Alert archive / Kansas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2001
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 348, NWS Dodge City, KS
NWS Dodge City, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Sep 2, 2001, 7:47 PM CDT for Ness County, Trego County, Kansas. It was in force for 58 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
- Sep 2, 2001, 7:47 PM CDT (00:47 UTC)
- Expired
- Sep 2, 2001, 8:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 58 min
- Issued by
- NWS Dodge City, KS
- Area
- Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction
Counties Ness County, KS, Trego County, KS
The radar
The Dodge City radar (KDDC), 98 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:50 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, 0.8 hours before the alert went out and 96 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
- 1356 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -24 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 2437 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 27 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 12 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 198 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 4.7
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
813 WUUS53 KDDC 030048 SVRDDC KSC135-195-030145- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS 747 PM CDT SUN SEP 2 2001 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN DODGE CITY HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... NORTHEASTERN NESS COUNTY IN WEST CENTRAL KANSAS SOUTHEASTERN TREGO COUNTY IN WEST CENTRAL KANSAS * UNTIL 845 PM CDT. * AT 747 PM CDT...DODGE CITY DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 4 MILES NORTHEAST OF BROWNELL...MOVING SOUTH AT 15 MPH. * SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED BROWNELL AT 755 PM CDT, BAZINE AT 845 PM CDT, THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM IS CAPABLE OF PRODUCING... HAIL THE SIZE OF PENNIES, VERY HEAVY RAINFALL WHICH MAY CAUSE LOCALIZED FLOODING, FOR YOUR SAFETY SEEK A STURDY SHELTER IMMEDIATELY HEAVY RAINS FLOOD ROADS QUICKLY SO DO NOT DRIVE INTO AREAS WHERE WATER COVERS THE ROAD. 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 3877 9960 3878 9985 3838 9988 3838 9959 GERARD
The office that day
Everything else NWS Dodge City, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 2, 7:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Trego | 45 min |
| Sep 2, 7:17 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Rush | 43 min |
| Sep 2, 7:25 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Hodgeman | 50 min |
| Sep 2, 7:56 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Pawnee | 64 min |
| Sep 2, 8:15 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Hodgeman | 60 min |
| Sep 2, 9:16 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Ford, Hodgeman | 44 min |
| Sep 2, 10:25 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Ford | 50 min |
| Sep 2, 10:27 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Clark, Meade | 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.