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Tornado Warning 8, NWS Dodge City, KS

April 21, 2001Rush County, Kansas

NWS Dodge City, KS issued this tornado warning at Apr 21, 2001, 8:15 PM CDT for Rush County, Kansas. It was in force for 30 min. 1 report 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, 8:15 PM CDT (01:15 UTC)
Expired: Apr 21, 2001, 8:45 PM CDT
In force: 30 min
Issued by: NWS Dodge City, KS
Area: Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

County Rush County, KS

The radar

The Dodge City radar (KDDC), 98 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:15 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, 8:40 PM CDT	Hail 1	Rush Center, 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 21, 7:15 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	5 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 00:00Z, 1.3 hours before the alert went out and 94 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 220117
TORDDC
KSC165-220145-

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

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN DODGE CITY HAS ISSUED A

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

* UNTIL 845 PM CDT

* AT 817 PM CDT DODGE CITY DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A RAPIDLY ROTATING
  THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO 9 MILES SOUTH OF
  TIMKEN...OR ABOUT 4 MILES NORTHEAST OF ASH VALLEY...MOVING
  NORTHEAST AT 25 MPH.

* SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED
  TIMKEN AT 825 PM CDT
  SHAFFER AT 835 PM CDT
  OTIS AT 840 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 3845 9937 3834 9935 3835 9904 3857 9905

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, 7:35 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	DDC	Pawnee	40 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, 8:55 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

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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.