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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 120, NWS Dodge City, KS

May 26, 2002Ellis County, Kansas

NWS Dodge City, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 26, 2002, 9:10 PM CDT for Ellis County, Kansas. It was in force for 35 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 26, 2002, 9:10 PM CDT (02:10 UTC)
Expired: May 26, 2002, 9:45 PM CDT
In force: 35 min
Issued by: NWS Dodge City, KS
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Ellis County, KS

The radar

The Dodge City radar (KDDC), 136 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 02:10 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.

Did it verify

Not verified. The Iowa Environmental Mesonet's Cow found no qualifying storm report inside this severe thunderstorm warning while it was in force. That is not proof nothing happened: reports are thin where few people live.

Cow counts a report within 15 km of the polygon while the warning was in force: a tornado for a tornado warning; hail of 1 inch or more, a gust of 58 mph or more or wind damage for a severe thunderstorm warning; a flash flood report for a flash flood warning.

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, 8:00 PM CDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	5 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 00:00Z, 2.2 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: 1171 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -3 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 2271 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 30 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 17 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 106 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 1.8

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The text

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

000 
WUUS53 KDDC 270210
SVRDDC
KSC051-270245-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS
910 PM CDT SUN MAY 26 2002

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN DODGE CITY HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  SOUTHEASTERN ELLIS COUNTY IN CENTRAL KANSAS

* UNTIL 945 PM CDT

* AT 910 PM CDT...DODGE CITY DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE
  THUNDERSTORM 7 MILES SOUTH OF WALKER...OR ABOUT 8 MILES SOUTHEAST
  OF VICTORIA...MOVING NORTH AT 20 MPH.

* SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED
  WALKER AT 920 PM CDT

THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM IS CAPABLE OF PRODUCING...
  DAMAGING HAIL THE SIZE OF GOLFBALLS,

LAT...LON 3872 9924 3870 9905 3892 9905 3893 9912

REITER

What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this severe thunderstorm warning went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.

NWS Dodge City, KS wrote its last area forecast discussion before this severe thunderstorm warning went out at May 26, 1:45 PM CDT, 7 hours 25 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, May 26, 1:45 PM CDT, 7 hours 25 minutes before

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS
145 PM CDT SUN MAY 26 2002

VERY COLD AIR ALOFT FOR LATE MAY, WEAK CAPPING DUE TO WEAK, NARROW
BAND OF WESTERLIES, AND AMPLE INSTABILITY WILL LEAD TO AFTERNOON
THUNDERSTORMS TODAY ALONG THE DRYLINE IN WEST CENTRAL AND NORTHWEST
KS. THE STORMS SHOULD DEVELOP IN THE WEST BY 4 PM AND THEN SLOWLY
EVOLVE INTO A LARGER CLUSTER OF STORMS OVERNIGHT FURTHER EAST. SO
THE HIGHEST POPS TONIGHT WILL BE FROM DDC TO HAYS AND POINTS EAST
PER GOING FCST. THE UPPER LOW OVER BAJA WILL WOBBLE EAST INTO
KANSAS MONDAY AND MONDAY NIGHT. WITH COLD AIR ALOFT AND AMPLE
MOISTURE, AREAS OF THUNDERSTORMS ARE A GOOD BET. THE LOCATION OF
BOUNDARIES FROM TONIGHTS CONVECTION WILL PLAY AN IMPORTANT ROLE IN
WHERE CONVECTION FIRES MONDAY. CURRENT FCST LOOKS BASICALLY ON TRACK
WITH POPS AND TEMPS, AND ONLY MINOR ADJUSTMENTS WERE NEEDED.

DAYS 3-7...
MODELS CONTINUE TO BUILD RIDGE OVER EASTERN ROCKIES MID WEEK BEFORE
IT BEGINS TO BREAK DOWN NEXT WEEKEND. MAY BE A POSSIBILITY OF TSRA
OVER FAR WESTERN GROUPS FRIDAY-SATURDAY WITH LATE DAY STORMS IN
EASTERN COLORADO. HOWEVER, WILL CONTINUE TO KEEP THOSE DAYS DRY.
WILL INTRO CHANCE OF TSRA FOR SUNDAY WITH RIDGE BREAKING DOWN.  LOW
LEVEL MOISTURE NOT LOOKING TOO IMPRESSIVE ON AVN HOWEVER.

FINCH/15

PRELIMINARY GUIDANCE FOR COORDINATION ONLY. OFFICIAL FORECASTS ARE
CONTAINED WITHIN THE DODGE CITY ZONE FORECAST.

DDC   60  82  58  81 /  40  30  40  10
GCK   56  82  57  81 /  30  30  30  10
EHA   56  84  55  81 /  30  30  30  10
LBL   56  85  57  81 /  30  30  30  10
HYS   59  81  59  81 /  40  30  40  10
P28   62  82  62  82 /  50  40  40  20

.DDC...NONE.

In the hours before

Special weather statement, May 26, 8:32 PM CDT, 38 minutes before

KSZ043-044-061>063-074>077-084>087-270200-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS
832 PM CDT SUN MAY 26 2002

SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH NUMBER 337 HAS BEEN CANCELLED FOR THE
FOLLOWING COUNTIES IN WEST CENTRAL AND SOUTHWEST KANSAS...

SCOTT     LANE     HAMILTON     KEARNY     FINNEY     STANTON
GRANT     HASKELL  GRAY         MORTON     STEVENS    SEWARD
MEADE

THE THREAT FOR SEVERE WEATHER HAS ENDED FOR THESE COUNTIES.

ADDITIONAL WEATHER INFORMATION CAN BE FOUND ON OUR WEBSITE AT:
HTTP://WWW.CRH.NOAA.GOV/DDC

&&

GERARD

The office that day

Everything else NWS Dodge City, KS issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 26, 7:13 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Ness, Pawnee, Rush	47 min
May 26, 8:00 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Pawnee	45 min
May 26, 8:42 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Pawnee	33 min
May 26, 8:50 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Rush	10 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.