Alert archive / Kansas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2001
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 77, NWS Dodge City, KS
NWS Dodge City, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 22, 2001, 9:46 AM CDT for Scott County, Kansas. It was in force for 44 min. 1 report 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, 9:46 AM CDT (14:46 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 22, 2001, 10:30 AM CDT
- In force
- 44 min
- Issued by
- NWS Dodge City, KS
- Area
- Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction
County Scott County, KS
The radar
The Goodland radar (KGLD), 109 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 14:49 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, 10:38 AM CDT | Thunderstorm Wind 62 E | Scott City, 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.
| 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, 2.8 hours before the alert went out and 128 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.
- 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
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WUUS53 KDDC 221447 SVRDDC KSC171-221530- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS 946 AM CDT SUN APR 22 2001 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN DODGE CITY HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... CENTRAL AND NORTHERN SCOTT COUNTY IN KANSAS * UNTIL 1030 AM CDT * AT 946 AM CDT...DODGE CITY DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A LINE OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS ALONG A LINE EXTENDING FROM 6 MILES WEST OF SCOTT STATE LAKE TO 9 MILES SOUTH OF MODOC...OR ALONG A LINE EXTENDING FROM 6 MILES WEST OF SCOTT STATE LAKE TO 8 MILES WEST OF SHALLOW WATER. THE LINE WAS MOVING NORTHEAST AT 25 MPH. STORMS IN THE LINE WERE MOVING NORTH NORTHEAST AT AROUND 50 MPH. * SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED SCOTT STATE LAKE AT 955 AM CDT SCOTT CITY AT 1000 AM CDT GRIGSTON AT 1025 AM CDT THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS ARE CAPABLE OF PRODUCING... HAIL THE SIZE OF NICKELS DAMAGING WIND GREATER THAN 60 MILES AN HOUR VERY FREQUENT AND DEADLY CLOUD-TO-GROUND LIGHTNING FOR YOUR SAFETY SEEK A STURDY SHELTER IMMEDIATELY FOR YOUR PROTECTION MOVE TO AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF YOUR HOME OR BUSINESS. LAT...LON 3869 10109 3846 10108 3846 10068 3869 10068 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, 9:23 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Finney, Grant, Kearny | 52 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.