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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 161, NWS Dodge City, KS

June 11, 2002Stafford County, Kansas

NWS Dodge City, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 11, 2002, 9:58 PM CDT for Stafford County, Kansas. It was in force for 62 min. 5 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 11, 2002, 9:58 PM CDT (02:58 UTC)
Expired: Jun 11, 2002, 11:00 PM CDT
In force: 62 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), 105 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 03:00 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 11, 10:00 PM CDT	Hail 1.25	St John, KS
Jun 11, 10:10 PM CDT	Hail 0.75	St John, KS
Jun 11, 10:17 PM CDT	Hail 1	St John, KS
Jun 11, 10:20 PM CDT	Thunderstorm Wind	Stafford, KS	The wind damaged the roof of a local restaurant and broken numerous three to five inch diameter tree limbs.
Jun 11, 10:35 PM CDT	Thunderstorm Wind	Stafford, KS	A pivot sprinkler was blown down along with 6 to 7 power poles.

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 11, 3:45 PM CDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	6 hr
Jun 11, 9:15 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	5 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 00:00Z, 3.0 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-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: 651 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -38 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 2833 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 29 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 6 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 55 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.5

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The text

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

000 
WUUS53 KDDC 120258
SVRDDC
KSC185-120400-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS
958 PM CDT TUE JUN 11 2002

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN DODGE CITY HAS ISSUED A

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

* UNTIL 1100 PM CDT

* AT 958 PM CDT...DODGE CITY DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE
  THUNDERSTORM 3 MILES WEST OF ST JOHN...MOVING EAST AT 30 MPH.

* SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED
  STAFFORD AT 1015 PM CDT
  ZENITH AT 1030 PM CDT

THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM IS CAPABLE OF PRODUCING...
  DAMAGING HAIL THE SIZE OF GOLFBALLS,

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

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 3799 9901 3783 9890 3784 9849 3806 9848
          3810 9885 3799 9891

BURGERT

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 11, 7:03 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Ness	57 min
Jun 11, 7:56 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Rush	64 min
Jun 11, 7:58 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Ness	32 min
Jun 11, 8:25 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Stafford	50 min
Jun 11, 8:46 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Pawnee	44 min
Jun 11, 8:57 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Ellis	63 min
Jun 11, 9:15 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Stafford	45 min
Jun 11, 9:32 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Pawnee	43 min
Jun 11, 9:44 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Stafford	16 min
Jun 11, 10:33 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Pratt	57 min
Jun 11, 11:15 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Stafford	45 min
Jun 11, 11:38 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Scott	52 min
Jun 12, 12:17 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Finney	58 min
Jun 12, 12:28 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Scott	47 min
Jun 12, 12:47 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Lane	43 min
Jun 12, 1:10 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Finney	35 min
Jun 12, 1:25 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Hodgeman	50 min
Jun 12, 1:53 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Pawnee	52 min
Jun 12, 2:09 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Ford	51 min
Jun 12, 2:11 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Hodgeman	49 min
Jun 12, 2:27 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Edwards, Pawnee	63 min
Jun 12, 3:29 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Stafford	61 min
Jun 12, 4:36 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Barber, Comanche	39 min
Jun 12, 5:12 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Barber, Comanche	48 min
Jun 12, 5:57 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Barber	48 min
Jun 12, 6:32 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Pratt	43 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.