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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 162, NWS Dodge City, KS

May 29, 2001Kearny County, Kansas

NWS Dodge City, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 29, 2001, 5:54 AM CDT for Kearny County, Kansas. It was in force for 66 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 29, 2001, 5:54 AM CDT (10:54 UTC)
Expired
May 29, 2001, 7:00 AM CDT
In force
66 min
Issued by
NWS Dodge City, KS
Area
Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

County Kearny County, KS

The nearest sounding before it

Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 00:00Z, 10.9 hours before the alert went out and 131 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 00:00Z on 2001-05-29Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 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 00:00Z on 2001-05-29The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 12 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 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
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
1792 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
53 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
12 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
81 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
-0.1

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The text

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

000 
WUUS53 KDDC 291054
SVRDDC
KSC093-291200-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS
554 AM CDT TUE MAY 29 2001

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN DODGE CITY HAS ISSUED A

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

* UNTIL 700 AM CDT

* AT 554 AM CDT...DODGE CITY DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE
  THUNDERSTORM 14 MILES WEST OF LAKIN...OR ABOUT OVER KENDALL...
  MOVING EAST AT 15 MPH.

* SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED
  LAKIN AT 635 AM CDT
  DEERFIELD AT 700 AM CDT

THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM IS CAPABLE OF PRODUCING...
  HAIL THE SIZE OF QUARTERS
  WIND UP TO 60 MILES AN HOUR

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 3804 10154 3778 10151 3780 10110 3824 10113

KRUSE

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
May 29, 4:16 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCStevens59 min
May 29, 4:29 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCMorton46 min
May 29, 4:53 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCHamilton67 min
May 29, 6:52 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCEllis, Trego53 min
May 29, 7:59 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCStafford46 min
May 29, 1:18 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCClark27 min
May 29, 1:49 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCClark26 min
May 29, 1:59 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCKiowa46 min
May 29, 2:31 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCGray44 min
May 29, 3:08 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCFinney52 min
May 29, 3:30 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCKearny60 min
May 29, 4:00 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCFinney30 min
May 29, 4:23 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCHamilton52 min
May 29, 4:33 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCFinney, Kearny42 min
May 29, 4:55 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningDDCFinney, Kearny3 hr
May 29, 4:56 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCFinney49 min
May 29, 5:15 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCKearny45 min
May 29, 5:17 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCHamilton43 min
May 29, 5:19 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCGray41 min
May 29, 5:44 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCFinney46 min
May 29, 5:58 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCKearny47 min
May 29, 5:58 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCGray47 min
May 29, 6:06 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCHaskell39 min
May 29, 6:20 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCFord, Hodgeman55 min
May 29, 6:50 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCMorton, Stevens55 min
May 29, 6:50 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCGrant55 min
May 29, 6:58 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCStanton17 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Kansas, 2001Every 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.