Alert archive / Kansas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2001
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 360, NWS Dodge City, KS
NWS Dodge City, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Sep 7, 2001, 5:20 PM CDT for Kiowa County, Kansas. It was in force for 40 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, 5:20 PM CDT (22:20 UTC)
- Expired
- Sep 7, 2001, 6:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 40 min
- Issued by
- NWS Dodge City, KS
- Area
- Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction
County Kiowa County, KS
The radar
The Dodge City radar (KDDC), 51 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:20 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, 5:25 PM CDT | Hail 1.75 | Mullinville, 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 12:00Z, 10.3 hours before the alert went out and 46 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
- 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
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
957 WUUS53 KDDC 072221 SVRDDC KSC097-072300- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS 520 PM CDT FRI SEP 7 2001 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN DODGE CITY HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... WESTERN KIOWA COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL KANSAS * UNTIL 600 PM CDT * AT 520 PM CDT...DODGE CITY DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 6 MILES SOUTHWEST OF MULLINVILLE...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 35 MPH. * SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED MULLINVILLE AT 525 PM CDT GREENSBURG AT 535 PM CDT THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM IS CAPABLE OF PRODUCING... HAIL THE SIZE OF PENNIES, STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS. 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 3761 9955 3741 9952 3771 9907 3772 9940 BURGERT
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, 3:49 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Ellis, Rush | 41 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, 5:41 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.