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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 280, NWS Dodge City, KS

July 16, 2001Pawnee County, Stafford County, Kansas

NWS Dodge City, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 16, 2001, 12:08 AM CDT for Pawnee County, Stafford County, Kansas. It was in force for 52 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 16, 2001, 12:08 AM CDT (05:08 UTC)
Expired: Jul 16, 2001, 1:00 AM CDT
In force: 52 min
Issued by: NWS Dodge City, KS
Area: Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

Counties Pawnee County, KS, Stafford County, KS

The radar

The Dodge City radar (KDDC), 103 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 05:11 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 16, 12:12 AM CDT	Hail 0.88	Larned, 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, 5.1 hours before the alert went out and 97 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: 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

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

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

000 
WUUS53 KDDC 160510
SVRDDC

KSC145-185-160600-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS
1208 AM CDT MON JUL 16 2001

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN DODGE CITY HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  EASTERN PAWNEE COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL KANSAS
  NORTHERN STAFFORD COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL KANSAS

* UNTIL 100 AM CDT.

* AT 1208 AM CDT...DODGE CITY DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE
  THUNDERSTORM OVER ZOOK...MOVING EAST AT 30 MPH.

* SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED
  RADIUM AT 1230 AM CDT
  SEWARD AT 1240 AM CDT
  HUDSON AT 1250 AM CDT

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

FOR YOUR SAFETY SEEK A STURDY SHELTER IMMEDIATELY! 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 3825 9918 3799 9918 3800 9848 3824 9848

GERARD

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jul 15, 7:51 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Stevens	39 min
Jul 15, 7:56 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Morton	49 min
Jul 15, 8:33 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Stevens	42 min
Jul 15, 8:45 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Grant	30 min
Jul 15, 9:03 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Haskell	42 min
Jul 15, 9:17 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Seward	43 min
Jul 15, 9:53 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Gray	52 min
Jul 15, 10:49 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Ford, Hodgeman	41 min
Jul 15, 11:44 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Edwards	46 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Kansas, 2001 Every 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.