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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 52, NWS Dodge City, KS

April 20, 2001Ness County, Trego County, Kansas

NWS Dodge City, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 20, 2001, 6:02 PM CDT for Ness County, Trego County, Kansas. It was in force for 43 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 20, 2001, 6:02 PM CDT (23:02 UTC)
Expired: Apr 20, 2001, 6:45 PM CDT
In force: 43 min
Issued by: NWS Dodge City, KS
Area: Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

Counties Ness County, KS, Trego County, KS

The radar

The Dodge City radar (KDDC), 111 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:03 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 nearest sounding before it

Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 12:00Z, 11.0 hours before the alert went out and 110 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: 0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL: 3628 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 35 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 153 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 376 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.

022 
WUUS53 KDDC 202302
SVRDDC
KSC135-195-202345-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS
602 PM CDT FRI APR 20 2001

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN DODGE CITY HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  NESS COUNTY IN KANSAS
  TREGO COUNTY IN KANSAS

* UNTIL 645 PM CDT

* AT 602 PM CDT...DODGE CITY DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A LINE OF SEVERE
  THUNDERSTORMS ALONG A LINE EXTENDING FROM 9 MILES NORTHWEST OF
  COLLYER TO 19 MILES SOUTHWEST OF BEELER...OR ALONG A LINE EXTENDING
  FROM 3 MILES NORTHWEST OF QUINTER TO 13 MILES SOUTHEAST OF AMY...
  MOVING EAST AT 85 MPH.

* SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED
  BEELER AT 610 PM CDT
  ARNOLD AT 615 PM CDT
  NESS CITY AT 620 PM CDT
  BROWNELL AT 625 PM CDT
  BAZINE AT 630 PM CDT

THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS ARE CAPABLE OF PRODUCING...
  HAIL THE SIZE OF PENNIES
  DESTRUCTIVE WIND UP TO 80 MILES AN HOUR

FOR YOUR PROTECTION MOVE TO AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF
YOUR HOME OR BUSINESS. STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS.

LAT...LON 3912 10014 3870 10014 3865 10022 3829 10020
          3829 9962 3912 9960

BURGERT

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Apr 20, 5:27 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Scott	48 min
Apr 20, 5:48 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Lane	42 min
Apr 20, 6:36 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Ellis, Rush	54 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.