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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 103, NWS Dodge City, KS

May 24, 2002Kearny County, Kansas

NWS Dodge City, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 24, 2002, 2:59 AM CDT for Kearny County, Kansas. It was in force for 46 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: May 24, 2002, 2:59 AM CDT (07:59 UTC)
Expired: May 24, 2002, 3:45 AM CDT
In force: 46 min
Issued by: NWS Dodge City, KS
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Kearny County, KS

The radar

The Dodge City radar (KDDC), 126 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 07:58 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 00:00Z, 8.0 hours before the alert went out and 132 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

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The text

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

000 
WUUS53 KDDC 240759
SVRDDC
KSC093-240845-

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

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN DODGE CITY HAS ISSUED A

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

* UNTIL 345 AM CDT

* AT 259 AM CDT...DODGE CITY DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE
  THUNDERSTORM 6 MILES NORTHWEST OF LAKIN...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 35
  MPH.

* SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED
  RURAL KEARNY COUNTY AT 310 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,

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 3823 10152 3777 10151 3788 10111 3824 10112

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, 2:31 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Grant, Stevens	44 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

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Kansas, 2002 Every severe thunderstorm warning in 2002

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.