Alert archive / Kansas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2001
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 99, NWS Dodge City, KS
NWS Dodge City, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 8, 2001, 5:18 PM CDT for Rush County, Kansas. It was in force for 42 min. 3 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, 5:18 PM CDT (22:18 UTC)
- Expired
- May 8, 2001, 6:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 42 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 22:22 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
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 8, 5:21 PM CDT | Hail 0.75 | La Crosse, KS | |
| May 8, 5:32 PM CDT | Hail 0.75 | La Crosse, KS | |
| May 8, 6:07 PM CDT | Hail 1 | Rush Center, 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, 10.3 hours before the alert went out and 102 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.
- 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
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WUUS53 KDDC 082218 SVRDDC KSC165-082300- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS 518 PM CDT TUE MAY 8 2001 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN DODGE CITY HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... RUSH COUNTY IN KANSAS * UNTIL 600 PM CDT * AT 518 PM CDT...5 MILES SOUTHWEST OF LORETTA...MOVING EAST AT 20 MPH. * SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED LACROSSE BY 520 PM CDT LIEBENTHAL BY 520 PM CDT THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM IS CAPABLE OF PRODUCING... HAIL THE SIZE OF QUARTERS DAMAGING WIND GREATER THAN 60 MILES AN HOUR HEAVY RAINS FLOOD ROADS QUICKLY SO DO NOT DRIVE INTO AREAS WHERE WATER COVERS THE ROAD. 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 3862 9938 3841 9956 3844 9907 3867 9908 16
The office that day
Everything else NWS Dodge City, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 8, 4:32 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Rush | 43 min |
| May 8, 6:01 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Rush | 44 min |
| May 8, 6:17 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Pawnee | 43 min |
| May 8, 6:58 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Pawnee | 47 min |
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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.