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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 73, NWS Dodge City, KS

April 22, 2001Kiowa County, Kansas

NWS Dodge City, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 22, 2001, 7:26 AM CDT for Kiowa County, Kansas. It was in force for 34 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, 7:26 AM CDT (12:26 UTC)
Expired
Apr 22, 2001, 8:00 AM CDT
In force
34 min
Issued by
NWS Dodge City, KS
Area
Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

County Kiowa County, KS

The radar

The Dodge City radar (KDDC), 51 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 12:28 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, 0.4 hours before the alert went out and 46 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 221226
SVRDDC
KSC097-221300-

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

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN DODGE CITY HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  WESTERN KIOWA COUNTY IN KANSAS

* UNTIL 800 AM CDT

* AT 726 AM CDT...DODGE CITY DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE
  THUNDERSTORM 5 MILES SOUTH OF MULLINVILLE...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 60
  MPH.

* SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED
  RURAL KIOWA COUNTY AT 740 AM CDT

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

FOR YOUR PROTECTION MOVE TO AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF
YOUR HOME OR BUSINESS. 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 3753 9957 3743 9942 3773 9911 3772 9946

KRaUSE

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, 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, 7:32 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

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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.