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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 396, NWS Dodge City, KS

September 19, 2001Meade County, Kansas

NWS Dodge City, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Sep 19, 2001, 6:02 PM CDT for Meade County, Kansas. It was in force for 58 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 19, 2001, 6:02 PM CDT (23:02 UTC)
Expired
Sep 19, 2001, 7:00 PM CDT
In force
58 min
Issued by
NWS Dodge City, KS
Area
Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

County Meade County, KS

What was reported inside it

TimeReportWhereRemark
Sep 19, 6:30 PM CDTHail 0.75Plains, 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, 11.0 hours before the alert went out and 88 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 2001-09-19Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Dodge City, at 12:00Z on 2001-09-19The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 30 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
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
752 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
43 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
30 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
51 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.

976 
WUUS53 KDDC 192302
SVRDDC
KSC119-200000-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS
602 PM CDT WED SEP 19 2001

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN DODGE CITY HAS ISSUED A

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

* UNTIL 700 PM CDT

* AT 602 PM CDT...DODGE CITY DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE
  THUNDERSTORM 15 MILES WEST OF MEADE STATE PARK...OR ABOUT 2 MILES
  SOUTH OF KISMET...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 20 MPH.

* SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED
  MEADE STATE PARK AT 620 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

THIS WARNING REPLACES THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING PREVIOUSLY
ISSUED.

STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS.

LAT...LON 3728 10063 3700 10063 3700 10009

POAGE

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Sep 19, 3:14 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCGrant, Kearny46 min
Sep 19, 3:59 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCGrant46 min
Sep 19, 4:25 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCGrant, Haskell50 min
Sep 19, 4:25 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCSeward50 min
Sep 19, 5:13 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCSeward62 min
Sep 19, 6:15 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCSeward30 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Kansas, 2001Every 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.