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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 124, NWS Dodge City, KS

June 3, 2002Stanton County, Kansas

NWS Dodge City, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 3, 2002, 5:38 PM CDT for Stanton County, Kansas. It was in force for 52 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: Jun 3, 2002, 5:38 PM CDT (22:38 UTC)
Expired: Jun 3, 2002, 6:30 PM CDT
In force: 52 min
Issued by: NWS Dodge City, KS
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Stanton County, KS

The radar

The Dodge City radar (KDDC), 165 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:37 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
Jun 3, 5:45 PM CDT	Hail 0.75	Johnson, 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
Jun 3, 5:30 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	6 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 12:00Z, 10.6 hours before the alert went out and 171 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: 558 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -646 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 2029 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 12 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 182 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 200 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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The text

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

000 
WUUS53 KDDC 032238
SVRDDC
KSC187-032330-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS
538 PM CDT MON JUN 3 2002

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN DODGE CITY HAS ISSUED A

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

* UNTIL 630 PM CDT

* AT 538 PM CDT...DODGE CITY DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE
  THUNDERSTORM 7 MILES SOUTH OF MANTER...OR ABOUT 11 MILES SOUTHWEST
  OF JOHNSON CITY...MOVING NORTH AT 20 MPH.

* SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED
  MANTER AT 545 PM CDT
  JOHNSON CITY AT 605 PM CDT

THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM IS CAPABLE OF PRODUCING...
  HAIL THE SIZE OF QUARTERS,
  WIND UP TO 60 MILES AN HOUR

STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS.

LAT...LON 3745 10198 3738 10171 3773 10152 3774 10191

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 2, 7:55 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Ness, Trego	50 min
Jun 3, 5:16 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Morton	29 min
Jun 3, 5:25 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Stevens	80 min
Jun 3, 6:45 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Stevens	30 min
Jun 3, 6:54 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Haskell	81 min

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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.