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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 310, NWS Dodge City, KS

August 22, 2001Clark County, Kansas

NWS Dodge City, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 22, 2001, 10:56 PM CDT for Clark County, Kansas. It was in force for 34 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
Aug 22, 2001, 10:56 PM CDT (03:56 UTC)
Expired
Aug 22, 2001, 11:30 PM CDT
In force
34 min
Issued by
NWS Dodge City, KS
Area
Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

County Clark County, KS

The radar

The Dodge City radar (KDDC), 75 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 04:00 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 00:00Z, 3.9 hours before the alert went out and 75 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 00:00Z on 2001-08-23Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1194 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 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 00:00Z on 2001-08-23The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 27 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
1194 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-40 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
2689 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
6 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
27 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
55 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.

969 
WUUS53 KDDC 230356
SVRDDC
KSC025-230430-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS
1056 PM CDT WED AUG 22 2001

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN DODGE CITY HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  SOUTHEASTERN CLARK COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST KANSAS

* UNTIL 1130 PM CDT

* AT 1056 PM CDT...DODGE CITY DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE
  THUNDERSTORM 10 MILES SOUTH OF SITKA...MOVING EAST AT 25 MPH.

THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM IS CAPABLE OF PRODUCING...
  HAIL THE SIZE OF NICKELS,
  DAMAGING WIND GREATER THAN 60 MILES AN HOUR,

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 3716 9992 3701 9979 3701 9955 3720 9958

BURKE

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Aug 22, 7:46 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCMorton44 min
Aug 22, 7:50 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCMeade40 min
Aug 22, 8:00 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCClark30 min
Aug 22, 8:27 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCClark33 min
Aug 22, 11:09 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCComanche36 min
Aug 22, 11:36 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCFord, Gray39 min
Aug 23, 12:22 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCFord38 min
Aug 23, 3:42 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCEllis48 min
Aug 23, 4:06 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCScott39 min
Aug 23, 4:44 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCTrego61 min
Aug 23, 4:48 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCScott42 min
Aug 23, 4:51 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCLane24 min
Aug 23, 5:06 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCEllis54 min
Aug 23, 5:11 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCLane64 min
Aug 23, 5:45 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCEllis60 min
Aug 23, 6:12 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCRush63 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.