Alert archive / Kansas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2002
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 206, NWS Dodge City, KS
NWS Dodge City, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 17, 2002, 3:12 PM CDT for Seward County, Stevens County, Kansas. It was in force for 48 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 17, 2002, 3:12 PM CDT (20:12 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 17, 2002, 4:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 48 min
- Issued by
- NWS Dodge City, KS
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
Counties Seward County, KS, Stevens County, KS
The radar
The Dodge City radar (KDDC), 101 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:14 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 17, 3:25 PM CDT | Hail 0.75 | Moscow, KS | The hail fell in Cave. |
| Jun 17, 3:28 PM CDT | Hail 0.75 | Liberal, 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 12:00Z, 8.2 hours before the alert went out and 107 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
- 145 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -379 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1282 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 48 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 103 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 201 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 172012 SVRDDC KSC175-189-172100- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS 312 PM CDT MON JUN 17 2002 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN DODGE CITY HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... NORTHERN SEWARD COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST KANSAS NORTHEASTERN STEVENS COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST KANSAS * UNTIL 400 PM CDT * AT 312 PM CDT...DODGE CITY DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 2 MILES SOUTHWEST OF CAVE...OR ABOUT 11 MILES SOUTHWEST OF SATANTA...MOVING EAST AT 25 MPH. ANOTHER THUNDERSTORM WAS 5 MILES NORTHWEST OF FETERITA. * SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED KISMET AT 355 PM CDT THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM IS CAPABLE OF PRODUCING... HAIL THE SIZE OF QUARTERS, WIND UP TO 60 MILES AN HOUR STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS. LAT...LON 3739 10116 3722 10117 3708 10063 3738 10065 21
The office that day
Everything else NWS Dodge City, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 17, 4:20 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Stevens | 40 min |
| Jun 17, 5:06 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Morton | 39 min |
| Jun 17, 5:14 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Stevens | 46 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.