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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 331, NWS Dodge City, KS

August 23, 2001Ford County, Kansas

NWS Dodge City, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 23, 2001, 9:52 PM CDT for Ford County, Kansas. It was in force for 38 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, 9:52 PM CDT (02:52 UTC)
Expired
Aug 23, 2001, 10:30 PM 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), 30 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 02:55 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

TimeReportWhereRemark
Aug 23, 9:55 PM CDTHail 0.75Bucklin, 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 nearest sounding before it

Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 00:00Z, 2.9 hours before the alert went out and 27 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 2001-08-24Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1476 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 2001-08-24The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 15 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
1476 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-44 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
2129 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
29 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
15 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
43 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.4

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

142 
WUUS53 KDDC 240253
SVRDDC
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BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS
952 PM CDT THU AUG 23 2001

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN DODGE CITY HAS ISSUED A

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

* UNTIL 1030 PM CDT

* AT 952 PM CDT...DODGE CITY DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE
  THUNDERSTORM 4 MILES EAST OF KINGSDOWN...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 20
  MPH.

* SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED
  BUCKLIN AT 1000 PM CDT,

THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM IS CAPABLE OF PRODUCING...
  HAIL THE SIZE OF PENNIES,
  VERY FREQUENT AND DEADLY CLOUD-TO-GROUND LIGHTNING,

STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS. 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 3748 9999 3749 9959 3758 9956 3771 9970

BURGERT

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Aug 23, 8:15 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCClark45 min
Aug 23, 8:21 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCBarber39 min
Aug 23, 8:29 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCComanche46 min
Aug 23, 8:45 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCMeade45 min
Aug 23, 8:58 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCBarber47 min
Aug 23, 9:12 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCClark48 min
Aug 23, 9:15 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCComanche45 min
Aug 23, 9:25 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCMeade50 min
Aug 23, 10:06 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCKiowa39 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.