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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 151, NWS Dodge City, KS

May 27, 2001Pawnee County, Kansas

NWS Dodge City, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 27, 2001, 5:36 PM CDT for Pawnee County, Kansas. It was in force for 29 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 27, 2001, 5:36 PM CDT (22:36 UTC)
Expired: May 27, 2001, 6:05 PM CDT
In force: 29 min
Issued by: NWS Dodge City, KS
Area: Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

County Pawnee County, KS

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 27, 3:30 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	6 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 12:00Z, 10.6 hours before the alert went out and 84 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: 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

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

496 
WUUS53 KDDC 272237
SVRDDC
KSC145-272305-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS
536 PM CDT SUN MAY 27 2001

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN DODGE CITY HAS ISSUED A

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

* UNTIL 605 PM CDT

* AT 536 PM CDT...DODGE CITY DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE   
THUNDERSTORM 5 MILES EAST OF ZOOK MOVING EAST AT 25 MPH.

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

STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS.

LAT...LON 3812 9910 3800 9912 3800 9892 3814 9890

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 27, 3:38 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Finney	52 min
May 27, 3:43 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Scott	47 min
May 27, 4:06 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Finney	39 min
May 27, 4:12 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Hodgeman	48 min
May 27, 4:24 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Stanton	51 min
May 27, 4:28 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Ford, Gray	47 min
May 27, 4:37 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Scott	53 min
May 27, 4:58 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Finney	32 min
May 27, 4:58 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Stafford	62 min
May 27, 5:13 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Edwards	47 min
May 27, 5:14 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Ford, Gray, Hodgeman	61 min
May 27, 5:26 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Finney	64 min
May 27, 5:36 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	DDC	Ford	39 min
May 27, 5:43 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	DDC	Finney, Ford, Gray, Hodgeman	3 hr
May 27, 6:08 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Clark, Comanche, Kiowa, Meade	67 min
May 27, 6:08 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Grant, Haskell, Stevens	67 min
May 27, 6:08 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Pratt	67 min
May 27, 6:08 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Seward	67 min
May 27, 6:36 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Barber	39 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.