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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 165, NWS Dodge City, KS

June 12, 2002Finney County, Kansas

NWS Dodge City, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 12, 2002, 12:17 AM CDT for Finney County, Kansas. It was in force for 58 min. 4 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 12, 2002, 12:17 AM CDT (05:17 UTC)
Expired: Jun 12, 2002, 1:15 AM CDT
In force: 58 min
Issued by: NWS Dodge City, KS
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Finney County, KS

The radar

The Dodge City radar (KDDC), 79 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 05:21 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
Jun 12, 12:54 AM CDT	Hail 1	Garden City, KS
Jun 12, 12:59 AM CDT	Hail 1	Garden City, KS
Jun 12, 12:59 AM CDT	Thunderstorm Wind 70 E	Garden City, KS
Jun 12, 1:15 AM CDT	Hail 0.75	Kalvesta, 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 11, 11:15 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	3 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 00:00Z, 5.3 hours before the alert went out and 84 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 120517
SVRDDC
KSC055-120615-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS
1216 AM CDT WED JUN 12 2002

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN DODGE CITY HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  NORTHERN FINNEY COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST KANSAS

* UNTIL 115 AM CDT

* AT 1216 AM CDT...DODGE CITY DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE
  THUNDERSTORM 43 MILES WEST OF KALVESTA...OR ABOUT 16 MILES
  SOUTHWEST OF SCOTT CITY...MOVING EAST AT 35 MPH.

* SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED
  KALVESTA AT 110 AM CDT

THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM IS CAPABLE OF PRODUCING...
  HAIL THE SIZE OF QUARTERS,
  DAMAGING WIND GREATER THAN 60 MILES AN HOUR,
  VERY FREQUENT AND DEADLY CLOUD-TO-GROUND LIGHTNING,


LAT...LON 3825 10110 3802 10096 3800 10024 3824 10023

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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, 9:58 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Stafford	62 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, 12:28 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.