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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 211, NWS Dodge City, KS

June 19, 2002Hamilton County, Kearny County, Kansas

NWS Dodge City, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 19, 2002, 7:26 PM MDT for Hamilton County, Kearny County, Kansas. It was in force for 64 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 19, 2002, 7:26 PM MDT (01:26 UTC)
Expired: Jun 19, 2002, 8:30 PM MDT
In force: 64 min
Issued by: NWS Dodge City, KS
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

Counties Hamilton County, KS, Kearny County, KS

The radar

The Dodge City radar (KDDC), 157 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:28 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 19, 8:20 PM MDT	Hail 1.75	Coolidge, 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, 3:45 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	5 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 00:00Z, 1.4 hours before the alert went out and 163 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 200126
SVRDDC
KSC075-093-200230-

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

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN DODGE CITY HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  SOUTHERN HAMILTON COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST KANSAS
  SOUTHWESTERN KEARNY COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST KANSAS

* UNTIL 830 PM MDT(930 PM CDT)

* AT 726 PM MDT(826 PM CDT)...DODGE CITY DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 12 MILES SOUTHWEST OF SYRACUSE...OR ABOUT 11
  MILES SOUTH OF COOLIDGE...MOVING EAST AT 25 MPH.

* SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED
  SYRACUSE THROUGH 745 PM MDT
  KENDALL THROUGH 810 PM MDT

THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM IS CAPABLE OF PRODUCING...
  HAIL THE SIZE OF NICKELS,
  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 3801 10204 3775 10204 3774 10132 3806 10129

JOHNSON

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 19, 6:57 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Finney, Kearny, Scott	63 min
Jun 19, 8:25 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Hamilton, Stanton	50 min
Jun 19, 8:43 PM MDT	Flash Flood Warning	DDC	Hamilton, Kearny	3 hr
Jun 19, 9:19 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Hamilton, Stanton	41 min
Jun 19, 9:42 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Grant, Kearny	48 min
Jun 20, 2:09 AM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Finney	51 min
Jun 20, 2:35 AM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Lane	40 min
Jun 20, 3:01 AM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Finney	29 min
Jun 20, 7:48 AM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Rush	42 min
Jun 20, 8:34 AM MDT	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.