Alert archive / Kansas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2001
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 320, NWS Dodge City, KS
NWS Dodge City, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 23, 2001, 5:11 PM CDT for Lane County, Kansas. It was in force for 64 min. 1 report 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
- Aug 23, 2001, 5:11 PM CDT (22:11 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 23, 2001, 6:15 PM CDT
- In force
- 64 min
- Issued by
- NWS Dodge City, KS
- Area
- Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction
County Lane County, KS
The radar
The Dodge City radar (KDDC), 106 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:14 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 23, 5:14 PM CDT | Hail 1 | Healy, 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 watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 23, 1:30 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 7 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 12:00Z, 10.2 hours before the alert went out and 108 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 851 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -210 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1550 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 13 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 21 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 27 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
559 WUUS53 KDDC 232211 SVRDDC KSC101-232315- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS 511 PM CDT THU AUG 23 2001 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN DODGE CITY HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... NORTHERN LANE COUNTY IN WEST CENTRAL KANSAS * UNTIL 615 PM CDT * AT 511 PM CDT...DODGE CITY DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM OVER HEALY...MOVING EAST AT 25 MPH. * SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED SHIELDS AT 530 PM CDT, PENDENNIS AT 545 PM CDT, THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM IS CAPABLE OF PRODUCING... HAIL THE SIZE OF NICKELS, WIND UP TO 60 MILES AN HOUR, THIS WARNING REPLACES THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING PREVIOUSLY ISSUED. AVOID USING THE TELEPHONE OR OTHER ELECTRICAL EQUIPMENT WHILE LIGHTNING IS IN THE AREA. 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 3868 10067 3850 10068 3854 10025 3869 10024 KRUSE
The office that day
Everything else NWS Dodge City, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 22, 7:46 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Morton | 44 min |
| Aug 22, 7:50 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Meade | 40 min |
| Aug 22, 8:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Clark | 30 min |
| Aug 22, 8:27 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Clark | 33 min |
| Aug 22, 10:56 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Clark | 34 min |
| Aug 22, 11:09 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Comanche | 36 min |
| Aug 22, 11:36 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Ford, Gray | 39 min |
| Aug 23, 12:22 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Ford | 38 min |
| Aug 23, 3:42 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Ellis | 48 min |
| Aug 23, 4:06 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Scott | 39 min |
| Aug 23, 4:44 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Trego | 61 min |
| Aug 23, 4:48 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Scott | 42 min |
| Aug 23, 4:51 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Lane | 24 min |
| Aug 23, 5:06 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Ellis | 54 min |
| Aug 23, 5:45 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Ellis | 60 min |
| Aug 23, 6:12 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Rush | 63 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.