Alert archive / Kansas / Tornado Watches in 2000
Tornado Watch 72
The Storm Prediction Center issued this tornado watch at Mar 7, 2000, 3:00 PM CST for 39 counties in Kansas. It was in force for 6 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Mar 7, 2000, 3:00 PM CST (21:00 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 7, 2000, 9:00 PM CST
- In force
- 6 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
All 39 counties
Cheyenne County, KS, Clark County, KS, Comanche County, KS, Decatur County, KS, Edwards County, KS, Ellis County, KS, Finney County, KS, Ford County, KS, Gove County, KS, Graham County, KS, Grant County, KS, Gray County, KS, Greeley County, KS, Hamilton County, KS, Haskell County, KS, Hodgeman County, KS, Kearny County, KS, Kiowa County, KS, Lane County, KS, Logan County, KS, Meade County, KS, Morton County, KS, Ness County, KS, Norton County, KS, Pawnee County, KS, Phillips County, KS, Rawlins County, KS, Rooks County, KS, Rush County, KS, Scott County, KS, Seward County, KS, Sheridan County, KS, Sherman County, KS, Stanton County, KS, Stevens County, KS, Thomas County, KS, Trego County, KS, Wallace County, KS, Wichita County, KS
The radar
The Dodge City radar (KDDC), 120 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:49 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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Warnings issued inside it
16 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 7, 3:03 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Cheyenne | 47 min |
| Mar 7, 3:19 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Morton, Stanton | 41 min |
| Mar 7, 3:39 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Hamilton | 36 min |
| Mar 7, 3:46 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Stevens | 44 min |
| Mar 7, 3:49 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Cheyenne | 61 min |
| Mar 7, 4:14 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Hamilton | 46 min |
| Mar 7, 4:22 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Grant, Haskell, Kearny | 53 min |
| Mar 7, 4:22 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Seward | 53 min |
| Mar 7, 4:32 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Sherman, Wallace | 48 min |
| Mar 7, 4:50 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Finney, Gray | 40 min |
| Mar 7, 4:50 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Meade | 40 min |
| Mar 7, 5:08 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Sherman | 47 min |
| Mar 7, 5:27 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Finney, Ford, Gray, Hodgeman | 48 min |
| Mar 7, 5:27 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Clark, Meade | 48 min |
| Mar 7, 6:07 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Comanche | 38 min |
| Mar 7, 6:27 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Kiowa | 33 min |
The nearest sounding before it
Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 12:00Z, 9.0 hours before the alert went out and 121 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
- 439 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -81 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 580 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 32 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 156 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 154 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.2
- Supercell composite
- 1.2
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WWUS9 KMKC 072028 MKC WW 072028 KSZ000-080300- URGENT - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED TORNADO WATCH NUMBER 72 STORM PREDICTION CENTER NORMAN OK 228 PM CST TUE MAR 7 2000 THE STORM PREDICTION CENTER HAS ISSUED A TORNADO WATCH FOR PORTIONS OF WESTERN KANSAS EFFECTIVE THIS TUESDAY AFTERNOON AND EVENING FROM 300 PM UNTIL 900 PM CST. TORNADOES...HAIL TO 2 INCHES IN DIAMETER...THUNDERSTORM WIND GUSTS TO 80 MPH...AND DANGEROUS LIGHTNING ARE POSSIBLE IN THESE AREAS. THE TORNADO WATCH AREA IS ALONG AND 80 STATUTE MILES EAST AND WEST OF A LINE FROM 60 MILES NORTHWEST OF HILL CITY KANSAS TO 25 MILES EAST OF LIBERAL KANSAS. REMEMBER...A TORNADO WATCH MEANS CONDITIONS ARE FAVORABLE FOR TORNADOES AND SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS IN AND CLOSE TO THE WATCH AREA. PERSONS IN THESE AREAS SHOULD BE ON THE LOOKOUT FOR THREATENING WEATHER CONDITIONS AND LISTEN FOR LATER STATEMENTS AND POSSIBLE WARNINGS. OTHER WATCH INFORMATION... CONTINUE...WW 68...WW 69...WW 70...WW 71... DISCUSSION...SURFACE LOW IS DEEPENING ERN CO AS COLD FRONT SURGES RAPIDLY NEWD ACROSS TX/OK PANHANDLES. INTENSIFYING LLJ INTO WRN KS WILL ENHANCE POTENTIAL FOR SUPERCELLS AND TORNADOS AS SQUALL LINE MOVES NEWD INTO THIS AREA. AVIATION...TORNADOES AND A FEW SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WITH HAIL SURFACE AND ALOFT TO 2 INCHES. EXTREME TURBULENCE AND SURFACE WIND GUSTS TO 70 KNOTS. A FEW CUMULONIMBI WITH MAXIMUM T2OPS TO 500. MEAN STORM MOTION VECTOR 21035. ...HALES ;395,0990 370,0990 370,1015 395,1020;
Nearby
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.