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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 90, NWS Dodge City, KS

April 30, 2001Barber County, Comanche County, Kansas

NWS Dodge City, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 30, 2001, 7:04 PM CDT for Barber County, Comanche County, Kansas. It was in force for 41 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, 7:04 PM CDT (00:04 UTC)
Expired: Apr 30, 2001, 7:45 PM CDT
In force: 41 min
Issued by: NWS Dodge City, KS
Area: Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

Counties Barber County, KS, Comanche County, KS

The radar

The Vance AFB radar (KVNX), 96 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:08 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, 0.1 hours before the alert went out and 99 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: 85 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -29 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 3013 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 42 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 14 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 47 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 010004
SVRDDC
KSC007-033-010045-

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

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN DODGE CITY HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  WESTERN BARBER COUNTY IN KANSAS
  EASTERN COMANCHE COUNTY IN KANSAS

* UNTIL 745 PM CDT

* AT 704 PM CDT...DODGE CITY DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE
  THUNDERSTORM 14 MILES SOUTHWEST OF SUN CITY...OR ABOUT 9 MILES
  NORTHWEST OF AETNA...MOVING EAST AT 10 MPH.

* SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED
  SUN CITY AT 730 PM CDT

THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM IS CAPABLE OF PRODUCING...
  HAIL THE SIZE OF PENNIES
  DAMAGING WIND GREATER THAN 60 MILES AN HOUR
  VERY FREQUENT AND DEADLY CLOUD-TO-GROUND LIGHTNING

THIS WARNING REPLACES THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING PREVIOUSLY
ISSUED.

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. 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 3736 9915 3712 9915 3706 9875 3741 9872

JOHNSON

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Apr 30, 7:16 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Stafford	59 min
Apr 30, 7:46 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Barber, Kiowa, Pratt	59 min
Apr 30, 7:46 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Comanche	59 min
Apr 30, 7:56 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Stafford	49 min
Apr 30, 8:45 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Comanche	45 min
Apr 30, 8:59 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	DDC	Barber, Comanche	3 hr

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.