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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 65, NWS Dodge City, KS

April 21, 2001Gray County, Kansas

NWS Dodge City, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 21, 2001, 9:23 PM CDT for Gray County, Kansas. It was in force for 52 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 21, 2001, 9:23 PM CDT (02:23 UTC)
Expired
Apr 21, 2001, 10:15 PM CDT
In force
52 min
Issued by
NWS Dodge City, KS
Area
Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

County Gray County, KS

The radar

The Dodge City radar (KDDC), 46 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 02:25 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 00:00Z, 2.4 hours before the alert went out and 52 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Dodge City, at 00:00Z on 2001-04-22Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1118 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Dodge City, at 00:00Z on 2001-04-22The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 181 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
1118 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-11 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1940 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
62 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
181 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
365 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.1
Supercell composite
12.2

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The text

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

000 
WUUS53 KDDC 220223
SVRDDC
KSC069-220315-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS
923 PM CDT SAT APR 21 2001

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN DODGE CITY HAS ISSUED A

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

* UNTIL 1015 PM CDT

* AT 923 PM CDT...DODGE CITY DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE
  THUNDERSTORM OVER COPELAND...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 35 MPH.

* SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED
  MONTEZUMA AT 935 PM CDT
  THE HAGGARD ELEV AT 945 PM CDT
  ENSIGN AT 950 PM CDT
  INGALLS AT 955 PM CDT
  CIMARRON AT 1000 PM CDT

THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM IS CAPABLE OF PRODUCING...
  HAIL THE SIZE OF NICKELS.

LAT...LON 3749 10063 3749 10023 3785 10024 3791 10061

REITER

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Apr 21, 7:07 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCRush53 min
Apr 21, 7:32 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCHodgeman, Ness, Pawnee43 min
Apr 21, 7:35 PM CDTTornado WarningDDCPawnee40 min
Apr 21, 7:58 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCEllis62 min
Apr 21, 8:00 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCRush45 min
Apr 21, 8:15 PM CDTTornado WarningDDCRush30 min
Apr 21, 8:55 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCSeward35 min
Apr 21, 9:03 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCHaskell42 min
Apr 21, 9:03 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCRush47 min
Apr 21, 9:11 PM CDTTornado WarningDDCEllis, Rush49 min
Apr 21, 9:45 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCHaskell45 min
Apr 21, 10:00 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCEllis, Rush45 min
Apr 21, 10:45 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCSeward45 min
Apr 21, 11:05 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCMeade40 min
Apr 22, 12:22 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCFord38 min
Apr 22, 7:08 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCHamilton52 min
Apr 22, 7:09 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCScott21 min
Apr 22, 7:26 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCKiowa34 min
Apr 22, 7:32 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCMorton, Stanton43 min
Apr 22, 8:19 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCHamilton41 min
Apr 22, 9:23 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCFinney, Grant, Kearny52 min
Apr 22, 9:46 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCScott44 min
Apr 22, 10:09 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCFinney21 min
Apr 22, 10:34 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCLane, Scott26 min
Apr 22, 1:27 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCBarber48 min
Apr 22, 1:42 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCPratt33 min
Apr 22, 2:24 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCPratt36 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Kansas, 2001Every 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.