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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 182, NWS Dodge City, KS

June 14, 2002Hamilton County, Kansas

NWS Dodge City, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 14, 2002, 6:25 PM MDT for Hamilton County, Kansas. It was in force for 50 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 14, 2002, 6:25 PM MDT (00:25 UTC)
Expired
Jun 14, 2002, 7:15 PM MDT
In force
50 min
Issued by
NWS Dodge City, KS
Area
Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Hamilton County, KS

The radar

The Goodland radar (KGLD), 148 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:25 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

TimeReportWhereRemark
Jun 14, 6:35 PM MDTHail 2.5Coolidge, KS
Jun 14, 7:09 PM MDTHail 0.88Syracuse, 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, 0.4 hours before the alert went out and 174 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 00:00Z on 2002-06-15Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 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 00:00Z on 2002-06-15The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 73 square meters per square second.1939587897Sfc1 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
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
2610 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
47 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
73 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
247 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The text

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

000 
WUUS53 KDDC 150025
SVRDDC
KSC075-150115-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS
625 PM MDT FRI JUN 14 2002

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN DODGE CITY HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  HAMILTON COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST KANSAS

* UNTIL 715 PM MDT

* AT 625 PM MDT...DODGE CITY DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE
  THUNDERSTORM 13 MILES SOUTHWEST OF COOLIDGE...OR ABOUT 24 MILES
  WEST OF SYRACUSE...MOVING EAST AT 35 MPH.

* SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED
  COOLIDGE AT 635 PM MDT
  SYRACUSE AT 655 PM MDT

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

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 3818 10204 3777 10204 3782 10156 3825 10156

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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 14, 7:30 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCKearny45 min
Jun 15, 8:02 AM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCEllis28 min
Jun 15, 12:52 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCScott38 min
Jun 15, 1:14 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCLane, Ness46 min
Jun 15, 1:20 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCFinney, Kearny55 min
Jun 15, 1:29 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCScott61 min
Jun 15, 1:43 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCEllis62 min
Jun 15, 2:00 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCLane, Ness60 min
Jun 15, 2:03 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCLane, Ness57 min
Jun 15, 2:29 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCTrego61 min
Jun 15, 2:39 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCHodgeman21 min
Jun 15, 2:44 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCFord, Gray61 min
Jun 15, 3:13 PM MDTTornado WarningDDCFinney, Haskell32 min
Jun 15, 3:47 PM MDTTornado WarningDDCHaskell28 min
Jun 15, 3:48 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCGray42 min
Jun 15, 3:54 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCMorton51 min
Jun 15, 4:11 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCMeade49 min
Jun 15, 4:12 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCSeward48 min
Jun 15, 4:16 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCHaskell29 min
Jun 15, 4:28 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCGrant47 min
Jun 15, 4:39 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCHamilton51 min
Jun 15, 4:43 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCMorton47 min
Jun 15, 4:52 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCStevens38 min
Jun 15, 4:56 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCSeward64 min
Jun 15, 5:16 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCHaskell44 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.