:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Trego | 60 min |
| Jun 23, 7:09 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Stevens | 51 min |
| Jun 23, 7:19 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Ness | 61 min |
| Jun 23, 7:31 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Rush | 59 min |
| Jun 23, 7:57 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Trego | 48 min |
| Jun 23, 8:17 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Ness, Rush | 58 min |
| Jun 23, 8:36 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Lane | 39 min |
| Jun 23, 8:55 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | DDC | Ness, Rush | 4 hr |
| Jun 23, 9:04 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Finney | 56 min |
| Jun 23, 9:10 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | DDC | Trego | 4 hr |
| Jun 23, 9:12 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Pawnee, Rush | 63 min |
| Jun 23, 9:16 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Lane, Ness | 44 min |
| Jun 23, 9:16 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Hodgeman | 44 min |
| Jun 23, 9:59 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Hodgeman | 46 min |
| Jun 23, 10:13 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Edwards, Pawnee | 47 min |
| Jun 23, 10:31 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Ford | 44 min |
| Jun 23, 10:52 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Kiowa | 38 min |
| Jun 23, 11:06 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Ford, Gray | 49 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.