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Tornado Warning 20, NWS Dodge City, KS

June 13, 2001Ellis County, Kansas

NWS Dodge City, KS issued this tornado warning at Jun 13, 2001, 10:14 PM CDT for Ellis County, Kansas. It was in force for 31 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, 10:14 PM CDT (03:14 UTC)
Expired: Jun 13, 2001, 10:45 PM CDT
In force: 31 min
Issued by: NWS Dodge City, KS
Area: Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

County Ellis County, KS

The radar

The Dodge City radar (KDDC), 144 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 03:16 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, 10:15 PM CDT	Hail 0.88	Pfeifer, KS
Jun 13, 10:39 PM CDT	Hail 1.75	Gorham, 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, 3.2 hours before the alert went out and 140 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: 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

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

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

000 
WFUS53 KDDC 140317
TORDDC

KSC051-140345-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS
1014 PM CDT WED JUN 13 2001

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN DODGE CITY HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  SOUTHEASTERN ELLIS COUNTY IN CENTRAL KANSAS

* UNTIL 1045 PM CDT

* AT 1014 PM CDT DODGE CITY DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A RAPIDLY
  ROTATING THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO 7 MILES
  SOUTHWEST OF PFEIFER MOVING NORTHEAST AT 40 MPH.

* SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED
  PFEIFER AT 1020 PM CDT
  VICTORIA AT 1035 PM CDT
  WALKER AT 1040 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 3870 9937 3869 9907 3899 9865 3915 9889

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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, 9:13 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, 10:19 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.