Alert archive / Kansas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2001
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 402, NWS Dodge City, KS
NWS Dodge City, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Sep 22, 2001, 7:23 PM CDT for Pawnee County, Kansas. It was in force for 67 min. 3 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 22, 2001, 7:23 PM CDT (00:23 UTC)
- Expired
- Sep 22, 2001, 8:30 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 radar
The Dodge City radar (KDDC), 77 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:24 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 22, 7:50 PM CDT | Hail 0.88 | Larned, KS | |
| Sep 22, 7:55 PM CDT | Hail 0.75 | Rozel, KS | |
| Sep 22, 8:25 PM CDT | Hail 0.88 | Garfield, 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 00:00Z, 0.4 hours before the alert went out and 72 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
- 545 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -46 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 3032 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 24 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -24 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -64 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
605 WUUS53 KDDC 230024 SVRDDC KSC145-230130- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS 723 PM CDT SAT SEP 22 2001 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN DODGE CITY HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... PAWNEE COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL KANSAS * UNTIL 830 PM CDT * AT 723 PM CDT...DODGE CITY DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 3 MILES NORTHWEST OF BURDETT...MOVING EAST AT 20 MPH. * SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED ROZEL AT 740 PM CDT SANFORD AT 800 PM CDT ASH VALLEY AT 810 PM CDT FRIZELL AT 815 PM CDT LARNED AT 830 PM CDT THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM IS CAPABLE OF PRODUCING... HAIL THE SIZE OF NICKELS, WIND UP TO 60 MILES AN HOUR STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS. LAT...LON 3833 9958 3813 9957 3802 9893 3834 9897 POAGE
The office that day
Everything else NWS Dodge City, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 22, 8:23 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Edwards | 52 min |
| Sep 22, 9:14 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Barber, Kiowa, Pratt | 76 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.