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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 296, NWS Dodge City, KS

July 27, 2001Ness County, Kansas

NWS Dodge City, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 27, 2001, 6:57 PM CDT for Ness County, Kansas. It was in force for 48 min. No storm report in the archive falls 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.

The facts

Issued: Jul 27, 2001, 6:57 PM CDT (23:57 UTC)
Expired: Jul 27, 2001, 7:45 PM CDT
In force: 48 min
Issued by: NWS Dodge City, KS
Area: Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

County Ness County, KS

The radar

The Dodge City radar (KDDC), 74 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:55 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.

The nearest sounding before it

Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 12:00Z, 12.0 hours before the alert went out and 74 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

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The text

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

000 
WUUS53 KDDC 272359
SVRDDC

KSC135-280045-

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

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN DODGE CITY HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  NESS COUNTY IN WEST CENTRAL KANSAS

* UNTIL 745 PM CDT

* AT 657 PM CDT...DODGE CITY DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE        
  THUNDERSTORM 10 MILES SOUTH OF BEELER...MOVING NORTH AT 20 MPH.    
  ANOTHER SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS LOCATED 15 MILES NORTHEAST OF NESS 
  CITY.

* SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED
  BEELER AT 720 PM CDT.
  NESS CITY AT 735 PM CDT.
  ARNOLD AT 745 PM CDT.

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

STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS.

LAT...LON 3825 10023 3826 10002 3867 9960 3868 10021

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, 6:21 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Ellis	39 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

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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.