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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 147, NWS Dodge City, KS

May 27, 2001Stafford County, Kansas

NWS Dodge City, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 27, 2001, 4:58 PM CDT for Stafford County, Kansas. It was in force for 62 min. 1 report came from inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named, with what was reported inside it.

The facts

Issued
May 27, 2001, 4:58 PM CDT (21:58 UTC)
Expired
May 27, 2001, 6:00 PM CDT
In force
62 min
Issued by
NWS Dodge City, KS
Area
Whole counties

County Stafford County, KS

What was reported inside it

TimeReportWhereRemark
May 27, 5:09 PM CDTHail 1.75St John, 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, 10.0 hours before the alert went out and 108 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Dodge City, at 12:00Z on 2001-05-27Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1039 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Dodge City, at 12:00Z on 2001-05-27The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 109 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
1039 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-103 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1347 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
51 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
109 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
131 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
2.6

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The text

The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
May 27, 3:38 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCFinney52 min
May 27, 3:43 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCScott47 min
May 27, 4:06 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCFinney39 min
May 27, 4:12 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCHodgeman48 min
May 27, 4:24 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCStanton51 min
May 27, 4:28 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCFord, Gray47 min
May 27, 4:37 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCScott53 min
May 27, 4:58 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCFinney32 min
May 27, 5:13 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCEdwards47 min
May 27, 5:14 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCFord, Gray, Hodgeman61 min
May 27, 5:26 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCFinney64 min
May 27, 5:36 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCPawnee29 min
May 27, 5:36 PM CDTTornado WarningDDCFord39 min
May 27, 5:43 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningDDCFinney, Ford, Gray, Hodgeman3 hr
May 27, 6:08 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCClark, Comanche, Kiowa, Meade67 min
May 27, 6:08 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCGrant, Haskell, Stevens67 min
May 27, 6:08 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCPratt67 min
May 27, 6:08 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCSeward67 min
May 27, 6:36 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCBarber39 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.