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Tornado Warning 6, NWS Dodge City, KS

April 14, 2001Pratt County, Kansas

NWS Dodge City, KS issued this tornado warning at Apr 14, 2001, 6:37 PM CDT for Pratt County, Kansas. It was in force for 23 min. No storm report in the archive falls 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.

The facts

Issued: Apr 14, 2001, 6:37 PM CDT (23:37 UTC)
Expired: Apr 14, 2001, 7:00 PM CDT
In force: 23 min
Issued by: NWS Dodge City, KS
Area: Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

County Pratt County, KS

The radar

The Wichita radar (KICT), 107 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:40 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.

The nearest sounding before it

Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 12:00Z, 11.6 hours before the alert went out and 111 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: 1389 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 54 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 435 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 545 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 1.7

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

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

000 
WFUS53 KDDC 142337
TORDDC
KSC151-150000-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS
637 PM CDT SAT APR 14 2001

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN DODGE CITY HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  EASTERN PRATT COUNTY IN KANSAS

* UNTIL 700 PM CDT

* AT 637 PM CDT DODGE CITY DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED AND SPOTTERS
  REPORTED A TORNADO 3 MILES SOUTH OF CAIRO. THE TORNADO WAS MOVING
  EAST AT 35 MPH.

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. IF YOU ARE
CAUGHT OUTSIDE...MOVE TO A STURDY BUILDING OR UNDERGROUND SHELTER. AS
A LAST RESORT...SEEK SHELTER IN A DITCH...CULVERT OR LOW SPOT AND
COVER YOUR HEAD WITH YOUR HANDS.

LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING THUNDERSTORM WINDS ARE ALSO EXPECTED WITH
THIS STORM.

LAT...LON 3776 9877 3748 9879 3748 9847 3774 9847

&

GERARD

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Apr 14, 4:32 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Barber	58 min
Apr 14, 4:50 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Pawnee	40 min
Apr 14, 5:00 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Kiowa	45 min
Apr 14, 5:18 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	DDC	Pawnee, Rush	27 min
Apr 14, 5:28 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	DDC	Kiowa, Pratt	32 min
Apr 14, 5:44 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Pawnee, Stafford	46 min
Apr 14, 5:59 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	DDC	Pratt	31 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.