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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 293, NWS Dodge City, KS

July 27, 2001Ellis County, Kansas

NWS Dodge City, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 27, 2001, 6:21 PM CDT for Ellis County, Kansas. It was in force for 39 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 27, 2001, 6:21 PM CDT (23:21 UTC)
Expired: Jul 27, 2001, 7:00 PM CDT
In force: 39 min
Issued by: NWS Dodge City, KS
Area: Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

County Ellis County, KS

The radar

The Dodge City radar (KDDC), 145 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:20 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 27, 6:35 PM CDT	Hail 1.25	Hays, KS
Jul 27, 6:45 PM CDT	Hail 1.25	Victoria, 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, 11.4 hours before the alert went out and 141 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: 817 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -174 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1006 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 16 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 230 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 238 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

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

000 
WUUS53 KDDC 272322
SVRDDC

KSC051-280000-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS
621 PM CDT FRI JUL 27 2001

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN DODGE CITY HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  EASTERN ELLIS COUNTY IN CENTRAL KANSAS

* UNTIL 700 PM CDT

* AT 621 PM CDT...DODGE CITY DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE
  THUNDERSTORM 5 MILES SOUTHEAST OF VICTORIA...MOVING NORTH AT 15
  MPH.

* SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED
  WALKER AT 630 PM CDT.
  EMMERAM AT 650 PM CDT.

THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM IS CAPABLE OF PRODUCING...
  HAIL THE SIZE OF QUARTERS.
  DAMAGING WIND GREATER THAN 60 MILES AN HOUR.
  VERY HEAVY RAINFALL WHICH MAY CAUSE LOCALIZED FLOODING.

STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS.

LAT...LON 3876 9924 3871 9904 3912 9904 3913 9918

POAGE

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jul 26, 7:39 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Hamilton	51 min
Jul 26, 9:32 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Kearny	43 min
Jul 26, 10:19 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Scott	56 min
Jul 26, 11:15 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Trego	60 min
Jul 27, 4:57 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Grant	48 min
Jul 27, 5:44 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Grant, Kearny	46 min
Jul 27, 6:08 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Finney	52 min
Jul 27, 6:25 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Hamilton, Kearny	50 min
Jul 27, 6:42 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Lane	48 min
Jul 27, 6:57 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Ness	48 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.