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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 201, NWS Dodge City, KS

June 1, 2001Pawnee County, Kansas

NWS Dodge City, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 1, 2001, 5:24 PM CDT for Pawnee County, Kansas. It was in force for 51 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
Jun 1, 2001, 5:24 PM CDT (22:24 UTC)
Expired
Jun 1, 2001, 6:15 PM CDT
In force
51 min
Issued by
NWS Dodge City, KS
Area
Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

County Pawnee County, KS

The radar

The Dodge City radar (KDDC), 88 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:28 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.

The watch it was issued in

The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.

IssuedProductOfficeLasted
Jun 1, 3:00 PM CDTTornado WatchSPC6 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 12:00Z, 10.4 hours before the alert went out and 82 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 2001-06-01Temperature 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 12:00Z on 2001-06-01The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 117 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
2025 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
47 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
117 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
120 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
-0.0

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The text

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

000 
WUUS53 KDDC 012225
SVRDDC

KSC145-012315-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS
524 PM CDT FRI JUN 1 2001

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN DODGE CITY HAS ISSUED A

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

* UNTIL 615 PM CDT.

* AT 524 PM CDT...DODGE CITY DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE
  THUNDERSTORM 4 MILES WEST OF ASH VALLEY...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 30
  MPH.

* SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED
  SANFORD AT 535 PM CDT
  FRIZELL AT 540 PM CDT
  LARNED AT 545 PM CDT
  ZOOK AT 600 PM CDT.

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

A TORNADO WATCH IS ALSO IN EFFECT. REMEMBER...SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS
CAN PRODUCE TORNADOES WITH LITTLE OR NO ADVANCE WARNING. FOR YOUR
PROTECTION MOVE TO AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF YOUR HOME
OR BUSINESS. REPORT SEVERE WEATHER TO THE NEAREST LAW ENFORCEMENT
AGENCY. THE3Y WILL RELAY YOUR REPORT TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE
FORECAST OFFICE IN DODGE CITY.

LAT...LON 3834 9911 3833 9945 3801 9930 3801 9892
          3814 9892

GERARD

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 1, 2:35 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCPawnee40 min
Jun 1, 3:18 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCPawnee42 min
Jun 1, 3:49 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCEdwards, Pawnee, Pratt, Stafford41 min
Jun 1, 3:58 PM CDTTornado WarningDDCEdwards32 min
Jun 1, 4:04 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCFinney, Lane, Scott41 min
Jun 1, 4:29 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCPratt, Stafford46 min
Jun 1, 4:42 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCFinney, Gray33 min
Jun 1, 5:13 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCStafford32 min
Jun 1, 5:18 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCFord, Gray, Hodgeman42 min
Jun 1, 5:52 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCEdwards, Hodgeman, Pawnee38 min
Jun 1, 6:00 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCFord45 min
Jun 1, 6:19 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCEdwards, Pawnee, Stafford41 min
Jun 1, 6:47 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCClark, Ford43 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.