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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 22, NWS Dodge City, KS

April 6, 2001Stanton County, Kansas

NWS Dodge City, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 6, 2001, 5:15 PM CDT for Stanton County, Kansas. It was in force for 45 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: Apr 6, 2001, 5:15 PM CDT (22:15 UTC)
Expired: Apr 6, 2001, 6:00 PM CDT
In force: 45 min
Issued by: NWS Dodge City, KS
Area: Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

County Stanton County, KS

The radar

The Dodge City radar (KDDC), 167 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:18 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, 5:17 PM CDT	Hail 1	Manter, KS
Apr 6, 5:40 PM CDT	Hail 0.75	Johnson, 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
Apr 6, 4:15 PM CDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	5 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 12:00Z, 10.3 hours before the alert went out and 173 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 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

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The text

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

000 
WUUS53 KDDC 062215
SVRDDC
KSC187-062300-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS
515 PM CDT FRI APR 6 2001

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN DODGE CITY HAS ISSUED A

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

* UNTIL 600 PM CDT

* AT 515 PM CDT...DODGE CITY DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE
  THUNDERSTORM 3 MILES SOUTHWEST OF MANTER...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 60
  MPH.

* SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED
  JOHNSON CITY AT 520 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 THU/NDERSTORMS
CAN PRODUCE TORNADOES WITH LITTLE OR NO ADVANCE WARNING.

LAT...LON 3750 10204 3739 10185 3773 10154 3773 10180

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, 5:06 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Morton	24 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.