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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 211, NWS Dodge City, KS

June 3, 2001Edwards County, Pawnee County, Kansas

NWS Dodge City, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 3, 2001, 3:53 AM CDT for Edwards County, Pawnee County, Kansas. It was in force for 67 min. 2 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
Jun 3, 2001, 3:53 AM CDT (08:53 UTC)
Expired
Jun 3, 2001, 5:00 AM CDT
In force
67 min
Issued by
NWS Dodge City, KS
Area
Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

Counties Edwards County, KS, Pawnee County, KS

The radar

The Dodge City radar (KDDC), 66 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 08:57 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
Jun 3, 3:56 AM CDTHail 0.75Sanford, KS
Jun 3, 4:30 AM CDTHail 0.75Kinsley, 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 nearest sounding before it

Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 00:00Z, 8.9 hours before the alert went out and 60 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 2001-06-03Temperature 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°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Dodge City, at 00:00Z on 2001-06-03The 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
1457 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
44 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
117 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
272 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.2

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The text

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

000 
WUUS53 KDDC 030856
SVRDDC

KSC047-145-031000-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS
353 AM CDT SUN JUN 3 2001

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN DODGE CITY HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  NORTHERN EDWARDS COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL KANSAS
  SOUTHERN PAWNEE COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL KANSAS

* UNTIL 500 AM CDT

* AT 353 AM CDT...DODGE CITY DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE        
  THUNDERSTORM 15 MILES SOUTHWEST OF SANFORD...MOVING EAST AT 25 MPH.

* SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED
  SANFORD AT 420 AM CDT
  GARFIELD AT 425 AM CDT
  FRIZELL AT 430 AM CDT
  ZOOK AT 440 AM CDT
  LARNED AT 445 AM CDT

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

STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS.

LAT...LON 3814 9957 3797 9957 3798 9902 3826 9903

COLEMAN/01

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 3, 2:59 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCHodgeman46 min
Jun 3, 4:51 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCStafford54 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.