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Tornado Warning 7, NWS Dodge City, KS

April 21, 2001Pawnee County, Kansas

NWS Dodge City, KS issued this tornado warning at Apr 21, 2001, 7:35 PM CDT for Pawnee County, Kansas. It was in force for 40 min. 4 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 21, 2001, 7:35 PM CDT (00:35 UTC)
Expired: Apr 21, 2001, 8:15 PM CDT
In force: 40 min
Issued by: NWS Dodge City, KS
Area: Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

County Pawnee County, KS

The radar

The Dodge City radar (KDDC), 97 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:35 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 21, 7:40 PM CDT	Tornado F2	Rush Center, KS	Two farms received heavy damage (grain bins, roofs, shed and vehicle)
Apr 21, 7:45 PM CDT	Hail 1	Rush Center, KS
Apr 21, 8:03 PM CDT	Hail 1.75	Bison, KS	Baseball hail reported in the vicinity
Apr 21, 8:07 PM CDT	Tornado F0	Rush Center, KS	Stayed away from objects/things

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 21, 7:15 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	5 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 00:00Z, 0.6 hours before the alert went out and 92 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: 1118 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -11 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1940 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 62 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 181 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 365 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.1
Supercell composite: 12.2

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The text

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

000 
WFUS53 KDDC 220035
TORDDC
KSC145-220115-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS
735 PM CDT SAT APR 21 2001

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN DODGE CITY HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  SOUTHERN RUSH COUNTY IN KANSAS

* UNTIL 815 PM CDT

* AT 735 PM CDT DODGE CITY DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A RAPIDLY ROTATING
  THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO 9 MILES SOUTH OF RUSH
  CENTER...OR ABOUT 9 MILES WEST OF ASH VALLEY...MOVING NORTH AT 25
  MPH.

* SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED
  RUSH CENTER AT 745 PM CDT
  TIMKEN AT 750 PM CDT
  BISON AT 755 PM CDT
  OTIS AT 800 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. 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.

LAT...LON 3837 9948 3825 9932 3851 9893 3868 9914

BURGERT

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Apr 21, 7:07 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Rush	53 min
Apr 21, 7:32 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Hodgeman, Ness, Pawnee	43 min
Apr 21, 7:58 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Ellis	62 min
Apr 21, 8:00 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Rush	45 min
Apr 21, 8:15 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	DDC	Rush	30 min
Apr 21, 8:55 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Seward	35 min
Apr 21, 9:03 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Haskell	42 min
Apr 21, 9:03 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Rush	47 min
Apr 21, 9:11 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	DDC	Ellis, Rush	49 min
Apr 21, 9:23 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Gray	52 min
Apr 21, 9:45 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Haskell	45 min
Apr 21, 10:00 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Ellis, Rush	45 min
Apr 21, 10:45 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Seward	45 min
Apr 21, 11:05 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Meade	40 min
Apr 22, 12:22 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Ford	38 min
Apr 22, 7:08 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Hamilton	52 min
Apr 22, 7:09 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Scott	21 min
Apr 22, 7:26 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Kiowa	34 min
Apr 22, 7:32 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Morton, Stanton	43 min
Apr 22, 8:19 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Hamilton	41 min
Apr 22, 9:23 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Finney, Grant, Kearny	52 min
Apr 22, 9:46 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Scott	44 min
Apr 22, 10:09 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Finney	21 min
Apr 22, 10:34 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Lane, Scott	26 min
Apr 22, 1:27 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Barber	48 min
Apr 22, 1:42 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Pratt	33 min
Apr 22, 2:24 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Pratt	36 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.