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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 131, NWS Dodge City, KS

June 4, 2002Ford County, Kansas

NWS Dodge City, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 4, 2002, 5:06 AM CDT for Ford County, Kansas. It was in force for 59 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, 5:06 AM CDT (10:06 UTC)
Expired
Jun 4, 2002, 6:05 AM CDT
In force
59 min
Issued by
NWS Dodge City, KS
Area
Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Ford County, KS

The radar

The Dodge City radar (KDDC), 25 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 10:05 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 00:00Z, 10.1 hours before the alert went out and 24 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Dodge City, at 00:00Z on 2002-06-04Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 2163 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Dodge City, at 00:00Z on 2002-06-04The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 90 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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.

495 
WUUS53 KDDC 041006
SVRDDC
KSC057-041105-

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

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN DODGE CITY HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  SOUTHERN FORD COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST KANSAS

* UNTIL 605 AM CDT

* AT 505 AM CDT...DODGE CITY DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE
  THUNDERSTORM 17 MILES WEST OF KINGSDOWN...OR ABOUT 3 MILES WEST OF
  MINNEOLA...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 30 MPH.

* SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED
  KINGSDOWN AT 530 AM CDT
  FORD AT 540 AM CDT
  BUCKLIN AT 545 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 3749 10011 3747 9971 3760 9957 3774 9978

FINCH

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 4, 3:18 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCHaskell, Seward, Stevens57 min
Jun 4, 4:08 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCMeade67 min
Jun 4, 4:53 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCClark62 min
Jun 4, 4:59 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCSeward46 min
Jun 4, 5:49 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCKiowa56 min
Jun 4, 6:04 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCClark, Ford41 min
Jun 4, 6:09 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCEdwards51 min
Jun 4, 8:16 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCKiowa, Pratt44 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Kansas, 2002Every 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.