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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 355, NWS Dodge City, KS

September 7, 2001Ellis County, Rush County, Kansas

NWS Dodge City, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Sep 7, 2001, 3:49 PM CDT for Ellis County, Rush County, Kansas. It was in force for 41 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: Sep 7, 2001, 3:49 PM CDT (20:49 UTC)
Expired: Sep 7, 2001, 4:30 PM CDT
In force: 41 min
Issued by: NWS Dodge City, KS
Area: Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

Counties Ellis County, KS, Rush County, KS

The radar

The Dodge City radar (KDDC), 125 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:50 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.

What was reported inside it

Time	Report	Where	Remark
Sep 7, 4:15 PM CDT	Hail 1.75	Loretta, KS	The hail covered the ground.

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 12:00Z, 8.8 hours before the alert went out and 121 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: 1722 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -338 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1371 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 50 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -20 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 49 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.9

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The text

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

219 
WUUS53 KDDC 072049
SVRDDC
KSC051-165-072130-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS
349 PM CDT FRI SEP 7 2001

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN DODGE CITY HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  ELLIS COUNTY IN CENTRAL KANSAS
  NORTHERN RUSH COUNTY IN CENTRAL KANSAS

* UNTIL 430 PM CDT

* AT 349 PM CDT...DODGE CITY DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE
  THUNDERSTORM 6 MILES SOUTH OF LIEBENTHAL...OR ABOUT 2 MILES NORTH
  OF LA CROSSE...MOVING NORTH AT 30 MPH.

* SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED
  LIEBENTHAL AT 355 PM CDT
  LORETTA AT 400 PM CDT
  SCHOENCHEN AT 405 PM CDT
  PFEIFER AT 410 PM CDT
  TOULON AT 420 PM CDT
  VICTORIA AT 430 PM CDT

THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM IS CAPABLE OF PRODUCING...
  HAIL THE SIZE OF PENNIES,

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 3858 9940 3851 9919 3896 9905 3905 9924

FINCH

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Sep 7, 2:29 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Lane	46 min
Sep 7, 4:43 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Clark	47 min
Sep 7, 4:46 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Ford	44 min
Sep 7, 5:06 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Hodgeman	39 min
Sep 7, 5:11 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Ford	34 min
Sep 7, 5:20 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Kiowa	40 min
Sep 7, 5:41 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Edwards	49 min
Sep 7, 6:48 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Rush	27 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.