Alert archive / Kansas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2002
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 217, NWS Dodge City, KS
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 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.
- 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
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.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 19, 7:57 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Finney, Kearny, Scott | 63 min |
| 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, 8:48 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Rush | 42 min |
| Jun 20, 9:34 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Rush | 41 min |
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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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.