Alert archive / Kansas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2002
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 101, NWS Dodge City, KS
NWS Dodge City, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 24, 2002, 2:24 AM CDT for Morton County, Kansas. It was in force for 51 min. 1 report came from inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The outline as issued, with what was reported inside it.
The facts
- Issued
- May 24, 2002, 2:24 AM CDT (07:24 UTC)
- Expired
- May 24, 2002, 3:15 AM CDT
- In force
- 51 min
- Issued by
- NWS Dodge City, KS
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Morton County, KS
The radar
The Dodge City radar (KDDC), 175 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 07:28 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 24, 2:45 AM CDT | Hail 0.75 | Elkhart, 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 nearest sounding before it
Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 00:00Z, 7.4 hours before the alert went out and 181 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1332 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 61 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 192 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 260 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.1
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WUUS53 KDDC 240724 SVRDDC KSC129-240815- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS 224 AM CDT FRI MAY 24 2002 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN DODGE CITY HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... MORTON COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST KANSAS * UNTIL 315 AM CDT * AT 224 AM CDT...DODGE CITY DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 16 MILES SOUTHWEST OF RICHFIELD...OR ABOUT 11 MILES NORTHWEST OF ELKHART...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 20 MPH. * SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED RICHFIELD AT 255 AM CDT THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM IS CAPABLE OF PRODUCING... HAIL THE SIZE OF PENNIES, WIND UP TO 60 MILES AN HOUR, VERY FREQUENT AND DEADLY CLOUD-TO-GROUND LIGHTNING, FOR YOUR SAFETY SEEK A STURDY SHELTER IMMEDIATELY STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS. AVOID USING THE TELEPHONE OR OTHER ELECTRICAL EQUIPMENT WHILE LIGHTNING IS IN THE AREA. LAT...LON 3738 10206 3702 10203 3718 10156 3738 10155 JOHNSON
The office that day
Everything else NWS Dodge City, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 23, 8:59 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Meade | 61 min |
| May 24, 1:43 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Stevens | 47 min |
| May 24, 2:22 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Grant, Hamilton, Kearny, Stanton | 38 min |
| May 24, 2:31 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Grant, Stevens | 44 min |
| May 24, 2:59 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Kearny | 46 min |
| May 24, 3:15 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Grant, Haskell | 45 min |
| May 24, 6:23 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Kearny | 37 min |
| May 24, 6:33 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Pratt | 57 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.