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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 402, NWS Dodge City, KS

September 22, 2001Pawnee County, Kansas

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.

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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

TimeReportWhereRemark
Sep 22, 7:50 PM CDTHail 0.88Larned, KS
Sep 22, 7:55 PM CDTHail 0.75Rozel, KS
Sep 22, 8:25 PM CDTHail 0.88Garfield, 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.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Dodge City, at 00:00Z on 2001-09-23Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 545 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Dodge City, at 00:00Z on 2001-09-23The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -24 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 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
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

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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.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Sep 22, 8:23 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCEdwards52 min
Sep 22, 9:14 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCBarber, Kiowa, Pratt76 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.