Alert archive / Kansas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2002

Severe Thunderstorm Warning 150, NWS Dodge City, KS

June 10, 2002Pratt County, Kansas

NWS Dodge City, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 10, 2002, 9:44 PM CDT for Pratt County, Kansas. It was in force for 61 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 10, 2002, 9:44 PM CDT (02:44 UTC)
Expired
Jun 10, 2002, 10:45 PM CDT
In force
61 min
Issued by
NWS Dodge City, KS
Area
Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Pratt County, KS

The radar

The Dodge City radar (KDDC), 105 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 02:44 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.

The nearest sounding before it

Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 00:00Z, 2.7 hours before the alert went out and 99 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 2002-06-11Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 2507 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 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 2002-06-11The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 20 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 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
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

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

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

000 
WUUS53 KDDC 110244
SVRDDC
KSC151-110345-

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

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN DODGE CITY HAS ISSUED A

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

* UNTIL 1045 PM CDT

* AT 943 PM CDT...DODGE CITY DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE
  THUNDERSTORM OVER CULLISON...OR ABOUT 8 MILES WEST OF PRATT...
  MOVING EAST AT 20 MPH.

* SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED
  PRATT AT 955 PM CDT
  CAIRO AT 1010 PM CDT

THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM IS CAPABLE OF PRODUCING...
  HAIL THE SIZE OF QUARTERS,
  DAMAGING WIND GREATER THAN 60 MILES AN HOUR,

FOR YOUR SAFETY SEEK A STURDY SHELTER IMMEDIATELY STAY AWAY FROM
WINDOWS.

LAT...LON 3772 9899 3758 9899 3758 9848 3772 9848

KRUSE

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 10, 7:27 PM CDTTornado WarningDDCClark48 min
Jun 10, 7:29 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCFord46 min
Jun 10, 7:39 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCKiowa, Pratt51 min
Jun 10, 8:19 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCClark41 min
Jun 11, 6:00 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCHodgeman45 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.