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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 14, NWS Dodge City, KS

April 17, 2002Barber County, Kansas

NWS Dodge City, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 17, 2002, 8:00 PM CDT for Barber County, Kansas. It was in force for 30 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: Apr 17, 2002, 8:00 PM CDT (01:00 UTC)
Expired: Apr 17, 2002, 8:30 PM CDT
In force: 30 min
Issued by: NWS Dodge City, KS
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Barber County, KS

The watch it was issued in

The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.

Issued	Product	Office	Lasted
Apr 17, 5:15 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	6 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 00:00Z, 1.0 hours before the alert went out and 136 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: 0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL: 4097 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 12 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 25 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 43 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 180100
SVRDDC
KSC007-180130-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS
800 PM CDT WED APR 17 2002

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN DODGE CITY HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  EASTERN BARBER COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL KANSAS

* UNTIL 830 PM CDT

* AT 800 PM CDT...DODGE CITY DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE
  THUNDERSTORM 3 MILES WEST OF SHARON...OR ABOUT 6 MILES EAST OF
  MEDICINE LODGE...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 30 MPH.

* SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED
  RURAL RESIDENCE OF BARBER COUNTY  THROUGH 820 PM CDT

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

THIS WARNING REPLACES THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING PREVIOUSLY
ISSUED.

FOR YOUR SAFETY SEEK A STURDY SHELTER IMMEDIATELY STAY AWAY FROM
WINDOWS. 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 3727 9863 3714 9847 3728 9835 3737 9836
          3737 9845

BURGERT

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Apr 17, 7:00 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Pratt, Stafford	30 min
Apr 17, 7:06 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Kiowa	24 min
Apr 17, 7:21 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Barber	39 min
Apr 17, 7:31 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Edwards	44 min
Apr 17, 7:33 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Pratt	42 min
Apr 17, 7:57 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Pawnee, Stafford	48 min
Apr 17, 8:12 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Pratt	18 min
Apr 17, 8:31 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Stafford	29 min
Apr 17, 8:56 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Pawnee	49 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.