Alert archive / Kansas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2001

Severe Thunderstorm Warning 47, NWS Dodge City, KS

April 14, 2001Edwards County, Stafford County, Kansas

NWS Dodge City, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 14, 2001, 8:41 PM CDT for Edwards County, Stafford County, Kansas. It was in force for 49 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 14, 2001, 8:41 PM CDT (01:41 UTC)
Expired: Apr 14, 2001, 9:30 PM CDT
In force: 49 min
Issued by: NWS Dodge City, KS
Area: Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

Counties Edwards County, KS, Stafford County, KS

The radar

The Dodge City radar (KDDC), 90 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:43 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 14, 8:00 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	5 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 00:00Z, 1.7 hours before the alert went out and 84 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: 1970 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -9 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1548 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 80 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 77 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 199 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.6
Supercell composite: 6.7

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The text

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

000 
WUUS53 KDDC 150143
SVRDDC
KSC047-185-150230-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS
841 PM CDT SAT APR 14 2001

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN DODGE CITY HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  EASTERN EDWARDS COUNTY IN KANSAS
  SOUTHERN STAFFORD COUNTY IN KANSAS

* UNTIL 930 PM CDT

* AT 841 PM CDT...DODGE CITY DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE
  THUNDERSTORM 6 MILES NORTHEAST OF TROUSDALE...OR ABOUT 5 MILES
  NORTHWEST OF HOPEWELL...MOVING EAST AT 30 MPH.

* SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED
  DILLWYN AT 850 PM CDT
  ST. JOHN AT 855 PM CDT
  STAFFORD AT 910 PM CDT
  ZENITH AT 915 PM CDT

THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM IS CAPABLE OF PRODUCING...
  HAIL THE SIZE OF QUARTERS
  WIND UP TO 60 MILES AN HOUR

FOR YOUR SAFETY SEEK A STURDY SHELTER IMMEDIATELY! REPORT SEVERE
WEATHER TO THE NEAREST LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCY. THEY WILL RELAY YOUR
REPORT TO THE NATIONALX WEATHER SERVICE FORECAST OFFICE IN DODGE CITY.

LAT...LON 3800 9925 3775 9927 3775 9904 3784 9902
          3784 9849 3813 9848 3799 9891

GERARD

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Apr 14, 7:33 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Lane, Scott	42 min
Apr 14, 8:58 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Kiowa, Pratt	47 min
Apr 14, 9:31 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Barber, Pratt	44 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.