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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 101, NWS Dodge City, KS

May 8, 2001Pawnee County, Kansas

NWS Dodge City, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 8, 2001, 6:17 PM CDT for Pawnee County, Kansas. It was in force for 43 min. 3 reports 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: May 8, 2001, 6:17 PM CDT (23:17 UTC)
Expired: May 8, 2001, 7:00 PM CDT
In force: 43 min
Issued by: NWS Dodge City, KS
Area: Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

County Pawnee County, KS

The radar

The Dodge City radar (KDDC), 85 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:21 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
May 8, 6:30 PM CDT	Hail 0.75	Ash Valley, KS
May 8, 6:35 PM CDT	Hail 0.75	Ash Valley, KS
May 8, 7:08 PM CDT	Hail 0.75	Larned, 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, 11.3 hours before the alert went out and 80 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL: 1488 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 41 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 98 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 66 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
WUUS53 KDDC 082318
SVRDDC
KSC145-090000-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS
617 PM CDT TUE MAY 8 2001

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN DODGE CITY HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  PAWNEE COUNTY IN KANSAS

* UNTIL 700 PM CDT

* AT 617 PM CDT...4 MILES EAST OF ASH VALLEY...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 15
  MPH.

* SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED
  LARNED AT 625 PM CDT

THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM IS CAPABLE OF PRODUCING...
  HAIL THE SIZE OF QUARTERS
  DAMAGING WIND GREATER THAN 60 MILES AN HOUR
  VERY HEAVY RAINFALL WHICH MAY CAUSE LOCALIZED FLOODING

REMEMBER...SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS CAN PRODUCE TORNADOES WITH LITTLE o
OR NO ADVANCE WARNING.

LAT...LON 3833 9941 3810 9937 3808 9906 3811 9892
          3819 9896 3833 9911

16

The office that day

Everything else NWS Dodge City, KS issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 8, 4:32 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Rush	43 min
May 8, 5:18 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Rush	42 min
May 8, 6:01 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Rush	44 min
May 8, 6:58 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Pawnee	47 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.