Alert archive / Kansas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2002
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 111, NWS Dodge City, KS
NWS Dodge City, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 26, 2002, 6:09 PM CDT for Seward County, Kansas. It was in force for 66 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 26, 2002, 6:09 PM CDT (23:09 UTC)
- Expired
- May 26, 2002, 7:15 PM CDT
- In force
- 66 min
- Issued by
- NWS Dodge City, KS
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Seward County, KS
The radar
The Dodge City radar (KDDC), 108 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:09 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 26, 6:35 PM CDT | Hail 0.75 | Liberal, 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 watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 26, 3:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 12:00Z, 11.2 hours before the alert went out and 114 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
- 309 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -238 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 762 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 33 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -4 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 4 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- -0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000
WUUS53 KDDC 262309
SVRDDC
KSC175-270015-
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS
609 PM CDT SUN MAY 26 2002
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN DODGE CITY HAS ISSUED A
* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
SEWARD COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST KANSAS
* UNTIL 715 PM CDT
* AT 609 PM CDT...DODGE CITY DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE
THUNDERSTORM 16 MILES WEST OF LIBERAL...OR ABOUT 8 MILES SOUTHEAST
OF HUGOTON...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 20 MPH.
* SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED
LIBERAL AT 625 PM CDT
THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM IS CAPABLE OF PRODUCING...
HAIL THE SIZE OF QUARTERS,
DAMAGING WIND GREATER THAN 60 MILES AN HOUR,
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 3726 10106 3703 10105 3702 10089 3732 10077
3734 10104
FINCHThe office that day
Everything else NWS Dodge City, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 26, 5:18 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Kearny | 42 min |
| May 26, 5:24 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Morton | 51 min |
| May 26, 5:47 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Stevens | 58 min |
| May 26, 6:23 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Hodgeman, Ness, Pawnee, Rush | 52 min |
| May 26, 6:30 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Scott | 30 min |
| May 26, 6:41 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Ellis, Rush | 49 min |
| May 26, 6:57 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Meade | 63 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.