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Severe Thunderstorm Watch 368

May 26, 200039 counties in Kansas

The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at May 26, 2000, 7:15 PM CDT for 39 counties in Kansas. It was in force for 6 hr.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued
May 26, 2000, 7:15 PM CDT (00:15 UTC)
Expired
May 27, 2000, 1:00 AM CDT
In force
6 hr
Issued by
the Storm Prediction Center
All 39 counties

Barber County, KS, Barton County, KS, Clark County, KS, Comanche County, KS, Decatur County, KS, Edwards County, KS, Ellis County, KS, Ellsworth County, KS, Finney County, KS, Ford County, KS, Gove County, KS, Graham County, KS, Gray County, KS, Haskell County, KS, Hodgeman County, KS, Jewell County, KS, Kingman County, KS, Kiowa County, KS, Lane County, KS, Lincoln County, KS, Meade County, KS, Mitchell County, KS, Ness County, KS, Norton County, KS, Osborne County, KS, Pawnee County, KS, Phillips County, KS, Pratt County, KS, Reno County, KS, Republic County, KS, Rice County, KS, Rooks County, KS, Rush County, KS, Russell County, KS, Seward County, KS, Sheridan County, KS, Smith County, KS, Stafford County, KS, Trego County, KS

The radar

The Dodge City radar (KDDC), 51 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:04 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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Warnings issued inside it

15 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
May 26, 7:30 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGIDRooks45 min
May 26, 7:31 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGLDGove, Logan59 min
May 26, 7:38 PM CDTTornado WarningGIDPhillips, Rooks52 min
May 26, 8:02 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGLDGraham58 min
May 26, 8:05 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGIDOsborne40 min
May 26, 8:13 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCFinney47 min
May 26, 8:29 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCTrego46 min
May 26, 10:22 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCClark, Ford38 min
May 26, 10:24 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningICTRice36 min
May 26, 10:42 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningICTReno63 min
May 26, 10:44 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCKiowa46 min
May 26, 10:57 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningICTMcPherson, Rice63 min
May 26, 11:18 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningICTKingman57 min
May 27, 12:06 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCComanche39 min
May 27, 12:44 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCClark, Ford, Meade46 min

The nearest sounding before it

Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 00:00Z, 0.3 hours before the alert went out and 47 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Dodge City, at 00:00Z on 2000-05-27Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1756 joules per kilogram.LCLEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Dodge City, at 00:00Z on 2000-05-27The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 65 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
1756 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-8 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1985 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
40 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
65 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
118 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
5.5

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The text

The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.

SPC that day

Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
May 26, 11:00 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPCAllen, Anderson, Bourbon, Butler, Chase, Chautauqua and 21 more6 hr

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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.