Alert archive / Kansas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2001
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 45, NWS Dodge City, KS
NWS Dodge City, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 14, 2001, 5:44 PM CDT for Pawnee County, Stafford County, Kansas. It was in force for 46 min. 2 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
- Apr 14, 2001, 5:44 PM CDT (22:44 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 14, 2001, 6:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 46 min
- Issued by
- NWS Dodge City, KS
- Area
- Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction
Counties Pawnee County, KS, Stafford County, KS
The radar
The Dodge City radar (KDDC), 111 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:44 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 14, 5:45 PM CDT | Hail 1.75 | Larned, KS | |
| Apr 14, 5:47 PM CDT | Hail 1 | Pratt, 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 12:00Z, 10.7 hours before the alert went out and 105 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1389 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 54 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 435 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 545 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 1.7
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WUUS53 KDDC 142245 SVRDDC KSC145-185-142330- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS 544 PM CDT SAT APR 14 2001 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN DODGE CITY HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... SOUTHEASTERN PAWNEE COUNTY IN KANSAS NORTHERN STAFFORD COUNTY IN KANSAS * UNTIL 630 PM CDT * AT 544 PM CDT...RADAR INDICATED AND SPOTTERS REPORTED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 5 MILES SOUTHEAST OF LARNED...MOVING EAST AT 30 MPH. * SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED HUDSON AT 600 PM CDT THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM IS CAPABLE OF PRODUCING... DAMAGING HAIL THE SIZE OF GOLFBALLS FOR YOUR PROTECTION MOVE TO AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF YOUR HOME OR BUSINESS. LAT...LON 3824 9903 3803 9903 3803 9848 3824 9848 GERARD
The office that day
Everything else NWS Dodge City, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 14, 4:32 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Barber | 58 min |
| Apr 14, 4:50 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Pawnee | 40 min |
| Apr 14, 5:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Kiowa | 45 min |
| Apr 14, 5:18 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DDC | Pawnee, Rush | 27 min |
| Apr 14, 5:28 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DDC | Kiowa, Pratt | 32 min |
| Apr 14, 5:59 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DDC | Pratt | 31 min |
| Apr 14, 6:37 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DDC | Pratt | 23 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.