Alert archive / Kansas / Tornado Warnings in 2001
Tornado Warning 16, NWS Dodge City, KS
NWS Dodge City, KS issued this tornado warning at Jun 13, 2001, 9:13 PM CDT for Pawnee County, Kansas. It was in force for 32 min. 3 reports came from inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named, with what was reported inside it.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 13, 2001, 9:13 PM CDT (02:13 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 13, 2001, 9:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 32 min
- Issued by
- NWS Dodge City, KS
- Area
- Whole counties
County Pawnee County, KS
The radar
The Dodge City radar (KDDC), 79 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 02:16 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, 9:17 PM CDT | Tornado F0 | Burdett, KS | Nothing to damage but was probably stronger than F0. This tornado crossed into the county from Hodgeman county (same as the 2012-2017 in Hodgeman). |
| Jun 13, 9:25 PM CDT | Hail 1.75 | Burdett, KS | Lasted 15 minutes |
| Jun 13, 9:28 PM CDT | Tornado F0 | Rozel, KS | Brief contact with the ground. |
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, 2.2 hours before the alert went out and 74 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 140217 TORDDC KSC145-140245- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS 913 PM CDT WED JUN 13 2001 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN DODGE CITY HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... NORTHWESTERN PAWNEE COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL KANSAS * UNTIL 945 PM CDT * AT 913 PM CDT DODGE CITY DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A DEVELOPING TORNADO 6 MILES WEST OF BURDETT. THIS DANGEROUS STORM WAS MOVING NORTHEAST AT 30 MPH. * SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED BURDETT AT 920 PM CDT ROZEL AT 930 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. 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, 9:04 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DDC | Hodgeman | 26 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.