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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 37, NWS Dodge City, KS
NWS Dodge City, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 10, 2001, 10:53 PM CDT for Trego County, Kansas. It was in force for 67 min. No storm report in the archive falls 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.
The facts
- Issued
- Apr 10, 2001, 10:53 PM CDT (03:53 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 11, 2001, 12:00 AM CDT
- In force
- 67 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), 130 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 03:52 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.
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, 10:15 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 00:00Z, 3.9 hours before the alert went out and 130 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
- 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
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WUUS53 KDDC 110353 SVRDDC KSC195-110500- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS 1053 PM CDT TUE APR 10 2001 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN DODGE CITY HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... TREGO COUNTY IN KANSAS * UNTIL MIDNIGHT CDT * AT 1053 PM CDT...DODGE CITY DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 9 MILES WEST OF TREGO CENTER...OR ABOUT 8 MILES SOUTH OF VODA...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 35 MPH. * SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED WAKEENEY AT 1105 PM CDT OGALLAH AT 1115 PM CDT THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM IS 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 3901 10017 3873 10014 3883 9965 3909 9968 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, 10:02 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Grant | 58 min |
| Apr 10, 10:14 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Finney, Lane, Scott | 61 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
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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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.