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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 3, NWS Dodge City, KS

March 10, 2001Seward County, Kansas

NWS Dodge City, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 10, 2001, 3:49 PM CST for Seward County, Kansas. It was in force for 31 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
Mar 10, 2001, 3:49 PM CST (21:49 UTC)
Expired
Mar 10, 2001, 4:20 PM CST
In force
31 min
Issued by
NWS Dodge City, KS
Area
Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

County Seward County, KS

The radar

The Dodge City radar (KDDC), 86 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:50 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, 9.8 hours before the alert went out and 91 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 12:00Z on 2001-03-10Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 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 12:00Z on 2001-03-10The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 159 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
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
994 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
24 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
159 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
140 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 102150
SVRDDC
KSC175-102230-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS
349 PM CST SAT MAR 10 2001

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN DODGE CITY HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  NORTHEASTERN SEWARD COUNTY IN KANSAS

* UNTIL 420 PM CST

* AT 349 PM CST...DODGE CITY DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE
  THUNDERSTORM 3 MILES NORTH OF KISMET...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 20 MPH.

* SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED
  RURAL SECTIONS OF NORTHEAST SEWARD COUNTY

THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM IS CAPABLE OF PRODUCING...
  HAIL THE SIZE OF PENNIES

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 3737 10083 3720 10080 3720 10064 3736 10064

$$

GERARD

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Mar 10, 3:10 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCSeward35 min
Mar 10, 3:35 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCMeade40 min
Mar 10, 4:15 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCClark, Meade45 min
Mar 10, 4:25 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCGray, Meade50 min
Mar 10, 5:04 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCClark, Meade41 min
Mar 10, 5:25 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCMeade35 min
Mar 10, 5:46 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCClark44 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.