Alert archive / Kansas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2001
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 1, NWS Dodge City, KS
NWS Dodge City, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 10, 2001, 3:10 PM CST for Seward County, Kansas. It was in force for 35 min. 1 report came from inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The outline the Iowa Environmental Mesonet reconstructed for it; the warning itself named whole counties, with what was reported inside it.
The facts
- Issued
- Mar 10, 2001, 3:10 PM CST (21:10 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 10, 2001, 3:45 PM CST
- In force
- 35 min
- Issued by
- NWS Dodge City, KS
- Area
- Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction
County Seward County, KS
The radar
The Dodge City radar (KDDC), 106 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:12 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 10, 3:40 PM CST | Hail 0.75 | Kismet, KS |
NCEI Storm Data entries that began inside the alert's area while it was in force. Before 2003 the local storm report archive is thin, so this is the record of what happened rather than what was phoned in.
The nearest sounding before it
Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 12:00Z, 9.2 hours before the alert went out and 112 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 994 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 24 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 159 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 140 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
381 WUUS53 KDDC 102111 SVRDDC KSC175-102200- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS 310 PM CST SAT MAR 10 2001 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN DODGE CITY HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... SOUTHERN SEWARD COUNTY IN KANSAS * UNTIL 345 PM CST * AT 310 PM CST...RADAR INDICATED AND SPOTTERS REPORTED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM OVER HAYNE...MOVING EAST NORTHEAST AT 35 MPH. * SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED KISMET AT 325 PM CST THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM IS CAPABLE OF PRODUCING... HAIL THE SIZE OF PENNIES WIND UP TO 60 MILES AN HOUR STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS. REPORT SEVERE WEATHER TO THE NEAREST LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCY. THEY WILL RELAY YOUR REPORT TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORECAST OFFICE IN DODGE CITY. LAT...LON 3722 10105 3701 10104 3701 10064 3724 10064 GERARD
The office that day
Everything else NWS Dodge City, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 10, 3:35 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Meade | 40 min |
| Mar 10, 3:49 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Seward | 31 min |
| Mar 10, 4:15 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Clark, Meade | 45 min |
| Mar 10, 4:25 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Gray, Meade | 50 min |
| Mar 10, 5:04 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Clark, Meade | 41 min |
| Mar 10, 5:25 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Meade | 35 min |
| Mar 10, 5:46 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Clark | 44 min |
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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.