Alert archive / Kansas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2002
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 18, NWS Dodge City, KS
NWS Dodge City, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 18, 2002, 7:57 PM CDT for Stafford County, Kansas. It was in force for 63 min. 3 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 18, 2002, 7:57 PM CDT (00:57 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 18, 2002, 9:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 63 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), 115 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:59 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 18, 8:05 PM CDT | Hail 0.75 | St John, KS | |
| Apr 18, 8:30 PM CDT | Thunderstorm Wind 52 E | Seward, KS | |
| Apr 18, 8:52 PM CDT | Hail 0.88 | Seward, 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 nearest sounding before it
Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 00:00Z, 1.0 hours before the alert went out and 109 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 5990 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 50 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 73 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 103 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WUUS53 KDDC 190057 SVRDDC KSC185-190200- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS 756 PM CDT THU APR 18 2002 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN DODGE CITY HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... STAFFORD COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL KANSAS * UNTIL 900 PM CDT * AT 756 PM CDT...DODGE CITY DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 8 MILES SOUTH OF SEWARD...OR ABOUT 6 MILES NORTHWEST OF ST JOHN...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 20 MPH. ANOTHER SEVERE STORM WAS LOCATED OVER EXTREME NORTHEAST STAFFORD COUNTY. * SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED SEWARD AT 815 PM CDT THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM IS CAPABLE OF PRODUCING... HAIL THE SIZE OF QUARTERS, A TORNADO WATCH IS ALSO IN EFFECT. REMEMBER...SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS CAN PRODUCE TORNADOES WITH LITTLE OR NO ADVANCE WARNING. LAT...LON 3811 9889 3799 9872 3823 9848 3825 9878 $$ FINCH
The office that day
Everything else NWS Dodge City, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 18, 8:28 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Pawnee | 47 min |
| Apr 18, 9:03 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Stafford | 42 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.