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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 76, NWS Dodge City, KS

April 22, 2001Finney County, Grant County, Kearny County, Kansas

NWS Dodge City, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 22, 2001, 9:23 AM CDT for Finney County, Grant County, Kearny County, Kansas. It was in force for 52 min. 3 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 22, 2001, 9:23 AM CDT (14:23 UTC)
Expired: Apr 22, 2001, 10:15 AM CDT
In force: 52 min
Issued by: NWS Dodge City, KS
Area: Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

Counties Finney County, KS, Grant County, KS, Kearny County, KS

The radar

The Dodge City radar (KDDC), 101 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 14:23 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

Time	Report	Where	Remark
Apr 22, 9:45 AM CDT	Hail 0.75	Lakin, KS
Apr 22, 9:50 AM CDT	Hail 0.75	Holcomb, KS
Apr 22, 9:50 AM CDT	Thunderstorm Wind 60 E	Holcomb, KS	Three inch limbs blown down

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.

Issued	Product	Office	Lasted
Apr 22, 8:00 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	4 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 12:00Z, 2.4 hours before the alert went out and 107 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: 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 221424
SVRDDC
KSC055-067-093-221515-

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

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN DODGE CITY HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  WESTERN FINNEY COUNTY IN KANSAS
  NORTHERN GRANT COUNTY IN KANSAS
  EASTERN KEARNY COUNTY IN KANSAS
 
* UNTIL 1015 AM CDT

* AT 923 AM CDT...DODGE CITY DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE
  THUNDERSTORM 28 MILES SOUTH OF DEERFIELD...OR ABOUT 4 MILES
  NORTHWEST OF HICKOK...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 70 MPH.

* SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED
  DEERFIELD AT 940 AM CDT
  HOLCOMB AT 945 AM CDT
  FRIEND AT 1000 AM CDT

THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM IS CAPABLE OF PRODUCING...
  HAIL THE SIZE OF PENNIES
  WIND UP TO 60 MILES AN HOUR
  VERY FREQUENT AND DEADLY CLOUD-TO-GROUND LIGHTNING

STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS. AVOID USING THE TELEPHONE OR OTHER ELECTRICAL
EQUIPMENT WHILE LIGHTNING IS IN THE AREA. 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 3761 10142 3756 10113 3774 10109 3780 10098
          3826 10069 3826 10110

JOHNSON

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Apr 21, 7:07 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Rush	53 min
Apr 21, 7:32 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Hodgeman, Ness, Pawnee	43 min
Apr 21, 7:35 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	DDC	Pawnee	40 min
Apr 21, 7:58 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Ellis	62 min
Apr 21, 8:00 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Rush	45 min
Apr 21, 8:15 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	DDC	Rush	30 min
Apr 21, 8:55 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Seward	35 min
Apr 21, 9:03 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Haskell	42 min
Apr 21, 9:03 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Rush	47 min
Apr 21, 9:11 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	DDC	Ellis, Rush	49 min
Apr 21, 9:23 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Gray	52 min
Apr 21, 9:45 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Haskell	45 min
Apr 21, 10:00 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Ellis, Rush	45 min
Apr 21, 10:45 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Seward	45 min
Apr 21, 11:05 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Meade	40 min
Apr 22, 12:22 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Ford	38 min
Apr 22, 7:08 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Hamilton	52 min
Apr 22, 7:09 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Scott	21 min
Apr 22, 7:26 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Kiowa	34 min
Apr 22, 7:32 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Morton, Stanton	43 min
Apr 22, 8:19 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Hamilton	41 min
Apr 22, 9:46 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Scott	44 min
Apr 22, 10:09 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Finney	21 min
Apr 22, 10:34 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Lane, Scott	26 min
Apr 22, 1:27 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Barber	48 min
Apr 22, 1:42 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Pratt	33 min
Apr 22, 2:24 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Pratt	36 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.