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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 35, NWS Dodge City, KS

April 10, 2001Grant County, Kansas

NWS Dodge City, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 10, 2001, 10:02 PM CDT for Grant County, Kansas. It was in force for 58 min. 2 reports came from inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named, with what was reported inside it.

The facts

Issued: Apr 10, 2001, 10:02 PM CDT (03:02 UTC)
Expired: Apr 10, 2001, 11:00 PM CDT
In force: 58 min
Issued by: NWS Dodge City, KS
Area: Whole counties

County Grant County, KS

The radar

The Dodge City radar (KDDC), 120 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 03:05 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
Apr 10, 10:12 PM CDT	Hail 1	Ulysses, KS
Apr 10, 10:27 PM CDT	Thunderstorm Wind 56 M	Ulysses, 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
Apr 10, 8:30 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	5 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 00:00Z, 3.0 hours before the alert went out and 126 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 27 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -126 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 2242 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 66 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 205 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 327 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.1

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The text

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

000 
WUUS53 KDDC 110303
SVRDDC
KSC067-129-187-189-110400-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS
1002 PM CDT TUE APR 10 2001

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN DODGE CITY HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  GRANT COUNTY IN KANSAS
  EASTERN MORTON COUNTY IN KANSAS
  EASTERN STANTON COUNTY IN KANSAS
  WESTERN STEVENS COUNTY IN KANSAS

* UNTIL 1100 PM CDT

* AT 1002 PM CDT...DODGE CITY DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A LINE OF
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS ALONG A LINE EXTENDING FROM 10 MILES NORTH OF
  BIG BOW TO 9 MILES SOUTH OF ROLLA...OR ALONG A LINE EXTENDING FROM
  10 MILES NORTH OF BIG BOW TO 7 MILES SOUTHEAST OF WILBURTON...
  MOVING EAST AT 20 MPH.

* SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED
  FETERITA AT 1025 PM CDT
  ULYSSES AT 1030 PM CDT
  HUGOTON AT 1040 PM CDT
  HICKOK AT 1045 PM CDT
  MOSCOW AT 1055 PM CDT

THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS ARE CAPABLE OF PRODUCING...
  HAIL THE SIZE OF PENNIES
  WIND UP TO 60 MILES AN HOUR

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 3773 10161 3701 10178 3701 10125 3772 10115

KRUSE

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Apr 10, 8:45 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Grant, Morton, Stanton, Stevens	75 min
Apr 10, 9:05 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Hamilton, Kearny	55 min
Apr 10, 9:50 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Lane, Scott	55 min
Apr 10, 10:02 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Morton, Stanton, Stevens	58 min
Apr 10, 10:14 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Finney, Lane, Scott	61 min
Apr 10, 10:53 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Trego	67 min
Apr 10, 11:45 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Meade	60 min
Apr 11, 12:22 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Edwards, Hodgeman, Pawnee	53 min
Apr 11, 1:10 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Clark, Comanche	65 min
Apr 11, 1:35 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Kiowa	55 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Kansas, 2001 Every 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.