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Tornado Warning 13, NWS Dodge City, KS

May 29, 2001Seward County, Kansas

NWS Dodge City, KS issued this tornado warning at May 29, 2001, 7:44 PM CDT for Seward County, Kansas. It was in force for 46 min. 1 report 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 29, 2001, 7:44 PM CDT (00:44 UTC)
Expired: May 29, 2001, 8:30 PM CDT
In force: 46 min
Issued by: NWS Dodge City, KS
Area: Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

County Seward County, KS

The radar

The Dodge City radar (KDDC), 104 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:48 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 29, 7:51 PM CDT	Tornado F0	Hayne, KS	Power poles broken off.

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
May 29, 4:45 PM CDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	6 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 00:00Z, 0.7 hours before the alert went out and 109 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: 1378 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -14 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 710 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 37 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 217 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 362 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 2.3
Supercell composite: 19.2

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The text

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

000 
WFUS53 KDDC 300045
TORDDC

KSC175-300130-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS
744 PM CDT TUE MAY 29 2001

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN DODGE CITY HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  CENTRAL SEWARD COUNTY IN KANSAS

* UNTIL 830 PM CDT

* AT 744 PM CDT...DODGE CITY DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED THE MOST        
  LIKELY AREA FOR A TORNADO 14 MILES NORTHWEST OF HAYNE...OR ABOUT 8 
  MILES NORTHEAST OF WOODS. THE ASSOCIATED THUNDERSTORM WAS MOVING   
  SOUTHEAST AT 25 MPH.

* SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED
  HAYNE AT 810 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 3730 10104 3712 10103 3700 10075 3700 10064
          3714 10064

&

JOHNSON

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 29, 7:14 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Ford, Hodgeman	46 min
May 29, 7:21 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Edwards, Pawnee	54 min
May 29, 7:21 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Kiowa	54 min
May 29, 7:29 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Clark, Meade, Seward	61 min
May 29, 7:38 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Haskell	37 min
May 29, 8:15 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Edwards, Kiowa	45 min
May 29, 8:31 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Clark, Meade	44 min

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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.