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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 98, NWS Dodge City, KS

May 8, 2001Rush County, Kansas

NWS Dodge City, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 8, 2001, 4:32 PM CDT for Rush County, Kansas. It was in force for 43 min. 2 reports 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
May 8, 2001, 4:32 PM CDT (21:32 UTC)
Expired
May 8, 2001, 5:15 PM CDT
In force
43 min
Issued by
NWS Dodge City, KS
Area
Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

County Rush County, KS

The radar

The Dodge City radar (KDDC), 106 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:35 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
May 8, 4:41 PM CDTHail 0.88Liebenthal, KS
May 8, 5:21 PM CDTHail 0.75La Crosse, 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

Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 12:00Z, 9.5 hours before the alert went out and 103 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 2001-05-08Temperature 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 12:00Z on 2001-05-08The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 98 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
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
1488 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
41 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
98 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
66 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 082132
SVRDDC
KSC165-082215-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS
432 PM CDT TUE MAY 8 2001

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN DODGE CITY HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  NORTHERN RUSH COUNTY IN KANSAS

* UNTIL 515 PM CDT

* AT 431 PM CDT DODGE CITY DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE 
  THUNDERSTORM...5 MILES NORTHWEST OF LIEBENTHAL...MOVING EAST     
  AT 30 MPH.

* SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED
  RURAL RUSH COUNTY THROUGH 445 PM CDT

THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM IS CAPABLE OF PRODUCING...
  HAIL THE SIZE OF QUARTERS
  DAMAGING WIND GREATER THAN 60 MILES AN HOUR



LAT...LON 3867 9953 3846 9955 3846 9907 3867 9909

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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
May 8, 5:18 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCRush42 min
May 8, 6:01 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCRush44 min
May 8, 6:17 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCPawnee43 min
May 8, 6:58 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCPawnee47 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.