1 tornado, as filed by the National Weather Service.
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The local office's own words before the first event, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.
NWS Dodge City, KS wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at May 19, 2:10 AM CST, 9 hours 7 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS 310 AM CDT SAT MAY 19 2001 UPPER WAVE OVER NORTHWESTERN MEXICO THIS MORNING PER THE WATER VAPOR LOOP MOVING TOWARD THE CWA. WITH LOW-LEVEL MOISTURE ALSO ON THE INCREASE AND THE RESIDUAL FRONTAL BOUNDARY TO OUR SOUTH MOVING NORTH AS A WARM FRONT, STAGE SEEMS TO BE SETTING UP FOR AN INCREASE IN THUNDERSTORM ACTIVITY THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT. AT THIS POINT, SEE LITTLE REASON TO DISAGREE WITH NOT ONLY ONGOING FORECAST BUT ALSO WITH THE LATEST NUMERICAL GUIDANCE. UPSHOT IS THAT I WILL MAKE RELATIVELY FEW CHANGES TO THE FORECAST. GIVEN ANTICIPATED MOIST ATMOSPHERE EXPECTED THROUGH SUNDAY MORNING, WILL CONTINUE THE MENTION OF HEAVY RAINFALL POSSIBLE FOR SATURDAY NIGHT. FOR SUNDAY, WITH GREATEST LOW-LEVEL MOISTURE OVER THE CENTRAL AND EASTERN CWA, AND FRONTAL CONVERGENCE A PLAYER DURING THE AFTERNOON, WILL PLAN TO GRADIENT POPS FROM LOW TO HIGH WEST TO EAST. BIGGEST CHALLENGE THIS CYCLE CENTERS AROUND TEMPS FOR SUNDAY. WITH UPPER WAVE JUST OFF TO OUR EAST DURING THE AFTERNOON, THE WESTERN CWA WINDS SHOULD BECOME MORE SOUTHWEST WITH TIME. FURTHER, WITH AMPLE INSOLATION EXPECTED OVER THE WESTERN CWA WILL PLAN TO LEAVE THE MID 80S FORECAST ALONE THIS AREA. EXTENDED DISCUSSION... LATEST AVN RUN CONTINUES TO SUPPORT A SIGNIFICANT COLD FRONT LATER SUNDAY. ORIGIN IS PARTLY SIBERIAN, ALTHOUGH MODIFIED, AND SEE NO REASON WHY TEMPS WOULD BE WARMER THAN THE 50S ON MONDAY. THUS, WILL LOWER MAX TEMPS THEN. GOING FCST HAS UPPER 30S TO MID 40S MONDAY NIGHT WITH MID 60S TO MID 70S FOR TUESDAY. DAY SHIFT MAY WANT TO LOOK AT THIS CAREFULLY AS TEMPS MAY BE A CAT OR TWO LOWER THAN CURRENTLY FORECAST. OTHER THAN THE CHANGE FOR MONDAY, WILL LEAVE THE REMAINDER AS IS. PRELIMINARY GUIDANCE FOR COORDINATION ONLY. OFFICIAL FORECASTS ARE CONTAINED WITHIN THE DODGE CITY ZONE FORECAST. DDC 078/060 081/047 056 6+6 GCK 079/059 081/046 055 6+6 EHA 079/059 086/044 058 593 LBL 079/061 082/049 059 6+6 HYS 078/063 079/043 053 4+7 P28 081/064 080/050 059 4+8 .DDC...NONE. MCCAMMON/HUTTON
KSZ064-078-191815- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS 1216 PM CDT SAT MAY 19 2001 ...FUNNEL CLOUDS WILL BE POSSIBLE OVER SOUTHERN HODGEMAN COUNTY... A WEAK THUNDERSTORM WAS OCCURRING ALONG THE FORD AND HODGEMAN COUNTY LINE. THIS THUNDERSTORM HAS A HISTORY OF PRODUCING A FEW FUNNEL CLOUDS FROM THE TIME IT DEVELOPED NORTHWEST OF DODGE CITY. THE FUNNEL CLOUDS HAVE BEEN FORMING AND DISSIPATING WITHOUT TOUCHING THE GROUND. THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN DODGE CITY IS CONTINUING TO MONITOR THE STORM FOR INTENSIFICATION AND WILL ISSUE WARNINGS IF NECESSARY. FOR ADDITIONAL INFORMATION YOU CAN CHECK OUT OUR WEBSITE AT: http://www.crh.noaa.gov/dsdc/ GERARD
The Dodge City radar (KDDC), 11 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 17:15 UTC.
1 tornado. Local standard time, as filed.
Brief tornado lasted two minutes. Funnel was present for 5 minutes.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
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