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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 137, NWS Dodge City, KS

June 10, 2002Finney County, Gray County, Haskell County, Kansas

NWS Dodge City, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 10, 2002, 3:58 PM CDT for Finney County, Gray County, Haskell County, Kansas. It was in force for 47 min. 3 reports 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 10, 2002, 3:58 PM CDT (20:58 UTC)
Expired: Jun 10, 2002, 4:45 PM CDT
In force: 47 min
Issued by: NWS Dodge City, KS
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

Counties Finney County, KS, Gray County, KS, Haskell County, KS

The radar

The Dodge City radar (KDDC), 75 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:01 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
Jun 10, 4:00 PM CDT	Hail 1	Sublette, KS
Jun 10, 4:50 PM CDT	Hail 0.75	Plymell, KS
Jun 10, 4:55 PM CDT	Hail 1	Copeland, 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 10, 3:30 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	6 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 12:00Z, 9.0 hours before the alert went out and 81 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: 1436 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -409 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1314 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 10 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 182 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 264 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.3

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The text

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

000 
WUUS53 KDDC 102058
SVRDDC
KSC055-069-081-102145-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS
357 PM CDT MON JUN 10 2002

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN DODGE CITY HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  SOUTHERN FINNEY COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST KANSAS
  NORTHWESTERN GRAY COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST KANSAS
  NORTHERN HASKELL COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST KANSAS

* UNTIL 445 PM CDT

* AT 357 PM CDT...DODGE CITY DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE
  THUNDERSTORM 6 MILES SOUTH OF PLYMELL...OR ABOUT 17 MILES SOUTH OF
  GARDEN CITY...MOVING EAST AT 15 MPH.

* SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED
  PIERCEVILLE AT 430 PM CDT
  CHARLESTON AT 445 PM CDT

THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM IS CAPABLE OF PRODUCING...
  HAIL THE SIZE OF QUARTERS,
  DAMAGING WIND GREATER THAN 60 MILES AN HOUR,
  VERY FREQUENT AND DEADLY CLOUD-TO-GROUND LIGHTNING,

THIS WARNING REPLACES THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING PREVIOUSLY 
ISSUED FOR SOUTHERN FINNEY AND NORTHWESTERN HASKELL COUNTIES.

FOR YOUR SAFETY SEEK A STURDY SHELTER IMMEDIATELY FOR YOUR
PROTECTION MOVE TO AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF YOUR HOME
OR BUSINESS. AVOID USING THE TELEPHONE OR OTHER ELECTRICAL EQUIPMENT
WHILE LIGHTNING IS IN THE AREA. 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 3795 10109 3760 10108 3764 10041 3799 10040

JOHNSON

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 10, 3:13 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Finney, Grant, Haskell, Kearny	47 min
Jun 10, 4:45 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Finney, Lane	45 min
Jun 10, 4:47 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Finney, Gray, Haskell	43 min
Jun 10, 4:50 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Ness	40 min
Jun 10, 5:34 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Ford, Gray	56 min
Jun 10, 5:39 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Ness	51 min
Jun 10, 5:46 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Meade	44 min
Jun 10, 6:07 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	DDC	Gray	23 min
Jun 10, 6:22 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Clark	53 min
Jun 10, 6:32 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Gray	43 min
Jun 10, 6:41 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Ford	49 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.