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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 217, NWS Dodge City, KS

June 20, 2002Finney County, Kansas

NWS Dodge City, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 20, 2002, 4:01 AM CDT for Finney County, Kansas. It was in force for 29 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued
Jun 20, 2002, 4:01 AM CDT (09:01 UTC)
Expired
Jun 20, 2002, 4:30 AM CDT
In force
29 min
Issued by
NWS Dodge City, KS
Area
Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Finney County, KS

The radar

The Dodge City radar (KDDC), 59 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 09:05 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, 9.0 hours before the alert went out and 62 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 2002-06-20Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 2329 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Dodge City, at 00:00Z on 2002-06-20The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 113 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 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
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 200901
SVRDDC
KSC055-200930-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS
400 AM CDT THU JUN 20 2002

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN DODGE CITY HAS ISSUED A

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

* UNTIL 430 AM CDT

* AT 400 AM CDT...DODGE CITY DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE
  THUNDERSTORM 7 MILES WEST OF KALVESTA...OR ABOUT 19 MILES NORTH OF
  CIMARRON...MOVING EAST AT 20 MPH.

* SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED
  KALVESTA AT 410 AM CDT

THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM IS CAPABLE OF PRODUCING...
  HAIL THE SIZE OF NICKELS,
  WIND UP TO 60 MILES AN HOUR,

THIS WARNING REPLACES THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING PREVIOUSLY 
ISSUED FOR NORTHEASTERN FINNEY.

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 3822 10057 3803 10054 3801 10024 3823 10024

BURGERT

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 19, 7:57 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCFinney, Kearny, Scott63 min
Jun 19, 8:26 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCHamilton, Kearny64 min
Jun 19, 9:25 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCHamilton, Stanton50 min
Jun 19, 9:43 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningDDCHamilton, Kearny3 hr
Jun 19, 10:19 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCHamilton, Stanton41 min
Jun 19, 10:42 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCGrant, Kearny48 min
Jun 20, 3:09 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCFinney51 min
Jun 20, 3:35 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCLane40 min
Jun 20, 8:48 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCRush42 min
Jun 20, 9:34 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCRush41 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.