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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 403, NWS Dodge City, KS

September 22, 2001Edwards County, Kansas

NWS Dodge City, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Sep 22, 2001, 8:23 PM CDT for Edwards County, Kansas. It was in force for 52 min. No storm report in the archive falls 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.

The facts

Issued
Sep 22, 2001, 8:23 PM CDT (01:23 UTC)
Expired
Sep 22, 2001, 9:15 PM CDT
In force
52 min
Issued by
NWS Dodge City, KS
Area
Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

County Edwards County, KS

The radar

The Dodge City radar (KDDC), 76 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:25 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.

The nearest sounding before it

Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 00:00Z, 1.4 hours before the alert went out and 70 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°0°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.

875 
WUUS53 KDDC 230124
SVRDDC
KSC047-230215-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS
823 PM CDT SAT SEP 22 2001

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN DODGE CITY HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  EASTERN EDWARDS COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL KANSAS

* UNTIL 915 PM CDT

* AT 823 PM CDT...DODGE CITY DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE
  THUNDERSTORM 6 MILES NORTHEAST OF LEWIS...OR ABOUT 5 MILES
  SOUTHEAST OF GARFIELD...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 30 MPH.

* SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED
  BELPRE AT 835 PM CDT
  FELLSBURG AT 845 PM CDT
  TROUSDALE AT 850 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 3799 9903 3800 9933 3774 9919 3774 9902

POAGE

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Sep 22, 7:23 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCPawnee67 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.