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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 86, NWS Dodge City, KS

April 29, 2001Finney County, Kansas

NWS Dodge City, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 29, 2001, 8:41 PM CDT for Finney County, Kansas. It was in force for 49 min. 1 report came from inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named, with what was reported inside it.

The facts

Issued
Apr 29, 2001, 8:41 PM CDT (01:41 UTC)
Expired
Apr 29, 2001, 9:30 PM CDT
In force
49 min
Issued by
NWS Dodge City, KS
Area
Whole counties

County Finney County, KS

The radar

The Dodge City radar (KDDC), 74 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:41 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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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 29, 8:45 PM CDTHail 0.88Kalvesta, 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 nearest sounding before it

Denver, CO (KDNR), launched 00:00Z, 1.7 hours before the alert went out and 296 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, Denver, CO at 00:00Z on 2001-04-30Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 102 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Denver, CO at 00:00Z on 2001-04-30The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 20 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 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
102 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-61 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
3383 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
38 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
20 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
170 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
-0.1

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The text

The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Apr 29, 7:28 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCFinney, Kearny, Scott47 min
Apr 30, 6:37 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCComanche23 min
Apr 30, 6:57 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCKiowa48 min
Apr 30, 6:59 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCEdwards, Pratt, Stafford46 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Kansas, 2001Every severe thunderstorm warning in 2001

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.