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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 178, NWS Dodge City, KS

June 12, 2002Pratt County, Kansas

NWS Dodge City, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 12, 2002, 6:32 PM CDT for Pratt County, Kansas. It was in force for 43 min. 1 report 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, 6:32 PM CDT (23:32 UTC)
Expired
Jun 12, 2002, 7:15 PM CDT
In force
43 min
Issued by
NWS Dodge City, KS
Area
Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Pratt County, KS

The radar

The Vance AFB radar (KVNX), 103 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:35 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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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

TimeReportWhereRemark
Jun 12, 6:45 PM CDTHail 1Sawyer, 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.

IssuedProductOfficeLasted
Jun 12, 4:00 PM CDTTornado WatchSPC5 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 12:00Z, 11.5 hours before the alert went out and 115 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 12:00Z on 2002-06-12Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 741 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 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 12:00Z on 2002-06-12The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 320 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 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
741 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-174 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
729 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
39 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
320 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
341 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
5.9

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The text

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

000 
WUUS53 KDDC 122332
SVRDDC
KSC151-130015-

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

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN DODGE CITY HAS ISSUED A

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

* UNTIL 715 PM CDT

* AT 631 PM CDT...DODGE CITY DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE
  THUNDERSTORM 9 MILES SOUTHEAST OF SAWYER...OR ABOUT 9 MILES NORTH
  OF MEDICINE LODGE...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 20 MPH.

* SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED
  CAIRO AT 655 PM CDT

THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM IS CAPABLE OF PRODUCING...
  DAMAGING HAIL THE SIZE OF GOLFBALLS,
  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 3747 9882 3747 9847 3768 9847 3780 9849

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 11, 7:03 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCNess57 min
Jun 11, 7:56 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCRush64 min
Jun 11, 7:58 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCNess32 min
Jun 11, 8:25 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCStafford50 min
Jun 11, 8:46 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCPawnee44 min
Jun 11, 8:57 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCEllis63 min
Jun 11, 9:15 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCStafford45 min
Jun 11, 9:32 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCPawnee43 min
Jun 11, 9:44 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCStafford16 min
Jun 11, 9:58 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCStafford62 min
Jun 11, 10:33 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCPratt57 min
Jun 11, 11:15 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCStafford45 min
Jun 11, 11:38 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCScott52 min
Jun 12, 12:17 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCFinney58 min
Jun 12, 12:28 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCScott47 min
Jun 12, 12:47 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCLane43 min
Jun 12, 1:10 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCFinney35 min
Jun 12, 1:25 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCHodgeman50 min
Jun 12, 1:53 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCPawnee52 min
Jun 12, 2:09 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCFord51 min
Jun 12, 2:11 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCHodgeman49 min
Jun 12, 2:27 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCEdwards, Pawnee63 min
Jun 12, 3:29 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCStafford61 min
Jun 12, 4:36 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCBarber, Comanche39 min
Jun 12, 5:12 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCBarber, Comanche48 min
Jun 12, 5:57 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCBarber48 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.