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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 271, NWS Dodge City, KS

July 15, 2001Stevens County, Kansas

NWS Dodge City, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 15, 2001, 7:51 PM CDT for Stevens County, Kansas. It was in force for 39 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
Jul 15, 2001, 7:51 PM CDT (00:51 UTC)
Expired
Jul 15, 2001, 8:30 PM CDT
In force
39 min
Issued by
NWS Dodge City, KS
Area
Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

County Stevens County, KS

The radar

The Dodge City radar (KDDC), 143 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:55 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

TimeReportWhereRemark
Jul 15, 8:37 PM CDTHail 0.75Hugoton, 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, 0.9 hours before the alert went out and 149 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Dodge City, at 00:00Z on 2001-07-16Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 2123 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Dodge City, at 00:00Z on 2001-07-16The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 56 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
2123 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-8 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1877 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
22 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
56 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
146 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
2.8

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
WUUS53 KDDC 160054
SVRDDC

KSC189-160130-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS
751 PM CDT SUN JUL 15 2001

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN DODGE CITY HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  STEVENS COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST KANSAS

* UNTIL 830 PM CDT

* AT 751 PM CDT...DODGE CITY DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE
  THUNDERSTORM 7 MILES SOUTHEAST OF FETERITA...MOVING NORTH AT 15
  MPH.

* SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED
  FETERITA AT 800 PM CDT
  HUGOTON AT 815 PM 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 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 3703 10152 3702 10131 3735 10112 3735 10153

BURGERT

The office that day

Everything else NWS Dodge City, KS issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jul 15, 7:56 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCMorton49 min
Jul 15, 8:33 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCStevens42 min
Jul 15, 8:45 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCGrant30 min
Jul 15, 9:03 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCHaskell42 min
Jul 15, 9:17 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCSeward43 min
Jul 15, 9:53 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCGray52 min
Jul 15, 10:49 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCFord, Hodgeman41 min
Jul 15, 11:44 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCEdwards46 min
Jul 16, 12:08 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCPawnee, Stafford52 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.