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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 210, NWS Dodge City, KS

June 19, 2002Finney County, Kearny County, Scott County, Kansas

NWS Dodge City, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 19, 2002, 7:57 PM CDT for Finney County, Kearny County, Scott County, Kansas. It was in force for 63 min. 3 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 19, 2002, 7:57 PM CDT (00:57 UTC)
Expired: Jun 19, 2002, 9:00 PM CDT
In force: 63 min
Issued by: NWS Dodge City, KS
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

Counties Finney County, KS, Kearny County, KS, Scott County, KS

The radar

The Dodge City radar (KDDC), 100 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:58 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
Jun 19, 8:16 PM CDT	Thunderstorm Wind 51 M	Garden City, KS
Jun 19, 8:25 PM CDT	Thunderstorm Wind 61 E	Deerfield, KS
Jun 19, 8:30 PM CDT	Thunderstorm Wind 52 E	Lakin, 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.

Issued	Product	Office	Lasted
Jun 19, 4:45 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	5 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 00:00Z, 1.0 hours before the alert went out and 105 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 2329 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -338 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1932 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 22 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 113 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 300 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 200057
SVRDDC
KSC055-093-171-200200-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS
756 PM CDT WED JUN 19 2002

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN DODGE CITY HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  WESTERN FINNEY COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST KANSAS
  SOUTHEASTERN KEARNY COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST KANSAS
  SOUTHERN SCOTT COUNTY IN WEST CENTRAL KANSAS

* UNTIL 900 PM CDT

* AT 756 PM CDT...DODGE CITY DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A LINE OF SEVERE
  THUNDERSTORMS ALONG A LINE EXTENDING FROM 7 MILES SOUTHWEST OF
  SHALLOW WATER TO 3 MILES NORTH OF DEERFIELD TO 12 MILES            
  SOUTHWEST OF LAKIN...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 15 MPH.

* SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED
  SHALLOW WATER AT 805 PM CDT
  FRIEND AT 815 PM CDT
  HOLCOMB AT 820 PM CDT
  GARDEN CITY AT 850 PM CDT
  PLYMELL AT 900 PM CDT

THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS ARE CAPABLE OF PRODUCING...
  DAMAGING WIND GREATER THAN 60 MILES AN HOUR,
  VERY FREQUENT AND DEADLY CLOUD-TO-GROUND LIGHTNING,

FOR YOUR SAFETY SEEK A STURDY SHELTER IMMEDIATELY FOR YOUR
PROTECTION MOVE TO AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF YOUR HOME
OR BUSINESS. STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS. 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 3843 10108 3805 10122 3781 10153 3774 10095
          3789 10072 3823 10062

JOHNSON

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 19, 8:26 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Hamilton, Kearny	64 min
Jun 19, 9:25 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Hamilton, Stanton	50 min
Jun 19, 9:43 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	DDC	Hamilton, Kearny	3 hr
Jun 19, 10:19 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Hamilton, Stanton	41 min
Jun 19, 10:42 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Grant, Kearny	48 min
Jun 20, 3:09 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Finney	51 min
Jun 20, 3:35 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Lane	40 min
Jun 20, 4:01 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Finney	29 min
Jun 20, 8:48 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Rush	42 min
Jun 20, 9:34 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Rush	41 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.