Alert archive / Kansas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2002
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 209, NWS Dodge City, KS
NWS Dodge City, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 17, 2002, 5:14 PM CDT for Stevens County, Kansas. It was in force for 46 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 17, 2002, 5:14 PM CDT (22:14 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 17, 2002, 6:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 46 min
- Issued by
- NWS Dodge City, KS
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Stevens County, KS
The radar
The Dodge City radar (KDDC), 159 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:14 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, 5:20 PM CDT | Hail 1.25 | Rolla, 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, 10.2 hours before the alert went out and 165 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 172214 SVRDDC KSC189-172300- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS 513 PM CDT MON JUN 17 2002 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN DODGE CITY HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... SOUTHWESTERN STEVENS COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST KANSAS * UNTIL 600 PM CDT * AT 511 PM CDT...DODGE CITY DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM ABOUT 15 MILES SOUTHWEST OF HUGOTON...MOVING NORTH AT 10 MPH. THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM IS CAPABLE OF PRODUCING... DAMAGING HAIL THE SIZE OF GOLFBALLS, WIND UP TO 60 MILES AN HOUR, VERY HEAVY RAINFALL WHICH MAY CAUSE LOCALIZED FLOODING, FOR YOUR SAFETY SEEK A STURDY SHELTER IMMEDIATELY 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 3701 10156 3699 10142 3713 10155 21
The office that day
Everything else NWS Dodge City, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 17, 3:12 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Seward, Stevens | 48 min |
| 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 |
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.