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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 23, NWS Dodge City, KS

April 6, 2001Grant County, Stevens County, Kansas

NWS Dodge City, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 6, 2001, 5:26 PM CDT for Grant County, Stevens County, Kansas. It was in force for 64 min. 6 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, 5:26 PM CDT (22:26 UTC)
Expired
Apr 6, 2001, 6:30 PM CDT
In force
64 min
Issued by
NWS Dodge City, KS
Area
Whole counties

Counties Grant County, KS, Stevens County, KS

The radar

The Dodge City radar (KDDC), 126 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:29 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
Apr 6, 5:38 PM CDTTornado F1Hugoton, KSTornado destroyed two pivot irrigation sprinklers and crossed into Grant county at 1647.
Apr 6, 5:47 PM CDTTornado F2Ulysses, KSTornado crossed into Grant county from Stevens county at 1647. Three pivot sprinklers were destroyed, 2 grain bins, a silo, machine shed and horse trailer were also damaged or destroyed. A roof was taken off a building and an empty rail car was overturned.
Apr 6, 5:56 PM CDTThunderstorm Wind 52 EUlysses, KS
Apr 6, 5:56 PM CDTHail 0.75Ulysses, KS
Apr 6, 6:05 PM CDTHail 1.75Woods, KS
Apr 6, 6:05 PM CDTThunderstorm Wind 52 EWoods, 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
Apr 6, 4:15 PM CDTTornado WatchSPC5 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 12:00Z, 10.4 hours before the alert went out and 132 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 2001-04-06Temperature 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 2001-04-06The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 52 square meters per square second.1939587897Sfc1 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
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 062226
SVRDDC
KSC067-189-062330-

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

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN DODGE CITY HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  GRANT COUNTY IN KANSAS
  STEVENS COUNTY IN KANSAS

* UNTIL 630 PM CDT

* AT 526 PM CDT...DODGE CITY DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A LINE OF SEVERE
  THUNDERSTORMS ALONG A LINE EXTENDING FROM 12 MILES WEST OF ULYSSES
  TO 10 MILES SOUTH OF FETERITA...OR ALONG A LINE EXTENDING FROM BIG
  BOW TO 9 MILES SOUTHEAST OF ROLLA...MOVING EAST AT 20 MPH.

* SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED
  HUGOTON AT 550 PM CDT
  ULYSSES AT 555 PM CDT
  HICKOK AT 610 PM CDT
  MOSCOW AT 615 PM CDT
  CAVE AT 625 PM CDT

THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS ARE CAPABLE OF PRODUCING...
  HAIL THE SIZE OF QUARTERS
  DAMAGING WIND GREATER THAN 60 MILES AN HOUR

A TORNADO WATCH IS ALSO IN EFFECT. REMEMBER...SCEVERE 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.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Apr 6, 12:44 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCLane46 min
Apr 6, 4:35 PM CDTTornado WarningDDCHamilton, Stanton25 min
Apr 6, 5:01 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCHamilton14 min
Apr 6, 5:06 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCMorton24 min
Apr 6, 5:15 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCStanton45 min
Apr 6, 5:30 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCHamilton45 min
Apr 6, 5:35 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCKearny40 min
Apr 6, 5:39 PM CDTTornado WarningDDCGrant, Stevens36 min
Apr 6, 5:58 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCFinney, Haskell, Seward47 min
Apr 6, 5:58 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCScott47 min
Apr 6, 6:20 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCGray, Meade85 min
Apr 6, 6:54 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCClark, Ford, Hodgeman66 min
Apr 6, 6:54 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCFinney66 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.