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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 243, NWS Dodge City, KS
NWS Dodge City, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 16, 2001, 5:13 PM CDT for Comanche County, Kansas. It was in force for 47 min. 3 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 16, 2001, 5:13 PM CDT (22:13 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 16, 2001, 6:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 47 min
- Issued by
- NWS Dodge City, KS
- Area
- Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction
County Comanche County, KS
The radar
The Dodge City radar (KDDC), 74 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:15 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 16, 5:50 PM CDT | Hail 0.75 | Protection, KS | |
| Jun 16, 5:55 PM CDT | Hail 0.88 | Coldwater, KS | |
| Jun 16, 6:04 PM CDT | Hail 1.75 | Protection, 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 12:00Z, 10.2 hours before the alert went out and 71 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
- 358 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -484 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1601 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 34 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 439 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 462 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.6
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
313 WUUS53 KDDC 162216 CCA SVRDDC KSC033-162300- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING...CORRECTED FOR TIMING AT COLDWATER NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS 513 PM CDT SAT JUN 16 2001 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN DODGE CITY HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... COMANCHE COUNTY IN KANSAS * UNTIL 600 PM CDT * AT 513 PM CDT...DODGE CITY DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A LINE OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS ALONG A LINE EXTENDING FROM 11 MILES NORTH OF PROTECTION TO 4 MILES NORTHWEST OF PROTECTION...MOVING EAST AT 20 MPH. * SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED LAKE COLDWATER AT 540 PM CDT COLDWATER AT 550 PM CDT THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS ARE CAPABLE OF PRODUCING... HAIL THE SIZE OF PENNIES... WIND UP TO 60 MILES AN HOUR... VERY HEAVY RAINFALL WHICH MAY CAUSE LOCALIZED FLOODING... 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 3737 9954 3720 9954 3716 9919 3737 9901 BURGERT
The office that day
Everything else NWS Dodge City, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 16, 4:23 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Clark | 32 min |
| Jun 16, 4:53 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Clark | 37 min |
| Jun 16, 5:31 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Clark | 44 min |
| Jun 16, 5:48 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Stafford | 27 min |
| Jun 16, 6:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Comanche | 45 min |
| Jun 16, 6:20 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Clark | 25 min |
| Jun 16, 6:36 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | DDC | Comanche | 114 min |
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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.