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Tornado Warning 2, NWS Dodge City, KS

April 6, 2001Grant County, Stevens County, Kansas

NWS Dodge City, KS issued this tornado warning at Apr 6, 2001, 5:39 PM CDT for Grant County, Stevens County, Kansas. It was in force for 36 min. 3 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: Apr 6, 2001, 5:39 PM CDT (22:39 UTC)
Expired: Apr 6, 2001, 6:15 PM CDT
In force: 36 min
Issued by: NWS Dodge City, KS
Area: Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

Counties Grant County, KS, Stevens County, KS

The radar

The Dodge City radar (KDDC), 128 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:41 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
Apr 6, 5:47 PM CDT	Tornado F2	Ulysses, KS	Tornado crossed into Grant county from Stevens county at 1647. Three pivot sprinklers were destroyed, 2 grain bins, a silo, machine shed and horse trailer were also damaged or destroyed. A roof was taken off a building and an empty rail car was overturned.
Apr 6, 5:56 PM CDT	Hail 0.75	Ulysses, KS
Apr 6, 6:00 PM CDT	Thunderstorm Wind 52 E	Modoc, 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
Apr 6, 4:15 PM CDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	5 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 12:00Z, 10.7 hours before the alert went out and 135 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: 0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL: 2143 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 69 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 52 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 370 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 062239
TORDDC
KSC067-189-062315-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS
539 PM CDT FRI APR 6 2001

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN DODGE CITY HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  GRANT COUNTY IN KANSAS
  NORTHWESTERN STEVENS COUNTY IN KANSAS

* UNTIL 615 PM CDT

* AT 539 PM CDT DODGE CITY DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED AND SPOTTERS
  REPORTED A TORNADO 19 MILES SOUTH OF ULYSSES...OR ABOUT 11 MILES
  NORTHWEST OF HUGOTON. THE TORNADO WAS MOVING NORTHEAST AT 55 MPH.

* SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED
  HICKOK AT 555 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 3733 10154 3723 10141 3765 10108 3772 10130

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KRUSE

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Apr 6, 12:44 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Lane	46 min
Apr 6, 4:35 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	DDC	Hamilton, Stanton	25 min
Apr 6, 5:01 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Hamilton	14 min
Apr 6, 5:06 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Morton	24 min
Apr 6, 5:15 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Stanton	45 min
Apr 6, 5:26 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Grant, Stevens	64 min
Apr 6, 5:30 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Hamilton	45 min
Apr 6, 5:35 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Kearny	40 min
Apr 6, 5:58 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Finney, Haskell, Seward	47 min
Apr 6, 5:58 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Scott	47 min
Apr 6, 6:20 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Gray, Meade	85 min
Apr 6, 6:54 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Clark, Ford, Hodgeman	66 min
Apr 6, 6:54 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Finney	66 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.