Alert archive / Kansas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2001
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 397, NWS Dodge City, KS
NWS Dodge City, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Sep 19, 2001, 6:15 PM CDT for Seward County, Kansas. It was in force for 30 min. 2 reports 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, 6:15 PM CDT (23:15 UTC)
- Expired
- Sep 19, 2001, 6:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 30 min
- Issued by
- NWS Dodge City, KS
- Area
- Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction
County Seward County, KS
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 19, 6:30 PM CDT | Hail 1 | Kismet, KS | |
| Sep 19, 6:30 PM CDT | Hail 0.88 | Kismet, 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, 11.3 hours before the alert went out and 95 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
- 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
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
729 WUUS53 KDDC 192315 SVRDDC KSC175-192345- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS 615 PM CDT WED SEP 19 2001 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN DODGE CITY HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... SOUTHEASTERN SEWARD COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST KANSAS * UNTIL 645 PM CDT * AT 615 PM CDT...DODGE CITY DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 4 MILES SOUTHEAST OF KISMET...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 20 MPH. * SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED RURAL LOCATIONS IN SOUTHEASTERN SEWARD COUNTY 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 FOR SEWARD COUNTY. AVOID USING THE TELEPHONE OR OTHER ELECTRICAL EQUIPMENT WHILE LIGHTNING IS IN THE AREA. LAT...LON 3730 10064 3728 10070 3701 10077 3700 10063 POAGE
The office that day
Everything else NWS Dodge City, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 19, 3:14 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Grant, Kearny | 46 min |
| Sep 19, 3:59 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Grant | 46 min |
| Sep 19, 4:25 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Grant, Haskell | 50 min |
| Sep 19, 4:25 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Seward | 50 min |
| Sep 19, 5:13 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Seward | 62 min |
| Sep 19, 6:02 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Meade | 58 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.