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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 48, NWS Dodge City, KS

April 14, 2001Kiowa County, Pratt County, Kansas

NWS Dodge City, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 14, 2001, 8:58 PM CDT for Kiowa County, Pratt County, Kansas. It was in force for 47 min. 5 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, 8:58 PM CDT (01:58 UTC)
Expired: Apr 14, 2001, 9:45 PM CDT
In force: 47 min
Issued by: NWS Dodge City, KS
Area: Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

Counties Kiowa County, KS, Pratt County, KS

The radar

The Dodge City radar (KDDC), 82 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:58 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
Apr 14, 9:00 PM CDT	Hail 1	Byers, KS
Apr 14, 9:20 PM CDT	Hail 2	Haviland, KS
Apr 14, 9:26 PM CDT	Hail 1.75	Pratt, KS
Apr 14, 9:31 PM CDT	Hail 1.75	Pratt, KS
Apr 14, 9:49 PM CDT	Hail 1	Sawyer, 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 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, 2:45 PM CDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	6 hr
Apr 14, 8:00 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	5 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 00:00Z, 2.0 hours before the alert went out and 77 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 150159
SVRDDC
KSC097-151-150245-

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

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN DODGE CITY HAS ISSUED A

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

* UNTIL 945 PM CDT

* AT 858 PM CDT...DODGE CITY DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A LINE OF SEVERE
  THUNDERSTORMS ALONG A LINE EXTENDING FROM HOPEWELL TO 11 MILES
  SOUTHWEST OF GREENSBURG...OR ALONG A LINE EXTENDING FROM HOPEWELL
  TO 9 MILES SOUTHEAST OF MULLINVILLE...MOVING EAST AT 20 MPH.

* SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED
  BYERS AT 910 PM CDT
  WELLSFORD AT 925 PM CDT
  CULLISON AT 935 PM CDT
  IUKA AT 940 PM CDT
  BELVIDERE AT 945 PM CDT

THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS ARE 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 NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORECAST OFFICE IN DODGE CITY.

LAT...LON 3780 9899 3773 9900 3772 9927 3739 9952
          3740 9904 3746 9901 3781 9854

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, 8:41 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Edwards, Stafford	49 min
Apr 14, 9:31 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Barber, Pratt	44 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.