Alert archive / Kansas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2002
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 175, NWS Dodge City, KS
NWS Dodge City, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 12, 2002, 4:36 PM CDT for Barber County, Comanche County, Kansas. It was in force for 39 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
- Jun 12, 2002, 4:36 PM CDT (21:36 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 12, 2002, 5:15 PM CDT
- In force
- 39 min
- Issued by
- NWS Dodge City, KS
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
Counties Barber County, KS, Comanche County, KS
The radar
The Vance AFB radar (KVNX), 84 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:39 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 12, 4:50 PM CDT | Hail 0.88 | Coldwater, KS | |
| Jun 12, 5:09 PM CDT | Hail 0.88 | Hardtner, 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 12, 4:00 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 5 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
W. Woodward Airport, OK (KWWR), launched 12:00Z, 9.6 hours before the alert went out and 87 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 1281 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -162 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1130 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 29 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 179 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 163 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.9
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WUUS53 KDDC 122136 SVRDDC KSC007-033-122215- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS 436 PM CDT WED JUN 12 2002 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN DODGE CITY HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... SOUTHWESTERN BARBER COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL KANSAS SOUTHEASTERN COMANCHE COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL KANSAS * UNTIL 515 PM CDT * AT 436 PM CDT...DODGE CITY DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 10 MILES SOUTHWEST OF AETNA...OR ABOUT 23 MILES SOUTHEAST OF COLDWATER...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 20 MPH. * SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED AETNA AT 500 PM CDT THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM IS CAPABLE OF PRODUCING... HAIL THE SIZE OF QUARTERS, WIND UP TO 60 MILES AN HOUR, A TORNADO WATCH IS ALSO IN EFFECT. REMEMBER...SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS CAN PRODUCE TORNADOES WITH LITTLE OR NO ADVANCE WARNING. LAT...LON 3701 9924 3701 9872 3714 9866 3729 9897 15
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, 12:17 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, 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.