Alert archive / Kansas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2001
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 252, NWS Dodge City, KS
NWS Dodge City, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 20, 2001, 4:05 AM CDT for Finney County, Kansas. It was in force for 40 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 20, 2001, 4:05 AM CDT (09:05 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 20, 2001, 4:45 AM CDT
- In force
- 40 min
- Issued by
- NWS Dodge City, KS
- Area
- Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction
County Finney County, KS
The radar
The Dodge City radar (KDDC), 75 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 09:09 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 20, 4:15 AM CDT | Hail 0.88 | Friend, 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 00:00Z, 9.1 hours before the alert went out and 79 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
- 41 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -495 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1231 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 35 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 184 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 710 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- -0.1
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WUUS53 KDDC 200905 SVRDDC KSC055-200945- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS 405 AM CDT WED JUN 20 2001 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN DODGE CITY HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... NORTHERN FINNEY COUNTY IN KANSAS * UNTIL 445 AM CDT * AT 405 AM CDT...DODGE CITY DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 29 MILES WEST OF KALVESTA...OR ABOUT 8 MILES SOUTHEAST OF FRIEND...MOVING EAST AT 25 MPH. * SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED KALVESTA AT 445 AM CDT THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM IS CAPABLE OF PRODUCING... HAIL THE SIZE OF NICKELS WIND UP TO 60 MILES AN HOUR VERY HEAVY RAINFALL WHICH MAY CAUSE L?OCALIZED FLOODING VERY FREQUENT AND DEADLY CLOUD-TO-GROUND LIGHTNING LAT...LON 3824 10095 3803 10087 3803 10026 3823 10026 16
The office that day
Everything else NWS Dodge City, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 19, 7:16 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Comanche | 59 min |
| Jun 19, 7:57 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Barber | 48 min |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Kansas, 2001Every severe thunderstorm warning in 2001
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.