Alert archive / Kansas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2001
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 321, NWS Dodge City, KS
NWS Dodge City, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 23, 2001, 5:45 PM CDT for Ellis County, Kansas. It was in force for 60 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, 5:45 PM CDT (22:45 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 23, 2001, 6:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 60 min
- Issued by
- NWS Dodge City, KS
- Area
- Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction
County Ellis County, KS
The radar
The Dodge City radar (KDDC), 138 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:49 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, 6:05 PM CDT | Hail 1 | Schoenchen, 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 |
| Aug 23, 5:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 5 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 12:00Z, 10.8 hours before the alert went out and 135 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.
381 WUUS53 KDDC 232245 SVRDDC KSC051-232345- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS 545 PM CDT THU AUG 23 2001 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN DODGE CITY HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... ELLIS COUNTY IN CENTRAL KANSAS * UNTIL 645 PM CDT * AT 545 PM CDT...DODGE CITY DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 5 MILES NORTHWEST OF ANTONINO...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 30 MPH. * SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED YOCEMENTO AT 550 PM CDT, HAYS AT 555 PM CDT, CATHERINE AT 605 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 3882 9959 3870 9930 3912 9905 3913 9945 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, 5:11 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Lane | 64 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.