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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 29, NWS Dodge City, KS

April 6, 2001Clark County, Ford County, Hodgeman County, Kansas

NWS Dodge City, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 6, 2001, 6:54 PM CDT for Clark County, Ford County, Hodgeman County, Kansas. It was in force for 66 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: Apr 6, 2001, 6:54 PM CDT (23:54 UTC)
Expired: Apr 6, 2001, 8:00 PM CDT
In force: 66 min
Issued by: NWS Dodge City, KS
Area: Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

Counties Clark County, KS, Ford County, KS, Hodgeman County, KS

The radar

The Dodge City radar (KDDC), 23 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:54 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
Apr 6, 7:26 PM CDT	Thunderstorm Wind 53 M	Dodge City Arpt, KS	Backup wind equipment.

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 watch it was issued in

The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.

Issued	Product	Office	Lasted
Apr 6, 4:15 PM CDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	5 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 12:00Z, 11.9 hours before the alert went out and 29 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: 0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL: 2143 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 69 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 52 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 370 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 062356
SVRDDC
KSC025-055-057-083-070100-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS
654 PM CDT FRI APR 6 2001

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN DODGE CITY HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  CLARK COUNTY IN KANSAS
  EASTERN FINNEY COUNTY IN KANSAS
  FORD COUNTY IN KANSAS
  WESTERN HODGEMAN COUNTY IN KANSAS

* UNTIL 800 PM CDT

* AT 653 PM CDT...DODGE CITY DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A LINE OF SEVERE
  THUNDERSTORMS ALONG A LINE EXTENDING FROM 15 MILES WEST OF KALVESTA
  TO 3 MILES WEST OF ENGLEWOOD...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 50 MPH.

* SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED
  ACRES AT 700 PM CDT
  KALVESTA AT 705 PM CDT
  ASHLAND AT 710 PM CDT
  CLARK STATE LAKE AT 715 PM CDT
  DODGE CITY AT 720 PM CDT
  JETMORE AT 725 PM CDT

THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS ARE CAPABLE OF PRODUCING...
  HAIL THE SIZE OF NICKELS
  DESTRUCTIVE WIND UP TO 80 MILES AN HOUR

A TORNADO WATCH IS ALSO IN EFFECT. REMEMBER...SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS
CAN PRODUCE TORNADOES WITH LITTLE OR NO ADVANCE WARNING.

LAT...LON 3817 10063 3799 10058 3799 10023 3749 10021
          3748 10010 3700 10008 3703 9972 3827 9988

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Apr 6, 12:44 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Lane	46 min
Apr 6, 4:35 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	DDC	Hamilton, Stanton	25 min
Apr 6, 5:01 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Hamilton	14 min
Apr 6, 5:06 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Morton	24 min
Apr 6, 5:15 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Stanton	45 min
Apr 6, 5:26 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Grant, Stevens	64 min
Apr 6, 5:30 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Hamilton	45 min
Apr 6, 5:35 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Kearny	40 min
Apr 6, 5:39 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	DDC	Grant, Stevens	36 min
Apr 6, 5:58 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Finney, Haskell, Seward	47 min
Apr 6, 5:58 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Scott	47 min
Apr 6, 6:20 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Gray, Meade	85 min
Apr 6, 6:54 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Finney	66 min

Nearby

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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.