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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 384, NWS Dodge City, KS

September 17, 2001Pawnee County, Kansas

NWS Dodge City, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Sep 17, 2001, 7:08 PM CDT for Pawnee 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: Sep 17, 2001, 7:08 PM CDT (00:08 UTC)
Expired: Sep 17, 2001, 8:15 PM CDT
In force: 67 min
Issued by: NWS Dodge City, KS
Area: Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

County Pawnee 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 00:00Z, 0.1 hours before the alert went out and 65 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: 732 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -6 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1890 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 106 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 44 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 194 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 1.5

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The text

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

463 
WUUS53 KDDC 180009
SVRDDC
KSC145-180115-

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

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN DODGE CITY HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  PAWNEE COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL KANSAS

* UNTIL 815 PM CDT

* AT 708 PM CDT...DODGE CITY DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE
  THUNDERSTORM 4 MILES WEST OF BURDETT...MOVING EAST AT 25 MPH.

* SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED
  ROZEL AT 725 PM CDT
  SANFORD AT 735 PM CDT
  GARFIELD AT 745 PM CDT
  LARNED AT 755 PM CDT

THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM IS CAPABLE OF PRODUCING...
  DAMAGING HAIL THE SIZE OF GOLFBALLS,
  DESTRUCTIVE WIND UP TO 80 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 3831 9957 3810 9955 3809 9937 3803 9912
          3819 9903

FINCH

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Sep 17, 7:20 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	DDC	Ellis	6 hr
Sep 17, 7:21 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Scott	54 min
Sep 17, 7:44 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	DDC	Pawnee	6 hr
Sep 17, 8:02 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Stevens	43 min
Sep 17, 8:14 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	DDC	Trego	4 hr
Sep 17, 8:21 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Edwards, Pawnee	24 min
Sep 17, 8:32 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Seward	43 min
Sep 17, 8:32 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Stafford	58 min
Sep 17, 10:46 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Comanche	44 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.