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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 263, NWS Dodge City, KS

July 3, 2001Ellis County, Trego County, Kansas

NWS Dodge City, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 3, 2001, 6:53 PM CDT for Ellis County, Trego County, Kansas. It was in force for 52 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: Jul 3, 2001, 6:53 PM CDT (23:53 UTC)
Expired: Jul 3, 2001, 7:45 PM CDT
In force: 52 min
Issued by: NWS Dodge City, KS
Area: Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

Counties Ellis County, KS, Trego County, KS

The radar

The Dodge City radar (KDDC), 142 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:52 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
Jul 3, 7:05 PM CDT	Hail 1	Ogallah, KS
Jul 3, 7:15 PM CDT	Thunderstorm Wind 52 E	Ellis, 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, 11.9 hours before the alert went out and 140 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 952 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -245 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1548 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 12 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 121 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 169 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 032355
SVRDDC

KSC051-195-040045-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS
653 PM CDT TUE JUL 3 2001

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN DODGE CITY HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  WESTERN ELLIS COUNTY IN CENTRAL KANSAS
  NORTHEASTERN TREGO COUNTY IN WEST CENTRAL KANSAS

* UNTIL 745 PM CDT

* AT 653 PM CDT...DODGE CITY DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE
  THUNDERSTORM 7 MILES NORTH OF ELLIS...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 15 MPH.

* SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED
  ELLIS AT 705 PM CDT
  YOCEMENTO AT 730 PM CDT
  HAYS AT 745 PM CDT

THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM IS CAPABLE OF PRODUCING...
  HAIL THE SIZE OF NICKELS
  WIND UP TO 60 MILES AN HOUR
  VERY FREQUENT AND DEADLY CLOUD-TO-GROUND LIGHTNING

FOR YOUR SAFETY SEEK A STURDY SHELTER IMMEDIATELY! FOR YOUR
PROTECTION MOVE TO AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF YOUR HOME
OR BUSINESS. STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS.

LAT...LON 3913 9974 3893 9977 3873 9937 3888 9920
          3912 9923

JOHNSON

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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.