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Severe Thunderstorm Watch 504

June 25, 200023 counties in Kansas; 10 counties in Oklahoma; 10 counties in Texas

The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at Jun 25, 2000, 10:00 PM CDT for 23 counties in Kansas; 10 counties in Oklahoma; 10 counties in Texas. It was in force for 5 hr.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued
Jun 25, 2000, 10:00 PM CDT (03:00 UTC)
Expired
Jun 26, 2000, 3:00 AM CDT
In force
5 hr
Issued by
the Storm Prediction Center
All 43 counties

Barber County, KS, Butler County, KS, Clark County, KS, Comanche County, KS, Cowley County, KS, Edwards County, KS, Ford County, KS, Harper County, KS, Harvey County, KS, Kingman County, KS, Kiowa County, KS, Marion County, KS, McPherson County, KS, Meade County, KS, Morton County, KS, Pratt County, KS, Reno County, KS, Rice County, KS, Sedgwick County, KS, Seward County, KS, Stafford County, KS, Stevens County, KS, Sumner County, KS, Alfalfa County, OK, Beaver County, OK, Ellis County, OK, Grant County, OK, Harper County, OK, Kay County, OK, Major County, OK, Texas County, OK, Woods County, OK, Woodward County, OK, Carson County, TX, Hansford County, TX, Hemphill County, TX, Hutchinson County, TX, Lipscomb County, TX, Moore County, TX, Ochiltree County, TX, Potter County, TX, Roberts County, TX, Sherman County, TX

The radar

The Dodge City radar (KDDC), 77 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 03:00 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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Warnings issued inside it

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 25, 10:18 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningDDCKiowa, Pratt3 hr
Jun 25, 10:41 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningICTReno49 min
Jun 25, 10:55 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCBarber35 min
Jun 25, 11:05 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningICTHarper, Kingman55 min
Jun 25, 11:39 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningICTSedgwick66 min
Jun 26, 12:16 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningICTCowley, Sedgwick, Sumner44 min
Jun 26, 12:21 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningICTButler, Sedgwick3 hr
Jun 26, 12:57 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOUNKay48 min

The nearest sounding before it

Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 00:00Z, 3.0 hours before the alert went out and 77 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 2000-06-26Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 2723 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 00:00Z on 2000-06-26The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 40 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
2723 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-50 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1226 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
31 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
40 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
85 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
3.8

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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, 10:00 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPCAllen, Anderson, Bourbon, Chase, Chautauqua, Cherokee and 15 more5 hr

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Watches in Kansas, 2000Severe Thunderstorm Watches in Oklahoma, 2000Severe Thunderstorm Watches in Texas, 2000Every severe thunderstorm watch 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.