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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 201, NWS Dodge City, KS

June 15, 2002Hamilton County, Kansas

NWS Dodge City, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 15, 2002, 4:39 PM MDT for Hamilton County, Kansas. It was in force for 51 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 15, 2002, 4:39 PM MDT (22:39 UTC)
Expired
Jun 15, 2002, 5:30 PM MDT
In force
51 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), 152 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:43 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 15, 5:15 PM MDTHail 0.75Syracuse, 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 15, 11:45 AM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPC5 hr
Jun 15, 3:00 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPC6 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 12:00Z, 10.7 hours before the alert went out and 171 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 2002-06-15Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 244 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 2002-06-15The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 184 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
244 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-290 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1401 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
49 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
184 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
194 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
2.7

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The text

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

000 
WUUS53 KDDC 152239
SVRDDC
KSC075-152330-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS
439 PM MDT SAT JUN 15 2002

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN DODGE CITY HAS ISSUED A

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

* UNTIL 530 PM MDT

* AT 439 PM MDT...DODGE CITY DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE
  THUNDERSTORM 7 MILES WEST OF SYRACUSE...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 5 MPH.

* SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED
  SYRACUSE AT 525 PM MDT

THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM IS CAPABLE OF PRODUCING...
  HAIL THE SIZE OF NICKELS,
  WIND UP TO 60 MILES AN HOUR,



FOR YOUR SAFETY SEEK A STURDY SHELTER IMMEDIATELY

LAT...LON 3814 10184 3803 10202 3778 10185 3792 10159

BURGERT

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 14, 6:25 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCHamilton50 min
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, 4:43 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.