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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 38, NWS Dodge City, KS

April 10, 2001Meade County, Kansas

NWS Dodge City, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 10, 2001, 11:45 PM CDT for Meade County, Kansas. It was in force for 60 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, 11:45 PM CDT (04:45 UTC)
Expired: Apr 11, 2001, 12:45 AM CDT
In force: 60 min
Issued by: NWS Dodge City, KS
Area: Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

County Meade County, KS

The radar

The Dodge City radar (KDDC), 81 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 04:47 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, 8:30 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	5 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 00:00Z, 4.8 hours before the alert went out and 85 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: 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

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The text

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

000 
WUUS53 KDDC 110445
SVRDDC
KSC119-110545-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS
1145 PM CDT TUE APR 10 2001

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN DODGE CITY HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  MEADE COUNTY IN KANSAS

* UNTIL 1245 AM CDT

* AT 1145 PM CDT...DODGE CITY DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE
  THUNDERSTORM 11 MILES SOUTHWEST OF MEADE STATE PARK...MOVING
  NORTHEAST AT 40 MPH.

* SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED
  MEADE STATE PARK AT 1155 PM CDT
  MISSLER AT MIDNIGHT CDT
  MEADE AT 1205 AM CDT
  FOWLER AT 1220 AM 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 3709 10068 3702 10053 3702 10013 3742 10014
          3B745 10042

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, 10:53 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Trego	67 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

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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.