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Severe Thunderstorm Watch 592

July 18, 200021 counties in Kansas

The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at Jul 18, 2000, 10:30 PM CDT for 21 counties in Kansas. It was in force for 6 hr.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued
Jul 18, 2000, 10:30 PM CDT (03:30 UTC)
Expired
Jul 19, 2000, 4:00 AM CDT
In force
6 hr
Issued by
the Storm Prediction Center
All 21 counties

Barton County, KS, Cloud County, KS, Ellis County, KS, Ellsworth County, KS, Graham County, KS, Hodgeman County, KS, Jewell County, KS, Lincoln County, KS, Mitchell County, KS, Ness County, KS, Osborne County, KS, Pawnee County, KS, Phillips County, KS, Republic County, KS, Rice County, KS, Rooks County, KS, Rush County, KS, Russell County, KS, Smith County, KS, Stafford County, KS, Trego County, KS

The radar

The Dodge City radar (KDDC), 121 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 03:31 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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Warnings issued inside it

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jul 18, 10:39 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGIDRooks51 min
Jul 18, 10:41 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCEllis, Trego64 min
Jul 18, 11:29 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGIDOsborne, Rooks61 min
Jul 18, 11:44 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningICTRussell61 min
Jul 19, 12:33 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningICTEllsworth57 min
Jul 19, 1:00 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningICTRice60 min

The nearest sounding before it

Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 00:00Z, 3.5 hours before the alert went out and 117 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 2000-07-19Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 2427 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 2000-07-19The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 24 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
2427 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-57 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
2047 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
29 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
24 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
66 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
2.7

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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
Jul 19, 1:30 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPCAllen, Anderson, Butler, Chase, Coffey, Dickinson and 20 more5 hr

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Watches in Kansas, 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.