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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 80, NWS Dodge City, KS

April 22, 2001Barber County, Kansas

NWS Dodge City, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 22, 2001, 1:27 PM CDT for Barber County, Kansas. It was in force for 48 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, 1:27 PM CDT (18:27 UTC)
Expired
Apr 22, 2001, 2:15 PM CDT
In force
48 min
Issued by
NWS Dodge City, KS
Area
Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

County Barber County, KS

The radar

The Vance AFB radar (KVNX), 84 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:30 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

TimeReportWhereRemark
Apr 22, 2:00 PM CDTHail 0.75Medicine Lodge, 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.

IssuedProductOfficeLasted
Apr 22, 12:00 PM CDTTornado WatchSPC5 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 12:00Z, 6.5 hours before the alert went out and 111 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 221827
SVRDDC
KSC007-221915-

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

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN DODGE CITY HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  BARBER COUNTY IN KANSAS

* UNTIL 215 PM CDT

* AT 127 PM CDT...DODGE CITY DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE
  THUNDERSTORM OVER AETNA...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 20 MPH.

* SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED
  LAKE CITY AT 210 PM CDT
  MEDICINE LODGE AT 215 PM CDT

THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM IS 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. STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS.

LAT...LON 3727 9900 3699 9897 3725 9851 3742 9872

JOHNSON

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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, 7:26 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCKiowa34 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, 1:42 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.