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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 68, NWS Dodge City, KS

April 21, 2001Seward County, Kansas

NWS Dodge City, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 21, 2001, 10:45 PM CDT for Seward County, Kansas. It was in force for 45 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 21, 2001, 10:45 PM CDT (03:45 UTC)
Expired
Apr 21, 2001, 11:30 PM CDT
In force
45 min
Issued by
NWS Dodge City, KS
Area
Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

County Seward County, KS

The radar

The Dodge City radar (KDDC), 105 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 03:44 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

TimeReportWhereRemark
Apr 21, 10:47 PM CDTHail 0.88Liberal, KS
Apr 21, 11:00 PM CDTHail 0.88Liberal, 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.

IssuedProductOfficeLasted
Apr 21, 10:00 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPC5 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 00:00Z, 3.8 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-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 220345
SVRDDC
KSC175-220430-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS
1045 PM CDT SAT APR 21 2001

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN DODGE CITY HAS ISSUED A

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

* UNTIL 1130 PM CDT

* AT 1045 PM CDT...DODGE CITY DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE
  THUNDERSTORM 2 MILES NORTH OF LIBERAL...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 35 MPH.

* SOfME LOCATIONS AFFECTED
  KISMET AT 1100 PM CDT

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

LAT...LON 3703 10105 3701 10064 3737 10066 3738 10104

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, 9:23 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCGray52 min
Apr 21, 9:45 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCHaskell45 min
Apr 21, 10:00 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCEllis, Rush45 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.