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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 129, NWS Dodge City, KS

June 4, 2002Clark County, Kansas

NWS Dodge City, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 4, 2002, 4:53 AM CDT for Clark County, Kansas. It was in force for 62 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 4, 2002, 4:53 AM CDT (09:53 UTC)
Expired: Jun 4, 2002, 5:55 AM CDT
In force: 62 min
Issued by: NWS Dodge City, KS
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Clark County, KS

The radar

The Dodge City radar (KDDC), 43 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 09:55 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 4, 5:00 AM CDT	Hail 0.75	Minneola, 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 nearest sounding before it

Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 00:00Z, 9.9 hours before the alert went out and 43 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

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

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

779 
WUUS53 KDDC 040953
SVRDDC
KSC025-041055-

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

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN DODGE CITY HAS ISSUED A

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

* UNTIL 555 AM CDT

* AT 452 AM CDT...DODGE CITY DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE
  THUNDERSTORM 10 MILES SOUTHWEST OF MINNEOLA...MOVING EAST AT 35
  MPH.

* SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED
  MINNEOLA AT 500 AM CDT
  CSL AT 520 AM CDT

THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM IS CAPABLE OF PRODUCING...
  HAIL THE SIZE OF QUARTERS,

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 3746 10010 3724 10008 3730 9956 3744 9957

FINCH

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 4, 3:18 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Haskell, Seward, Stevens	57 min
Jun 4, 4:08 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Meade	67 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.