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Tornado Warning 12, NWS Dodge City, KS

May 27, 2001Ford County, Kansas

NWS Dodge City, KS issued this tornado warning at May 27, 2001, 5:36 PM CDT for Ford County, Kansas. It was in force for 39 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 27, 2001, 5:36 PM CDT (22:36 UTC)
Expired
May 27, 2001, 6:15 PM CDT
In force
39 min
Issued by
NWS Dodge City, KS
Area
Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

County Ford County, KS

The watch it was issued in

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

IssuedProductOfficeLasted
May 27, 3:30 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPC6 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 12:00Z, 10.6 hours before the alert went out and 17 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 2001-05-27Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1039 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 12:00Z on 2001-05-27The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 109 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
1039 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-103 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1347 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
51 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
109 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
131 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
2.6

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The text

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

000 
WFUS53 KDDC 272238
TORDDC

KSC057-272315-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS
536 PM CDT SUN MAY 27 2001

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN DODGE CITY HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  NORTHWESTERN FORD COUNTY IN KANSAS
  
* UNTIL 615 PM CDT

* AT 536 PM CDT DODGE CITY DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A RAPIDLY ROTATING
  THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO 21 MILES NORTHWEST     
  OF DODGE CITY...OR ABOUT 8 MILES NORTH OF HOWELL...MOVING          
  SOUTHEAST AT 25 MPH.

* SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED
  WRIGHT AT 610 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.

LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING THUNDERSTORM WINDS ARE ALSO EXPECTED WITH
THIS STORM.

LAT...LON 3793 10022 3782 10022 3771 9984 3791 9980

JOHNSON

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
May 27, 3:38 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCFinney52 min
May 27, 3:43 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCScott47 min
May 27, 4:06 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCFinney39 min
May 27, 4:12 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCHodgeman48 min
May 27, 4:24 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCStanton51 min
May 27, 4:28 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCFord, Gray47 min
May 27, 4:37 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCScott53 min
May 27, 4:58 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCFinney32 min
May 27, 4:58 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCStafford62 min
May 27, 5:13 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCEdwards47 min
May 27, 5:14 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCFord, Gray, Hodgeman61 min
May 27, 5:26 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCFinney64 min
May 27, 5:36 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCPawnee29 min
May 27, 5:43 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningDDCFinney, Ford, Gray, Hodgeman3 hr
May 27, 6:08 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCClark, Comanche, Kiowa, Meade67 min
May 27, 6:08 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCGrant, Haskell, Stevens67 min
May 27, 6:08 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCPratt67 min
May 27, 6:08 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCSeward67 min
May 27, 6:36 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCBarber39 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.