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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 367, NWS Dodge City, KS
NWS Dodge City, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Sep 13, 2001, 6:18 PM CDT for Trego County, Kansas. It was in force for 57 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 13, 2001, 6:18 PM CDT (23:18 UTC)
- Expired
- Sep 13, 2001, 7:15 PM CDT
- In force
- 57 min
- Issued by
- NWS Dodge City, KS
- Area
- Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction
County Trego County, KS
The radar
The Dodge City radar (KDDC), 119 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:19 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 13, 6:25 PM CDT | Hail 0.75 | Trego Center, 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, 11.3 hours before the alert went out and 119 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
- 520 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -182 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1298 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 26 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 55 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 94 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.7
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
033 WUUS53 KDDC 132321 SVRDDC KSC195-140015- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS 618 PM CDT THU SEP 13 2001 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN DODGE CITY HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... TREGO COUNTY IN WEST CENTRAL KANSAS * UNTIL 715 PM CDT * AT 618 PM CDT...DODGE CITY DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A NEARLY STATIONARY SEVERE THUNDERSTORM OVER TREGO COUNTY...OR ABOUT 11 MILES WEST OF TREGO CENTER. ANOTHER SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS LOCATED IN THE EXTREME SOUTHEAST CORNER OF TREGO COUNTY AND THIS STORM WAS ALSO STATIONARY. * SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED RURAL TREGO COUNTY AT 715 PM CDT THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM IS CAPABLE OF PRODUCING... HAIL THE SIZE OF NICKELS, VERY HEAVY RAINFALL WHICH MAY CAUSE LOCALIZED FLOODING, HEAVY RAINS FLOOD ROADS QUICKLY SO DO NOT DRIVE INTO AREAS WHERE WATER COVERS THE ROAD. LAT...LON 3876 10000 3894 10001 3895 10014 3875 10014 FINCH
The office that day
Everything else NWS Dodge City, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 13, 4:33 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Ellis, Ness, Rush | 42 min |
| Sep 13, 4:35 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Trego | 55 min |
| Sep 13, 5:29 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Trego | 46 min |
| Sep 13, 5:31 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Ness | 59 min |
| Sep 13, 6:10 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | DDC | Ness, Rush, Trego | 3 hr |
| Sep 13, 6:49 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Ness | 56 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.