Alert archive / Kansas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2002

Severe Thunderstorm Warning 1, NWS Dodge City, KS

March 18, 2002Haskell County, Kansas

NWS Dodge City, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 18, 2002, 4:50 PM CST for Haskell County, Kansas. It was in force for 40 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued
Mar 18, 2002, 4:50 PM CST (22:50 UTC)
Expired
Mar 18, 2002, 5:30 PM CST
In force
40 min
Issued by
NWS Dodge City, KS
Area
Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Haskell County, KS

The radar

The Dodge City radar (KDDC), 78 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:51 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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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, 10.8 hours before the alert went out and 84 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Dodge City, at 12:00Z on 2002-03-18Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Dodge City, at 12:00Z on 2002-03-18The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 273 square meters per square second.1939587897117136156175Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
3291 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
71 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
273 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
280 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The text

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

000 
WUUS53 KDDC 182250
SVRDDC
KSC081-182330-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS
450 PM CST MON MAR 18 2002

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN DODGE CITY HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  HASKELL COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST KANSAS

* UNTIL 530 PM CST

* AT 450 PM CST...DODGE CITY DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE
  THUNDERSTORM OVER HASKELL COUNTY...OR ABOUT 7 MILES NORTH OF
  SUBLETTE...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 30 MPH.

* SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED
  RURAL HASKELL COUNTY AT 500 PM CST

THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM IS CAPABLE OF PRODUCING...
  HAIL THE SIZE OF NICKELS,

REPORT SEVERE WEATHER TO THE NEAREST LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCY. THEY
WILL RELAY YOUR REPORT TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORECAST
OFFICE IN DODGE CITY.

LAT...LON 3758 10100 3746 10081 3765 10067 3773 10070
          3773 10085

FINCH

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.