Alert archive / Kansas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2001
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 8, NWS Dodge City, KS
NWS Dodge City, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 10, 2001, 5:46 PM CST for Clark County, Kansas. It was in force for 44 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
- Mar 10, 2001, 5:46 PM CST (23:46 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 10, 2001, 6:30 PM CST
- In force
- 44 min
- Issued by
- NWS Dodge City, KS
- Area
- Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction
County Clark County, KS
The radar
The Dodge City radar (KDDC), 49 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:50 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, 11.8 hours before the alert went out and 50 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 994 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 24 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 159 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 140 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WUUS53 KDDC 102347 SVRDDC KSC025-110030- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS 546 PM CST SAT MAR 10 2001 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN DODGE CITY HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... NORTHERN CLARK COUNTY IN KANSAS * UNTIL 630 PM CST * AT 546 PM CST...DODGE CITY DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 3 MILES SOUTHWEST OF CLARK STATE LAKE...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 25 MPH. * SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED RURAL NORTHERN CLARK COUNTY THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM IS CAPABLE OF PRODUCING... HAIL THE SIZE OF PENNIES VERY HEAVY RAINFALL WHICH MAY CAUSE LOCALIZED FLOODING STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS. REP$ORT 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 3724 10008 3723 9955 3745 9957 3746 10010 GERARD
The office that day
Everything else NWS Dodge City, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 10, 3:10 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Seward | 35 min |
| Mar 10, 3:35 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Meade | 40 min |
| Mar 10, 3:49 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Seward | 31 min |
| Mar 10, 4:15 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Clark, Meade | 45 min |
| Mar 10, 4:25 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Gray, Meade | 50 min |
| Mar 10, 5:04 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Clark, Meade | 41 min |
| Mar 10, 5:25 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Meade | 35 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.