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Severe Thunderstorm Watch 498

June 25, 200041 counties in Kansas

The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at Jun 25, 2000, 3:15 PM CDT for 41 counties in Kansas. It was in force for 7 hr.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued
Jun 25, 2000, 3:15 PM CDT (20:15 UTC)
Expired
Jun 25, 2000, 10:00 PM CDT
In force
7 hr
Issued by
the Storm Prediction Center
All 41 counties

Barton County, KS, Brown County, KS, Clay County, KS, Cloud County, KS, Decatur County, KS, Dickinson County, KS, Ellis County, KS, Ellsworth County, KS, Geary County, KS, Gove County, KS, Graham County, KS, Greeley County, KS, Jewell County, KS, Lane County, KS, Lincoln County, KS, Logan County, KS, Marion County, KS, Marshall County, KS, McPherson County, KS, Mitchell County, KS, Morris County, KS, Nemaha County, KS, Ness County, KS, Norton County, KS, Osborne County, KS, Ottawa County, KS, Phillips County, KS, Pottawatomie County, KS, Republic County, KS, Rice County, KS, Riley County, KS, Rooks County, KS, Rush County, KS, Russell County, KS, Saline County, KS, Scott County, KS, Sheridan County, KS, Smith County, KS, Trego County, KS, Washington County, KS, Wichita County, KS

The radar

The Dodge City radar (KDDC), 146 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:16 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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Warnings issued inside it

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 25, 3:31 PM CDTTornado WarningGIDPhillips44 min
Jun 25, 3:44 PM CDTTornado WarningGLDGreeley31 min
Jun 25, 4:14 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGLDSheridan61 min
Jun 25, 4:24 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGLDGraham66 min
Jun 25, 5:24 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCTrego51 min
Jun 25, 6:35 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningTOPBrown, Nemaha3 hr
Jun 25, 7:36 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCNess24 min
Jun 25, 7:56 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCRush49 min
Jun 25, 7:59 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningDDCNess, Rush3 hr
Jun 25, 8:00 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCNess30 min
Jun 25, 8:09 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTOPClay, Ottawa51 min
Jun 25, 8:32 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCNess18 min
Jun 25, 9:44 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningICTRice61 min
Jun 25, 9:54 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningICTMcPherson66 min

The nearest sounding before it

Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 12:00Z, 8.3 hours before the alert went out and 143 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 12:00Z on 2000-06-25Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1510 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 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 12:00Z on 2000-06-25The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -46 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 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
1510 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-146 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1219 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
12 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-46 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
-43 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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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
Jun 25, 5:45 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPCAtchison, Brown, Chase, Coffey, Doniphan, Douglas and 12 more4 hr
Jun 25, 6:00 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPCClark, Finney, Ford, Grant, Gray, Hamilton and 8 more4 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.