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Tornado Warning 11, NWS Dodge City, KS

May 20, 2001Stafford County, Kansas

NWS Dodge City, KS issued this tornado warning at May 20, 2001, 8:22 PM CDT for Stafford County, Kansas. It was in force for 23 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
May 20, 2001, 8:22 PM CDT (01:22 UTC)
Expired
May 20, 2001, 8:45 PM CDT
In force
23 min
Issued by
NWS Dodge City, KS
Area
Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

County Stafford County, KS

The radar

The Dodge City radar (KDDC), 113 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:23 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, 1.4 hours before the alert went out and 107 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 2001-05-21Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 184 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 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 2001-05-21The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 69 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
184 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-80 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1698 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
24 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
69 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
91 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.8

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The text

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

000 
WFUS53 KDDC 210123
TORDDC
KSC185-210145-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS
822 PM CDT SUN MAY 20 2001

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN DODGE CITY HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  STAFFORD COUNTY IN KANSAS

* UNTIL 845 PM CDT

* AT 822 PM CDT DODGE CITY DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED AND SPOTTERS  
  REPORTED A TORNADO 8 MILES NORTH OF ST. JOHN. THE TORNADO WAS   
 MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 15 MPH.

* SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED
  ST. JOHN AT 835 PM CDT
  STAFFORD AT 845 PM CDT

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 3822 9891 3782 9891 3783 9850 3824 9849

&

BURGERT

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
May 20, 8:45 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCStafford30 min
May 20, 9:48 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCGrant, Stevens42 min
May 20, 10:26 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCSeward, Stevens49 min
May 20, 11:07 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCSeward38 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.