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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 112, NWS Dodge City, KS

May 9, 2001Scott County, Kansas

NWS Dodge City, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 9, 2001, 5:42 PM CDT for Scott County, Kansas. It was in force for 48 min. No storm report in the archive falls 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.

The facts

Issued: May 9, 2001, 5:42 PM CDT (22:42 UTC)
Expired: May 9, 2001, 6:30 PM CDT
In force: 48 min
Issued by: NWS Dodge City, KS
Area: Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

County Scott County, KS

The radar

The Goodland radar (KGLD), 115 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:44 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.

The watch it was issued in

The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.

Issued	Product	Office	Lasted
May 9, 5:15 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	4 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 12:00Z, 10.7 hours before the alert went out and 123 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: 955 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -139 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1161 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 27 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 109 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 102 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 1.1

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

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

000 
WUUS53 KDDC 092242
SVRDDC
KSC171-092330-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS
542 PM CDT WED MAY 9 2001

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN DODGE CITY HAS ISSUED A

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

* UNTIL 630 PM CDT

* AT 542 PM CDT...DODGE CITY DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE
  THUNDERSTORM 7 MILES SOUTH OF MODOC...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 20 MPH.

* SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED
  MODOC AT 550 PM CDT
  SCOTT CITY AT 605 PM CDT
  GRIGSTON AT 620 PM CDT
  MANNING AT 630 PM CDT

THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM IS CAPABLE OF PRODUCING...
  HAIL THE SIZE OF NICKELS
  WIND UP TO 60 MILES AN HOUR
  VERY FREQUENT AND DEADLY CLOUD-TO-GROUND LIGHTNING

THIS WARNING REPLACES THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING PREVIOUSLY
ISSUED.

FOR YOUR PROTECTION MOVE TO AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF
YOUR HOME OR BUSINESS. 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 3867 10110 3829 10107 3828 10071 3867 10073

BERRY

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 8, 7:42 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Edwards	48 min
May 8, 8:06 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Edwards	39 min
May 8, 8:32 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Kiowa	43 min
May 8, 9:15 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Comanche, Kiowa	60 min
May 9, 4:12 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Hamilton, Stanton	48 min
May 9, 4:35 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Stanton	25 min
May 9, 4:48 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Scott	57 min
May 9, 5:18 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Grant, Stevens	42 min
May 9, 5:30 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Lane	45 min
May 9, 6:15 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Finney	45 min
May 9, 6:17 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Lane	28 min
May 9, 6:44 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Lane	46 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Kansas, 2001 Every severe thunderstorm warning in 2001

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.