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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 113, NWS Dodge City, KS

May 9, 2001Finney County, Kansas

NWS Dodge City, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 9, 2001, 6:15 PM CDT for Finney County, Kansas. It was in force for 45 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: May 9, 2001, 6:15 PM CDT (23:15 UTC)
Expired: May 9, 2001, 7:00 PM CDT
In force: 45 min
Issued by: NWS Dodge City, KS
Area: Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

County Finney County, KS

The radar

The Dodge City radar (KDDC), 66 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:18 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
May 9, 6:37 PM CDT	Hail 0.75	Garden City, 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 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, 11.3 hours before the alert went out and 71 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

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The text

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

509 
WUUS53 KDDC 092319
SVRDDC
KSC055-100000-

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

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN DODGE CITY HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  NORTHEASTERN FINNEY COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST KANSAS

* UNTIL 700 PM CDT

* AT 615 PM CDT...DODGE CITY DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE
  THUNDERSTORM 19 MILES WEST OF KALVESTA...OR ABOUT 17 MILES
  NORTHEAST OF GARDEN CITY...MOVING EAST AT 25 MPH.

* SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED
  KALVESTA AT 645 PM CDT,

THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM IS CAPABLE OF PRODUCING...
  HAIL THE SIZE OF PENNIES

LAT...LON 3822 10079 3798 10069 3803 10026 3824 10025

REITER

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, 5:42 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Scott	48 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

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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.