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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 404, NWS Dodge City, KS

September 22, 2001Barber County, Kiowa County, Pratt County, Kansas

NWS Dodge City, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Sep 22, 2001, 9:14 PM CDT for Barber County, Kiowa County, Pratt County, Kansas. It was in force for 76 min. 1 report 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, 9:14 PM CDT (02:14 UTC)
Expired
Sep 22, 2001, 10:30 PM CDT
In force
76 min
Issued by
NWS Dodge City, KS
Area
Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

Counties Barber County, KS, Kiowa County, KS, Pratt County, KS

The radar

The Dodge City radar (KDDC), 98 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 02:15 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, 9:15 PM CDTHail 0.75Greensburg, 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, 2.2 hours before the alert went out and 92 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.

517 
WUUS53 KDDC 230215
SVRDDC
KSC007-097-151-230330-

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

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN DODGE CITY HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  BARBER COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL KANSAS   
  EASTERN KIOWA COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL KANSAS
  PRATT COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL KANSAS

* UNTIL 1030 PM CDT

* AT 912 PM CDT...DODGE CITY DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A LINE OF SEVERE
  THUNDERSTORMS ALONG A LINE EXTENDING FROM 6 MILES NORTH OF
  WELLSFORD TO 7 MILES WEST OF BELVIDERE...MOVING EAST AT 20 MPH.

* SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED
  BELVIDERE AT 930 PM CDT
  CROFT AT 935 PM CDT
  PRATT AT 950 PM CDT
  COATS AT 955 PM CDT
  PRESTON AT 1010 PM CDT
  SAWYER AT 1015 PM CDT

THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS ARE CAPABLE OF PRODUCING...
  HAIL THE SIZE OF NICKELS,
  WIND UP TO 60 MILES AN HOUR

STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS.

LAT...LON 3775 9902 3745 9925 3727 9861 3780 9847

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, 8:23 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCEdwards52 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.