Alert archive / Kansas / Tornado Warnings in 2001
Tornado Warning 15, NWS Dodge City, KS
NWS Dodge City, KS issued this tornado warning at Jun 13, 2001, 9:04 PM CDT for Hodgeman County, Kansas. It was in force for 26 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
- Jun 13, 2001, 9:04 PM CDT (02:04 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 13, 2001, 9:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 26 min
- Issued by
- NWS Dodge City, KS
- Area
- Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction
County Hodgeman County, KS
The radar
The Dodge City radar (KDDC), 48 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 02:05 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 13, 9:12 PM CDT | Tornado F0 | Hanston, KS | Nothing to damage but was probably stronger than F0. This tornado moved into Pawnee county (same as 2017-2021 tornado in Pawnee county). |
| Jun 13, 9:20 PM CDT | Hail 1 | Hanston, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 13, 6:00 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 00:00Z, 2.1 hours before the alert went out and 45 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
- 901 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -65 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 2625 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 55 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 85 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 325 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 6.1
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WFUS53 KDDC 140208 TORDDC KSC083-140230- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS 904 PM CDT WED JUN 13 2001 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN DODGE CITY HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... NORTHEASTERN HODGEMAN COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST KANSAS * UNTIL 930 PM CDT * AT 904 PM CDT DODGE CITY DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A DEVELOPING TORNADO 3 MILES NORTHEAST OF HANSTON. THIS DANGEROUS STORM WAS MOVING NORTHEAST AT 20 MPH. * SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED GRAY AT 915 PM CDT RURAL RESIDENTS OF NORTHEAST HODGEMAN COUNTY 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 3815 9991 3802 9975 3819 9954 3826 9965 01
The office that day
Everything else NWS Dodge City, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 13, 8:42 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Hodgeman | 48 min |
| Jun 13, 8:56 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Ness, Pawnee, Rush | 64 min |
| Jun 13, 9:13 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DDC | Pawnee | 32 min |
| Jun 13, 9:21 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Finney, Hodgeman, Ness | 54 min |
| Jun 13, 9:24 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DDC | Rush | 36 min |
| Jun 13, 9:54 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DDC | Hodgeman | 36 min |
| Jun 13, 9:59 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DDC | Rush | 31 min |
| Jun 13, 10:09 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Ness | 66 min |
| Jun 13, 10:10 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Ellis | 65 min |
| Jun 13, 10:14 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DDC | Ellis | 31 min |
| Jun 13, 10:19 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DDC | Ness | 41 min |
| Jun 13, 10:59 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Ellis, Rush | 61 min |
| Jun 13, 11:13 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Trego | 47 min |
| Jun 13, 11:35 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Ness | 25 min |
| Jun 13, 11:55 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Ellis | 50 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.