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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 71, NWS Dodge City, KS

April 22, 2001Hamilton County, Kansas

NWS Dodge City, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 22, 2001, 6:08 AM MDT for Hamilton 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 22, 2001, 6:08 AM MDT (12:08 UTC)
Expired
Apr 22, 2001, 7:00 AM MDT
In force
52 min
Issued by
NWS Dodge City, KS
Area
Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

County Hamilton County, KS

The radar

The Goodland radar (KGLD), 105 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 12:10 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, 0.1 hours before the alert went out and 133 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 12:00Z on 2001-04-22Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1369 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 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 12:00Z on 2001-04-22The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 310 square meters per square second.1939587897Sfc1 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
1369 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-75 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
670 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
49 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
310 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
330 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
1.8
Supercell composite
9.0

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The text

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

000 
WUUS53 KDDC 221209
SVRDDC
KSC171-221230-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS
709 AM CDT SUN APR 22 2001

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN DODGE CITY HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  NORTHWESTERN SCOTT COUNTY IN KANSAS

* UNTIL 730 AM CDT

* AT 709 AM CDT...DODGE CITY DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE
  THUNDERSTORM OVER MODOC...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 50 MPH.

* SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED
  SCOTT STATE LAKE AT 715 AM CDT

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

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 3866 10111 3841 10110 3851 10090 3869 10088

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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Apr 21, 6:07 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCRush53 min
Apr 21, 6:32 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCHodgeman, Ness, Pawnee43 min
Apr 21, 6:35 PM MDTTornado WarningDDCPawnee40 min
Apr 21, 6:58 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCEllis62 min
Apr 21, 7:00 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCRush45 min
Apr 21, 7:15 PM MDTTornado WarningDDCRush30 min
Apr 21, 7:55 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCSeward35 min
Apr 21, 8:03 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCHaskell42 min
Apr 21, 8:03 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCRush47 min
Apr 21, 8:11 PM MDTTornado WarningDDCEllis, Rush49 min
Apr 21, 8:23 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCGray52 min
Apr 21, 8:45 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCHaskell45 min
Apr 21, 9:00 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCEllis, Rush45 min
Apr 21, 9:45 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCSeward45 min
Apr 21, 10:05 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCMeade40 min
Apr 21, 11:22 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCFord38 min
Apr 22, 6:09 AM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCScott21 min
Apr 22, 6:26 AM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCKiowa34 min
Apr 22, 6:32 AM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCMorton, Stanton43 min
Apr 22, 7:19 AM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCHamilton41 min
Apr 22, 8:23 AM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCFinney, Grant, Kearny52 min
Apr 22, 8:46 AM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCScott44 min
Apr 22, 9:09 AM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCFinney21 min
Apr 22, 9:34 AM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCLane, Scott26 min
Apr 22, 12:27 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCBarber48 min
Apr 22, 12:42 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCPratt33 min
Apr 22, 1:24 PM MDTSevere 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.