Alert archive / Kansas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2001
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 239, NWS Dodge City, KS
NWS Dodge City, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 13, 2001, 11:35 PM CDT for Ness County, Kansas. It was in force for 25 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 13, 2001, 11:35 PM CDT (04:35 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 14, 2001, 12:00 AM CDT
- In force
- 25 min
- Issued by
- NWS Dodge City, KS
- Area
- Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction
County Ness County, KS
The radar
The Dodge City radar (KDDC), 96 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 04:36 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 13, 11:40 PM CDT | Hail 1 | Ransom, KS | |
| Jun 13, 11:40 PM CDT | Thunderstorm Wind 60 E | Ransom, 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 13, 6:45 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 5 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 00:00Z, 4.6 hours before the alert went out and 94 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
- 901 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -65 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 2625 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 55 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 85 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 325 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 6.1
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WUUS53 KDDC 140437 SVRDDC KSC135-140500- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS 1135 PM CDT WED JUN 13 2001 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN DODGE CITY HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... NORTHERN NESS COUNTY IN KANSAS * UNTIL MIDNIGHT CDT * AT 1135 PM CDT...DODGE CITY DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 5 MILES SOUTHEAST OF RANSOM...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 35 MPH. * SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED RURAL RESIDENTS OF NORTHERN NESS COUNTY THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM IS CAPABLE OF PRODUCING... HAIL THE SIZE OF NICKELS WIND UP TO 60 MILES AN HOUR A TORNADO WATCH IS ALSO IN EFFECT. REMEMBER...SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS CAN PRODUCE TORNADOES WITH LITTLE OR NO ADVANCE WARNING. LAT...LON 3860 10002 3852 9975 3869 9962 3868 9994 KRUSE
The office that day
Everything else NWS Dodge City, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 13, 8:42 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Hodgeman | 48 min |
| Jun 13, 8:56 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Ness, Pawnee, Rush | 64 min |
| Jun 13, 9:04 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DDC | Hodgeman | 26 min |
| Jun 13, 9:13 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DDC | Pawnee | 32 min |
| Jun 13, 9:21 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Finney, Hodgeman, Ness | 54 min |
| Jun 13, 9:24 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DDC | Rush | 36 min |
| Jun 13, 9:54 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DDC | Hodgeman | 36 min |
| Jun 13, 9:59 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DDC | Rush | 31 min |
| Jun 13, 10:09 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Ness | 66 min |
| Jun 13, 10:10 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Ellis | 65 min |
| Jun 13, 10:14 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DDC | Ellis | 31 min |
| Jun 13, 10:19 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DDC | Ness | 41 min |
| Jun 13, 10:59 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Ellis, Rush | 61 min |
| Jun 13, 11:13 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Trego | 47 min |
| Jun 13, 11:55 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Ellis | 50 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.