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Tornado Warning 1, NWS Dodge City, KS

April 6, 2001Hamilton County, Stanton County, Kansas

NWS Dodge City, KS issued this tornado warning at Apr 6, 2001, 3:35 PM MDT for Hamilton County, Stanton County, Kansas. It was in force for 25 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: Apr 6, 2001, 3:35 PM MDT (21:35 UTC)
Expired: Apr 6, 2001, 4:00 PM MDT
In force: 25 min
Issued by: NWS Dodge City, KS
Area: Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

Counties Hamilton County, KS, Stanton County, KS

The radar

The Dodge City radar (KDDC), 164 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:37 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
Apr 6, 3:50 PM MDT	Hail 0.88	Syracuse, KS
Apr 6, 4:05 PM MDT	Hail 1	Syracuse, 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 watch it was issued in

The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.

Issued	Product	Office	Lasted
Apr 6, 3:15 PM MDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	5 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 12:00Z, 9.6 hours before the alert went out and 170 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: 2143 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 69 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 52 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 370 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.8

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

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

000 
WFUS53 KDDC 062136
TORDDC
KSC075-187-062200-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS
335 PM MDT FRI APR 6 2001

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN DODGE CITY HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  HAMILTON COUNTY IN KANSAS
  NORTH CENTRAL STANTON COUNTY IN KANSAS

* UNTIL 400 PM MDT(500 PM CDT)

* AT 335 PM MDT(435 PM CDT) DODGE CITY DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  RAPIDLY ROTATING THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO 20
  MILES SOUTH OF SYRACUSE...OR ABOUT 11 MILES NORTHWEST OF JOHNSON
  CITY...MOVING NORTH AT 65 MPH.

* SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED
  SYRACUSE AT 355 PM MDT

THIS IS A DANGEROUS STORM. MOVE INTO YOUR TORNADO SHELTER NOW IF NO
UNDERGROUND SHELTER IS AVAILABLE...MOVE INTO AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE
LOWEST FLOOR OF A STURDY STRUCTURE. STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS. ABANDON
MOBILE HOMES...WHICH OFFER NO PROTECTION FROM A TORNADO.

LAT...LON 3761 10199 3758 10176 3831 10155 3836 10183

KRUSE

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Apr 6, 11:44 AM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Lane	46 min
Apr 6, 4:01 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Hamilton	14 min
Apr 6, 4:06 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Morton	24 min
Apr 6, 4:15 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Stanton	45 min
Apr 6, 4:26 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Grant, Stevens	64 min
Apr 6, 4:30 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Hamilton	45 min
Apr 6, 4:35 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Kearny	40 min
Apr 6, 4:39 PM MDT	Tornado Warning	DDC	Grant, Stevens	36 min
Apr 6, 4:58 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Finney, Haskell, Seward	47 min
Apr 6, 4:58 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Scott	47 min
Apr 6, 5:20 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Gray, Meade	85 min
Apr 6, 5:54 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Clark, Ford, Hodgeman	66 min
Apr 6, 5:54 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Finney	66 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.