Alert archive / Kansas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2002
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 149, NWS Dodge City, KS
NWS Dodge City, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 10, 2002, 8:19 PM CDT for Clark County, Kansas. It was in force for 41 min. 2 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, 8:19 PM CDT (01:19 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 10, 2002, 9:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 41 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), 45 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:19 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 10, 8:26 PM CDT | Hail 1.75 | Clark State Lake, KS | |
| Jun 10, 8:32 PM CDT | Hail 1 | Clark State Lake, 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 00:00Z, 1.3 hours before the alert went out and 45 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 2507 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -31 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1734 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 39 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 20 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 156 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.3
- Supercell composite
- 6.1
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WUUS53 KDDC 110119 SVRDDC KSC025-110200- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS 818 PM CDT MON JUN 10 2002 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN DODGE CITY HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... NORTHERN CLARK COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST KANSAS * UNTIL 900 PM CDT * AT 818 PM CDT...DODGE CITY DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 4 MILES WEST OF CLARK STATE LAKE...OR ABOUT 10 MILES SOUTHEAST OF MINNEOLA...MOVING EAST AT 20 MPH. * SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED RURAL CLARK COUNTY AT 830 PM CDT. THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM IS CAPABLE OF PRODUCING... DESTRUCTIVE HAIL THE SIZE OF BASEBALLS, DESTRUCTIVE WIND UP TO 80 MILES AN HOUR, FOR YOUR SAFETY SEEK A STURDY SHELTER IMMEDIATELY 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 9997 3734 9999 3716 9956 3744 9957 GERARD
The office that day
Everything else NWS Dodge City, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 10, 7:27 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DDC | Clark | 48 min |
| Jun 10, 7:29 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Ford | 46 min |
| Jun 10, 7:39 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Kiowa, Pratt | 51 min |
| Jun 10, 9:44 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Pratt | 61 min |
| Jun 11, 6:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Hodgeman | 45 min |
Nearby
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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.