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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 375, NWS Dodge City, KS

September 17, 2001Trego County, Kansas

NWS Dodge City, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Sep 17, 2001, 5:07 PM CDT for Trego County, Kansas. It was in force for 53 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: Sep 17, 2001, 5:07 PM CDT (22:07 UTC)
Expired: Sep 17, 2001, 6:00 PM CDT
In force: 53 min
Issued by: NWS Dodge City, KS
Area: Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

County Trego County, KS

The watch it was issued in

The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.

Issued	Product	Office	Lasted
Sep 17, 4:00 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	5 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 12:00Z, 10.1 hours before the alert went out and 135 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: 370 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -187 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1357 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 19 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 53 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 60 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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The text

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

293 
WUUS53 KDDC 172211
SVRDDC
KSC195-172300-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS
507 PM CDT MON SEP 17 2001

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN DODGE CITY HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  TREGO COUNTY IN WEST CENTRAL KANSAS

* UNTIL 600 PM CDT

THIS EXTENDS THE PREVIOUS SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING THAT WAS IN 
EFFECT FOR TREGO COUNTY.

* AT 507 PM CDT...DODGE CITY DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE        
  THUNDERSTORM 4 MILES SOUTHWEST OF WAKEENEY...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT   
  20 MPH.

* SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED
  OGALLAH AT 525 PM CDT
  RIGA AT 540 PM CDT

THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM IS CAPABLE OF PRODUCING...
  HAIL THE SIZE OF QUARTERS,
  WIND UP TO 60 MILES AN HOUR,
  VERY HEAVY RAINFALL WHICH MAY CAUSE LOCALIZED FLOODING,

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 3910 9998 3893 10006 3878 9961 3900 9961

FINCH

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Sep 17, 4:11 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Trego	59 min
Sep 17, 5:20 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	DDC	Trego	3 hr
Sep 17, 5:22 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Lane, Ness	53 min
Sep 17, 5:33 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Finney, Kearny	57 min
Sep 17, 5:45 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Morton, Stevens	60 min
Sep 17, 5:49 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Ellis	61 min
Sep 17, 6:14 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Rush	61 min
Sep 17, 6:16 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Lane, Ness	59 min
Sep 17, 6:27 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	DDC	Ness, Rush	6 hr
Sep 17, 6:52 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Stevens	53 min
Sep 17, 6:54 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Hodgeman	61 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Kansas, 2001 Every severe thunderstorm warning in 2001

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.