Alert archive / Kansas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2001
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 4, NWS Dodge City, KS
NWS Dodge City, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 10, 2001, 4:15 PM CST for Clark County, Meade County, Kansas. It was in force for 45 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
- Mar 10, 2001, 4:15 PM CST (22:15 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 10, 2001, 5:00 PM CST
- In force
- 45 min
- Issued by
- NWS Dodge City, KS
- Area
- Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction
Counties Clark County, KS, Meade County, KS
The radar
The Dodge City radar (KDDC), 56 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:15 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.
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 10, 4:15 PM CST | Hail 1.75 | Meade, KS | |
| Mar 10, 5:10 PM CST | Hail 0.75 | Fowler, 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, 10.3 hours before the alert went out and 59 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
- 994 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 24 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 159 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 140 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WUUS53 KDDC 102215 SVRDDC KSC025-119-102300- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS 415 PM CST SAT MAR 10 2001 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN DODGE CITY HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... WESTERN CLARK COUNTY IN KANSAS EASTERN MEADE COUNTY IN KANSAS * UNTIL 500 PM CST * AT 415 PM CST...DODGE CITY DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 8 MILES SOUTHEAST OF MEADE...OR ABOUT 8 MILES EAST OF MEADE STATE PARK...MOVING EAST AT 30 MPH. * SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED ENGLEWOOD AT 435 PM CST ACRES AT 450 PM CST THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM IS CAPABLE OF PRODUCING... HAIL THE SIZE OF NICKELS WIND UP TO 60 MILES AN HOUR FOR YOUR SAFETY SEEK A STURDY SHELTER IMMEDIATELY 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 3746 10036 3701 10035 3701 9986 3747 9988 $$ GERARD
The office that day
Everything else NWS Dodge City, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 10, 3:10 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Seward | 35 min |
| Mar 10, 3:35 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Meade | 40 min |
| Mar 10, 3:49 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Seward | 31 min |
| Mar 10, 4:25 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Gray, Meade | 50 min |
| Mar 10, 5:04 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Clark, Meade | 41 min |
| Mar 10, 5:25 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Meade | 35 min |
| Mar 10, 5:46 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Clark | 44 min |
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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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.