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Tornado Warning 22, NWS Dodge City, KS

June 20, 2001Barber County, Pratt County, Kansas

NWS Dodge City, KS issued this tornado warning at Jun 20, 2001, 8:44 PM CDT for Barber County, Pratt County, Kansas. It was in force for 31 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: Jun 20, 2001, 8:44 PM CDT (01:44 UTC)
Expired: Jun 20, 2001, 9:15 PM CDT
In force: 31 min
Issued by: NWS Dodge City, KS
Area: Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

Counties Barber County, KS, Pratt County, KS

The radar

The Vance AFB radar (KVNX), 91 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:47 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 20, 8:46 PM CDT	Hail 1	Sawyer, KS
Jun 20, 9:15 PM CDT	Thunderstorm Wind 80 E	Medicine Lodge, KS	Trees down.
Jun 20, 9:15 PM CDT	Thunderstorm Wind 80 E	Medicine Lodge, KS	Severe trees blown down.

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 nearest sounding before it

Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 00:00Z, 1.7 hours before the alert went out and 114 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: 1362 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -70 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 956 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 41 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 164 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 395 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 2.2
Supercell composite: 18.3

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

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

000 
WFUS53 KDDC 210145
TORDDC

KSC007-151-210215-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS
844 PM CDT WED JUN 20 2001

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN DODGE CITY HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  NORTHEASTERN BARBER COUNTY IN KANSAS
  SOUTH CENTRAL PRATT COUNTY IN KANSAS

* UNTIL 915 PM CDT.

* AT 844 PM CDT...DODGE CITY DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED THE MOST LIKELY
  AREA OF A TORNADO 3 MILES SOUTHEAST OF COATS. THE ASSOCIATED
  THUNDERSTORM WAS MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 20 MPH.

* SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED
  ISABEL AT 905 PM CDT
  MEDICINE LODGE AT 915 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 3757 9879 3742 9891 3721 9852 3740 9837

GERARD

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 20, 7:38 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Kiowa, Pratt	67 min
Jun 20, 8:19 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Barber	41 min
Jun 20, 9:13 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Barber	62 min
Jun 20, 10:48 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Meade	57 min
Jun 20, 11:03 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Clark	57 min
Jun 20, 11:11 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Pratt	64 min
Jun 20, 11:29 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Comanche	61 min
Jun 20, 11:36 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Stafford	39 min
Jun 20, 11:56 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Barber	64 min
Jun 21, 12:02 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Clark	58 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.