Alert archive / Kansas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2001
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 17, NWS Dodge City, KS
NWS Dodge City, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 14, 2001, 8:48 PM CST for Barber County, Pratt County, Kansas. It was in force for 42 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
- Mar 14, 2001, 8:48 PM CST (02:48 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 14, 2001, 9:30 PM CST
- In force
- 42 min
- Issued by
- NWS Dodge City, KS
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Barber County, KS, Pratt County, KS
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 14, 9:08 PM CST | Hail 1 | Medicine Lodge, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 14, 7:15 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 00:00Z, 2.8 hours before the alert went out and 111 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 166 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -46 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1611 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 44 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -40 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 61 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- -0.0
- Supercell composite
- -0.1
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WUUS53 KDDC 150249 SVRDDC KSC007-151-150330- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS 848 PM CST WED MAR 14 2001 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN DODGE CITY HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... NORTHERN BARBER COUNTY IN KANSAS PRATT COUNTY IN KANSAS * UNTIL 930 PM CST * AT 848 PM CST...DODGE CITY DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 3 MILES SOUTH OF SAWYER...MOVING EAST AT 30 MPH. * SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED ISABEL AT 900 PM CST CAIRO AT 905 PM CST PRESTON AT 910 PM CST THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM IS CAPABLE OF PRODUCING... HAIL THE SIZE OF NICKELS LAT...LON 3736 9896 3736 984o5 3780 9849 3782 9901 REITER
The office that day
Everything else NWS Dodge City, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 14, 6:18 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Gray | 42 min |
| Mar 14, 6:27 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Hodgeman | 48 min |
| Mar 14, 6:36 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Ford | 39 min |
| Mar 14, 6:38 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Finney, Gray, Haskell | 52 min |
| Mar 14, 7:16 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Clark, Ford, Meade | 59 min |
| Mar 14, 7:30 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Gray | 30 min |
| Mar 14, 7:31 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Barber, Pratt | 44 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.