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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 41, NWS Dodge City, KS

April 11, 2001Kiowa County, Kansas

NWS Dodge City, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 11, 2001, 1:35 AM CDT for Kiowa County, Kansas. It was in force for 55 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: Apr 11, 2001, 1:35 AM CDT (06:35 UTC)
Expired: Apr 11, 2001, 2:30 AM CDT
In force: 55 min
Issued by: NWS Dodge City, KS
Area: Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

County Kiowa County, KS

The radar

The Dodge City radar (KDDC), 69 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 06:39 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.

The watch it was issued in

The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.

Issued	Product	Office	Lasted
Apr 11, 12:00 AM CDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	4 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 00:00Z, 6.6 hours before the alert went out and 64 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 27 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -126 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 2242 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 66 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 205 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 327 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.1

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
WUUS53 KDDC 110635
SVRDDC
KSC097-110730-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS
135 AM CDT WED APR 11 2001

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN DODGE CITY HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  KIOWA COUNTY IN KANSAS

* UNTIL 230 AM CDT

* AT 135 AM CDT...DODGE CITY DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE
  THUNDERSTORM 18 MILES SOUTH OF GREENSBURG...OR ABOUT 8 MILES NORTH
  OF COLDWATER...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 50 MPH.

* SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED
  BELVIDERE AT 145 AM CDT
  GREENSBURG AT 150 AM CDT
  HAVILAND AT 155 AM CDT

THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM IS CAPABLE OF PRODUCING...
  HAIL THE SIZE OF QUARTERS
  DAMAGING WIND GREATER THAN 60 MILES AN HOUR

A TORNADO WATCH IS ALSO IN EFFECT. REMEMBER...SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS
CAN PRODUCE TORNADOES WITH LITTLE OR NO ADVANCE WARNING. REPORT
SEVERE WEATHER TO THE NEAREST LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCY. THEY WILL RELAY
YOUR REPOR,T TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORECAST OFFICE IN DODGE
CITY.

LAT...LON 3740 9951 3740 9908 3750 9905 3771 9902
          3773 9930

KRUSE

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Apr 10, 8:45 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Grant, Morton, Stanton, Stevens	75 min
Apr 10, 9:05 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Hamilton, Kearny	55 min
Apr 10, 9:50 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Lane, Scott	55 min
Apr 10, 10:02 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Morton, Stanton, Stevens	58 min
Apr 10, 10:02 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Grant	58 min
Apr 10, 10:14 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Finney, Lane, Scott	61 min
Apr 10, 10:53 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Trego	67 min
Apr 10, 11:45 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Meade	60 min
Apr 11, 12:22 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Edwards, Hodgeman, Pawnee	53 min
Apr 11, 1:10 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Clark, Comanche	65 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Kansas, 2001 Every 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.