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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 231, NWS Dodge City, KS
NWS Dodge City, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 12, 2001, 7:32 PM CDT for Ford County, Gray County, Kansas. It was in force for 43 min. 1 report 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 12, 2001, 7:32 PM CDT (00:32 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 12, 2001, 8:15 PM CDT
- In force
- 43 min
- Issued by
- NWS Dodge City, KS
- Area
- Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction
Counties Ford County, KS, Gray County, KS
The radar
The Dodge City radar (KDDC), 35 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:36 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 12, 7:45 PM CDT | Hail 1.25 | Ensign, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 12, 5:30 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 00:00Z, 0.5 hours before the alert went out and 41 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
- 3901 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -65 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1912 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 25 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 165 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 330 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.3
- Supercell composite
- 19.2
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WUUS53 KDDC 130034 SVRDDC KSC057-069-130115- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS 732 PM CDT TUE JUN 12 2001 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN DODGE CITY HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... WESTERN FORD COUNTY... EASTERN GRAY COUNTY IN KANSAS * UNTIL 815 PM CDT * AT 732 PM CDT...DODGE CITY DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 10 MILES SOUTHEAST OF MONTEZUMA...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 30 MPH. * SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED THE HAGGARD ELEV AT 745 PM CDT ENSIGN AT 800 PM CDT THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM IS CAPABLE OF PRODUCING... HAIL THE SIZE OF PENNIES WIND UP TO 60 MILES AN HOUR STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS. REPORT SEVERE WEATHER TO THE NEAREST LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCY. THEY WILL RELAY YOUR REPORT TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORECAST OFFICE IN DODGE CITY. LAT...LON 3748 10048 3749 10010 3784 10010 3781 10045 BURGERT/
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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.