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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 21, NWS Dodge City, KS

April 27, 2002Finney County, Kansas

NWS Dodge City, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 27, 2002, 3:38 AM CDT for Finney County, Kansas. It was in force for 37 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Apr 27, 2002, 3:38 AM CDT (08:38 UTC)
Expired
Apr 27, 2002, 4:15 AM CDT
In force
37 min
Issued by
NWS Dodge City, KS
Area
Whole counties

County Finney County, KS

The radar

The Dodge City radar (KDDC), 74 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 08:42 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.

The nearest sounding before it

Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 00:00Z, 8.6 hours before the alert went out and 80 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 2002-04-27Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCLEL10008507005003002001001 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 2002-04-27The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 195 square meters per square second.1939587897117Sfc1 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
560 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
59 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
195 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
282 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 270838
SVRDDC
KSC055-270915-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS
338 AM CDT SAT APR 27 2002

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN DODGE CITY HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  WESTERN FINNEY COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST KANSAS

* UNTIL 415 AM CDT

* AT 338 AM CDT...DODGE CITY DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE
  THUNDERSTORM 24 MILES SOUTH OF HOLCOMB...OR ABOUT 14 MILES
  NORTHEAST OF ULYSSES...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 55 MPH.

* SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED
  HOLCOMB AT 355 AM CDT
  GARDEN CITY AT 400 AM CDT

THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM IS CAPABLE OF PRODUCING...
  HAIL THE SIZE OF NICKELS,
  DAMAGING WIND GREATER THAN 60 MILES AN HOUR,



GERARD

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Apr 27, 4:49 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCNess26 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Kansas, 2002Every severe thunderstorm warning in 2002

Sources

The product and its follow-ups from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service and Storm Prediction Center text; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.