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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 16, NWS Dodge City, KS

April 17, 2002Stafford County, Kansas

NWS Dodge City, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 17, 2002, 8:31 PM CDT for Stafford County, Kansas. It was in force for 29 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, 8:31 PM CDT (01:31 UTC)
Expired: Apr 17, 2002, 9:00 PM CDT
In force: 29 min
Issued by: NWS Dodge City, KS
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Stafford County, KS

The radar

The Dodge City radar (KDDC), 117 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:35 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
Apr 17, 8:38 PM CDT	Hail 1.75	St John, KS
Apr 17, 8:43 PM CDT	Hail 1	Hudson, 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
Apr 17, 5:15 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	6 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 00:00Z, 1.5 hours before the alert went out and 111 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 180131
SVRDDC
KSC185-180200-

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

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN DODGE CITY HAS ISSUED A

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

* UNTIL 900 PM CDT

* AT 831 PM CDT...DODGE CITY DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE
  THUNDERSTORM 6 MILES SOUTHWEST OF HUDSON...OR ABOUT 5 MILES NORTH
  OF ST JOHN...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 35 MPH.

* SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED
  RURAL RESIDENCE OF STAFFORD COUNTY THROUGH 850 PM CDT

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

THIS WARNING REPLACES THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING PREVIOUSLY
ISSUED FOR WESTERN STAFFORD COUNTY.

STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS. 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 3818 9890 3796 9873 3792 9849 3824 9849

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, 8:00 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Barber	30 min
Apr 17, 8:12 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Pratt	18 min
Apr 17, 8:56 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Pawnee	49 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.