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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 313, NWS Dodge City, KS

August 23, 2001Ford County, Kansas

NWS Dodge City, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 23, 2001, 12:22 AM CDT for Ford County, Kansas. It was in force for 38 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 23, 2001, 12:22 AM CDT (05:22 UTC)
Expired
Aug 23, 2001, 1:00 AM CDT
In force
38 min
Issued by
NWS Dodge City, KS
Area
Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

County Ford County, KS

The radar

The Dodge City radar (KDDC), 4 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 05:25 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, 5.4 hours before the alert went out and 7 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.

094 
WUUS53 KDDC 230525
SVRDDC
KSC057-230600-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS
1222 AM CDT THU AUG 23 2001

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN DODGE CITY HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  FORD COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST KANSAS

* UNTIL 100 AM CDT

* AT 1222 AM CDT...DODGE CITY DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE
  THUNDERSTORM 5 MILES SOUTHWEST DODGE CITY...MOVING NORTHEAST
  AT 30 MPH.

* SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED
  DODGE CITY THROUGH 1240 AM CDT,
  FT. DODGE AROUND 1225 AM CDT, 
  WRIGHT AROUND 1235 AM CDT,
  FORD AT 1240 AM CDT,
 
THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM IS CAPABLE OF PRODUCING...
  HAIL THE SIZE OF NICKELS,
  WIND UP TO 60 MILES AN HOUR,
  VERY FREQUENT AND DEADLY CLOUD-TO-GROUND LIGHTNING,

THIS WARNING REPLACES THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING PREVIOUSLY 
ISSUED FOR FORD COUNTY.

STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS. AVOID USING THE TELEPHONE OR OTHER ELECTRICAL
EQUIPMENT WHILE LIGHTNING IS IN THE AREA.

LAT...LON 3789 10021 3749 10019 3748 9957 3789 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, 10:56 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCClark34 min
Aug 22, 11:09 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCComanche36 min
Aug 22, 11:36 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCFord, Gray39 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.