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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 182, NWS Dodge City, KS

May 29, 2001Ford County, Hodgeman County, Kansas

NWS Dodge City, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 29, 2001, 6:20 PM CDT for Ford County, Hodgeman County, Kansas. It was in force for 55 min. 10 reports 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 29, 2001, 6:20 PM CDT (23:20 UTC)
Expired
May 29, 2001, 7:15 PM CDT
In force
55 min
Issued by
NWS Dodge City, KS
Area
Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

Counties Ford County, KS, Hodgeman County, KS

The radar

The Dodge City radar (KDDC), 21 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:23 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

TimeReportWhereRemark
May 29, 6:52 PM CDTHail 1Dodge City, KS
May 29, 6:55 PM CDTHail 1Dodge City, KS
May 29, 6:55 PM CDTHail 1Dodge City, KS
May 29, 6:55 PM CDTHail 1.75Dodge City, KS
May 29, 6:55 PM CDTHail 1.75Dodge City, KS
May 29, 6:56 PM CDTHail 1.75Dodge City, KS
May 29, 7:00 PM CDTHail 1.75Dodge City, KS
May 29, 7:00 PM CDTThunderstorm Wind 87 EFt Dodge, KSSeveral trees uprooted and crashed into buildings. Many large tree limbs down. One pivot irrigation sprinkler destroyed 1 e of Fort Dodge.
May 29, 7:05 PM CDTHail 2Dodge City, KS
May 29, 7:25 PM CDTHail 1.5Dodge 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.

IssuedProductOfficeLasted
May 29, 2:00 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPC5 hr
May 29, 4:45 PM CDTTornado WatchSPC6 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 12:00Z, 11.3 hours before the alert went out and 20 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 2001-05-29Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 616 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 2001-05-29The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 270 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
616 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-181 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
777 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
27 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
270 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
441 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.

232 
WUUS53 KDDC 292321
SVRDDC
KSC057-083-300015-

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

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN DODGE CITY HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  FORD COUNTY IN KANSAS
  HODGEMAN COUNTY IN KANSAS

* UNTIL 715 PM CDT

* AT 619 PM CDT...DODGE CITY DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED SEVERE 
  THUNDERSTORMS ALONG A LINE EXTENDING FROM 16 MILES NORTHWEST OF
  JETMORE TO 16 MILES NORTHWEST OF DODGE CITY TO 21 MILES WEST OF
  DODGE CITY...MOVING EAST AT 25 MPH.

* SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED
  JETMORE BY 635 PM CDT
  DODGE CITY BY 635 PM CDT
  WRIGHT BY 645 PM CDT

THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS ARE CAPABLE OF PRODUCING...
  HAIL THE SIZE OF NICKELS
  DESTRUCTIVE WIND UP TO 80 MILES AN HOUR
  VERY HEAVY RAINFALL WHICH MAY CAUSE LOCALIZED FLOODING
  VERY FREQUENT AND DEADLY CLOUD-TO-GROUND LIGHTNING

A TORNADO WATCH IS ALSO IN EFFECT. REMEMBER...SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS
CAN PRODUCE TORNADOES WITH LITTLE OR NO ADVANCE WARNING.

LAT...LON 3823 10016 3757 10017 3752 9959 3821 9959

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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, 5:54 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCKearny66 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, 6:50 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.