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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 367, NWS Dodge City, KS

September 13, 2001Trego County, Kansas

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.

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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

TimeReportWhereRemark
Sep 13, 6:25 PM CDTHail 0.75Trego 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.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Dodge City, at 12:00Z on 2001-09-13Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 520 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Dodge City, at 12:00Z on 2001-09-13The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 55 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
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

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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.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Sep 13, 4:33 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCEllis, Ness, Rush42 min
Sep 13, 4:35 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCTrego55 min
Sep 13, 5:29 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCTrego46 min
Sep 13, 5:31 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCNess59 min
Sep 13, 6:10 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningDDCNess, Rush, Trego3 hr
Sep 13, 6:49 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCNess56 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.