Alert archive / Kansas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2001

Severe Thunderstorm Warning 9, NWS Dodge City, KS

March 10, 2001Meade County, Kansas

NWS Dodge City, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 10, 2001, 6:56 PM CST for Meade County, Kansas. It was in force for 34 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, 6:56 PM CST (00:56 UTC)
Expired
Mar 10, 2001, 7:30 PM CST
In force
34 min
Issued by
NWS Dodge City, KS
Area
Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

County Meade County, KS

The radar

The Dodge City radar (KDDC), 63 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:00 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 00:00Z, 0.9 hours before the alert went out and 68 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 00:00Z on 2001-03-11Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 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 00:00Z on 2001-03-11The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 589 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
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
540 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
64 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
589 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
717 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 110057
SVRDDC
KSC119-110145-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS
656 PM CST SAT MAR 10 2001

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN DODGE CITY HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  NORTHWESTERN MEADE COUNTY IN KANSAS

* UNTIL 730 PM CST

* AT 656 PM CST...DODGE CITY DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE
  THUNDERSTORM 9 MILES NORTHWEST OF MISSLER...OR ABOUT 8 MILES NORTH
  OF PLAINS CITY...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 20 MPH.

* SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED
  RURAL MEADE COUNTY AT 710 PM CST

THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM IS CAPABLE OF PRODUCING...
  HAIL THE SIZE OF PENNIES

STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS. REPORT 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 3747 10064 3729 10062 3729 10034 3748 10034

GERARD

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.