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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 127, NWS Dodge City, KS

June 4, 2002Haskell County, Seward County, Stevens County, Kansas

NWS Dodge City, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 4, 2002, 3:18 AM CDT for Haskell County, Seward County, Stevens County, Kansas. It was in force for 57 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: Jun 4, 2002, 3:18 AM CDT (08:18 UTC)
Expired: Jun 4, 2002, 4:15 AM CDT
In force: 57 min
Issued by: NWS Dodge City, KS
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

Counties Haskell County, KS, Seward County, KS, Stevens County, KS

The radar

The Dodge City radar (KDDC), 106 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 08:20 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, 8.3 hours before the alert went out and 112 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: 2163 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -87 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 2374 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 31 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 90 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 147 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 2.8

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The text

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

533 
WUUS53 KDDC 040818
SVRDDC
KSC081-175-189-040915-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS
317 AM CDT TUE JUN 4 2002

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN DODGE CITY HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  HASKELL COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST KANSAS
  SEWARD COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST KANSAS
  EASTERN STEVENS COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST KANSAS

* UNTIL 415 AM CDT

* AT 317 AM CDT...DODGE CITY DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE
  THUNDERSTORM 16 MILES SOUTHWEST OF SATANTA...OR ABOUT 2 MILES SOUTH
  OF MOSCOW...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 20 MPH.

* SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED
  SATANTA AT 345 AM 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 3735 10117 3701 10105 3706 10092 3718 10087
          3738 10084 3750 10106 3742 10106 3737 10105

FINCH

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 4, 4:08 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Meade	67 min
Jun 4, 4:53 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Clark	62 min
Jun 4, 4:59 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Seward	46 min
Jun 4, 5:06 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Ford	59 min
Jun 4, 5:49 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Kiowa	56 min
Jun 4, 6:04 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Clark, Ford	41 min
Jun 4, 6:09 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Edwards	51 min
Jun 4, 8:16 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Kiowa, Pratt	44 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.