Alert archive / Kansas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2001
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 21, NWS Dodge City, KS
NWS Dodge City, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 6, 2001, 5:06 PM CDT for Morton County, Kansas. It was in force for 24 min. 4 reports 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
- Apr 6, 2001, 5:06 PM CDT (22:06 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 6, 2001, 5:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 24 min
- Issued by
- NWS Dodge City, KS
- Area
- Whole counties
County Morton County, KS
The radar
The Dodge City radar (KDDC), 173 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:06 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
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 6, 5:10 PM CDT | Tornado F2 | Rolla, KS | Rapidly moving tornado completely destroyed a mobile home. Female occupant ended up in some bushes and had a broken arm. Male occupant had debris in his eye. Their truck was rolled into trees and nearby outbuildings were demolished. Location of this home w |
| Apr 6, 5:16 PM CDT | Thunderstorm Wind 52 E | Elkhart, KS | |
| Apr 6, 5:28 PM CDT | Thunderstorm Wind 50 M | Rolla, KS | |
| Apr 6, 5:34 PM CDT | Thunderstorm Wind 56 M | Rolla, KS | Cimarron National Grasslands |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 6, 4:15 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 5 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 12:00Z, 10.1 hours before the alert went out and 180 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 2143 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 69 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 52 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 370 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.8
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WUUS53 KDDC 062207 SVRDDC KSC129-062230- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS 506 PM CDT FRI APR 6 2001 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN DODGE CITY HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... MORTON COUNTY IN KANSAS * UNTIL 530 PM CDT * AT 506 PM CDT...DODGE CITY DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 5 MILES WEST OF ELKHART...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 60 MPH. * SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED RICHFIELD AT 515 PM CDT THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM IS CAPABLE OF PRODUCING... HAIL THE SIZE OF QUARTERS DAMAGING WIND GREATER THAN 60 MILES AN HOUR A TORNADO WATCH IS ALSO IN EFFECT. REMEMBER...SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS CAN PRODUCE TORNADOES WITH LITTLE OR NO ADVANCE WARNING. KRUSE
The office that day
Everything else NWS Dodge City, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 6, 12:44 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Lane | 46 min |
| Apr 6, 4:35 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DDC | Hamilton, Stanton | 25 min |
| Apr 6, 5:01 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Hamilton | 14 min |
| Apr 6, 5:15 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Stanton | 45 min |
| Apr 6, 5:26 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Grant, Stevens | 64 min |
| Apr 6, 5:30 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Hamilton | 45 min |
| Apr 6, 5:35 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Kearny | 40 min |
| Apr 6, 5:39 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DDC | Grant, Stevens | 36 min |
| Apr 6, 5:58 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Finney, Haskell, Seward | 47 min |
| Apr 6, 5:58 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Scott | 47 min |
| Apr 6, 6:20 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Gray, Meade | 85 min |
| Apr 6, 6:54 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Clark, Ford, Hodgeman | 66 min |
| Apr 6, 6:54 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Finney | 66 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.