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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 15, NWS Dodge City, KS

April 17, 2002Pratt County, Kansas

NWS Dodge City, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 17, 2002, 8:12 PM CDT for Pratt County, Kansas. It was in force for 18 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
Apr 17, 2002, 8:12 PM CDT (01:12 UTC)
Expired
Apr 17, 2002, 8:30 PM CDT
In force
18 min
Issued by
NWS Dodge City, KS
Area
Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Pratt County, KS

The radar

The Wichita radar (KICT), 104 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:12 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

TimeReportWhereRemark
Apr 17, 8:15 PM CDTHail 0.75Pratt, KS
Apr 17, 8:18 PM CDTHail 0.75Pratt, 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.

IssuedProductOfficeLasted
Apr 17, 5:15 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPC6 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 00:00Z, 1.2 hours before the alert went out and 113 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 2002-04-18Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 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 2002-04-18The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 25 square meters per square second.1939587897Sfc1 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
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 180112
SVRDDC
KSC151-180130-

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

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN DODGE CITY HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  NORTHEASTERN PRATT COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL KANSAS

* UNTIL 830 PM CDT

* AT 812 PM CDT...DODGE CITY DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE
  THUNDERSTORM 4 MILES NORTHWEST OF CAIRO...OR ABOUT 7 MILES EAST OF
  PRATT...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 30 MPH.

* SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED
  PRESTON AT 820 PM CDT

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

THIS WARNING REPLACES THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING PREVIOUSLY
ISSUED.



LAT...LON 3767 9876 3755 9861 3760 9847 3781 9848
          3781 9867

BURGERT

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Apr 17, 7:00 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCPratt, Stafford30 min
Apr 17, 7:06 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCKiowa24 min
Apr 17, 7:21 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCBarber39 min
Apr 17, 7:31 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCEdwards44 min
Apr 17, 7:33 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCPratt42 min
Apr 17, 7:57 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCPawnee, Stafford48 min
Apr 17, 8:00 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCBarber30 min
Apr 17, 8:31 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCStafford29 min
Apr 17, 8:56 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCPawnee49 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.