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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 102, NWS Dodge City, KS

May 24, 2002Grant County, Stevens County, Kansas

NWS Dodge City, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 24, 2002, 2:31 AM CDT for Grant County, Stevens County, Kansas. It was in force for 44 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, 2:31 AM CDT (07:31 UTC)
Expired: May 24, 2002, 3:15 AM CDT
In force: 44 min
Issued by: NWS Dodge City, KS
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

Counties Grant County, KS, Stevens County, KS

The radar

The Dodge City radar (KDDC), 127 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 07:34 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, 3:00 AM CDT	Hail 1	Ulysses, KS	The hail almost completely covered the ground.

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, 7.5 hours before the alert went out and 133 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: 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

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

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

000 
WUUS53 KDDC 240731
SVRDDC
KSC067-189-240815-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS
231 AM CDT FRI MAY 24 2002

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN DODGE CITY HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  GRANT COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST KANSAS
  NORTHERN STEVENS COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST KANSAS

* UNTIL 315 AM CDT

* AT 231 AM CDT...DODGE CITY DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE
  THUNDERSTORM 9 MILES NORTHWEST OF MOSCOW...OR ABOUT 14 MILES SOUTH
  OF ULYSSES...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 25 MPH.

* SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED
  MOSCOW AT 240 AM CDT
  ULYSSES AT 245 AM CDT
  CAVE AT 250 AM CDT
  HICKOK AT 255 AM CDT
  RYUS AT 300 AM CDT

THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM IS CAPABLE OF PRODUCING...
  HAIL THE SIZE OF NICKELS,
  WIND UP TO 60 MILES AN HOUR,
  VERY FREQUENT AND DEADLY CLOUD-TO-GROUND LIGHTNING,

THIS WARNING REPLACES THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING PREVIOUSLY
ISSUED.

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 3751 10152 3722 10153 3732 10109 3771 10111

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, 2:24 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Morton	51 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.