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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 89, NWS Dodge City, KS

April 30, 2001Edwards County, Pratt County, Stafford County, Kansas

NWS Dodge City, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 30, 2001, 6:59 PM CDT for Edwards County, Pratt County, Stafford County, Kansas. It was in force for 46 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: Apr 30, 2001, 6:59 PM CDT (23:59 UTC)
Expired: Apr 30, 2001, 7:45 PM CDT
In force: 46 min
Issued by: NWS Dodge City, KS
Area: Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

Counties Edwards County, KS, Pratt County, KS, Stafford County, KS

The radar

The Dodge City radar (KDDC), 83 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:05 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

Lamont, OK (KLMN), launched 12:00Z, 12.0 hours before the alert went out and 189 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: 0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL: 1431 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 17 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 60 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 151 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
WUUS53 KDDC 010000
SVRDDC
KSC047-151-185-010045-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS
659 PM CDT MON APR 30 2001

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN DODGE CITY HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  SOUTHEASTERN EDWARDS COUNTY IN KANSAS
  NORTHWESTERN PRATT COUNTY IN KANSAS
  SOUTHWESTERN STAFFORD COUNTY IN KANSAS

* UNTIL 745 PM CDT

* AT 659 PM CDT...DODGE CITY DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE
  THUNDERSTORM 4 MILES SOUTHEAST OF TROUSDALE...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 5
  MPH.

* SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED
  HOPEWELL AT 725 PM CDT
  BYERS AT 745 PM 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

FOR YOUR SAFETY SEEK A STURDY SHELTER IMMEDIATELY! FOR YOUR
PROTECTION MOVE TO AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF YOUR HOME
OR BUSINESnS. STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS.

LAT...LON 3774 9920 3773 9901 3764 9901 3787 9875
          3801 9901

JOHNSON

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Apr 29, 7:28 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Finney, Kearny, Scott	47 min
Apr 29, 8:41 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Finney	49 min
Apr 30, 6:37 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Comanche	23 min
Apr 30, 6:57 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Kiowa	48 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Kansas, 2001 Every 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.