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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 225, NWS Dodge City, KS

June 26, 2002Stafford County, Kansas

NWS Dodge City, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 26, 2002, 2:37 PM CDT for Stafford County, Kansas. It was in force for 38 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 26, 2002, 2:37 PM CDT (19:37 UTC)
Expired: Jun 26, 2002, 3:15 PM CDT
In force: 38 min
Issued by: NWS Dodge City, KS
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Stafford County, KS

The radar

The Dodge City radar (KDDC), 112 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:40 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 26, 2:40 PM CDT	Hail 0.75	Stafford, 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.

Did it verify

Not verified. The Iowa Environmental Mesonet's Cow found no qualifying storm report inside this severe thunderstorm warning while it was in force. That is not proof nothing happened: reports are thin where few people live.

Cow counts a report within 15 km of the polygon while the warning was in force: a tornado for a tornado warning; hail of 1 inch or more, a gust of 58 mph or more or wind damage for a severe thunderstorm warning; a flash flood report for a flash flood warning.

The nearest sounding before it

Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 12:00Z, 7.6 hours before the alert went out and 106 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: 120 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -309 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1519 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 22 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 48 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: -24 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 261937
SVRDDC
KSC185-262015-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS
237 PM CDT WED JUN 26 2002

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN DODGE CITY HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  STAFFORD COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL KANSAS

* UNTIL 315 PM CDT

* AT 237 PM CDT...DODGE CITY DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A LINE OF SEVERE
  THUNDERSTORMS ALONG A LINE EXTENDING FROM 11 MILES NORTHEAST OF   
  SEWARD TO 14 MILES SOUTH OF STAFFORD...MOVING EAST AT 5 MPH.

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



LAT...LON 3819 9883 3784 9896 3786 9854 3819 9855

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What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this severe thunderstorm warning went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.

NWS Dodge City, KS wrote its last area forecast discussion before this severe thunderstorm warning went out at Jun 26, 3:02 AM CDT, 11 hours 35 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 26, 3:02 AM CDT, 11 hours 35 minutes before

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS
302 AM CDT WED JUN 26 2002

DAYS 1-2...
MAIN CHALLENGE WILL BE PRECIP NEXT COUPLE DAYS BASED ON LOCATION OF
SURFACE BOUNDARY POSITION.  TSRA STILL ADVANCING SOUTHWARD BUT
STEADILY WEAKENING AS STORMS MOVING INTO LOWER CAPE REGION. ETA
BRINGS WHAT APPEARS TO BE A VORT INTO WESTERN CWA. THIS IS MOST
LIKELY SOME FEEDBACK FROM WEAKENING MCS OVER NORTHWEST KANSAS.
MODELS PUT FRONT ABOUT HALFWAY THROUGH CWA TODAY AND STALLS IT OUT
THERE THROUGH THURSDAY. WILL PROBABLY GO WITH 30 POPS FOR MOST OF
CWA TODAY AND TONIGHT AS FRONT SHOULD SERVE AS A FOCAL POINT FOR
STORMS.  MID LEVEL CAP IS STILL THERE TODAY/TONIGHT BUT DOES NOT
LOOK AS STRONG. THEN WILL GO FOR LATE AFTERNOON POPS ON THURSDAY AND
CONTINUE INTO THE EVENING AS SCATTERED STORMS DEVELOP NEAR FRONT.

FOR TEMPS NEXT FOUR PERIODS, STAYED FAIRLY CLOSE TO GOING FORECAST
EXCEPT WENT A LITTLE WARMER FOR MOST OF THE AREA THURSDAY WITH A BIT
MORE SUN.

DAYS 3-7...
NO CHANGES.  STILL LOOKING ON TRACK FOR A HOT WEEKEND.

PRELIMINARY GUIDANCE FOR COORDINATION ONLY. OFFICIAL FORECASTS ARE
CONTAINED WITHIN THE DODGE CITY ZONE FORECAST.

DDC   91  66  93  66 /  30  30   0  30
GCK   92  65  94  64 /  30  30   0  30
EHA   94  66  97  64 /  30  30  20  30
LBL   94  66  94  65 /  30  30   0  30
HYS   90  66  93  65 /  30  30   0  30
P28   93  68  93  68 /  30  30   0   0

.DDC...NONE.

FCSTID = 15

In the hours before

Local storm report, Jun 26, 8:39 AM CDT, 5 hours 58 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS
839 AM CDT WED JUN 26 2002

TIME(CDT)  .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE  ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....COUNTY LOCATION....

0330 AM    4NW CIMARRON              KS   60 MPH TSTM GUST
06/26/02   GRAY

Special weather statement, Jun 26, 11:24 AM CDT, 3 hours 13 minutes before

KSZ030-031-043>046-061>066-074>081-084>090-270600-

HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS
1124 AM CDT WED JUN 26 2002

THERE IS A SLIGHT CHANCE FOR SPOTTER ACTIVATION LATE TODAY AND THIS
EVENING SOUTHEAST OF LINE FROM LACROSSE TO DODGE CITY TO MEADE.
THE RISK OF SEVERE STORMS WILL BE FROM 4 TO 10 PM CDT.

AS THE AFTERNOON WEARS ON AND THE SUN BREAKS THROUGH IN A FEW
PLACES, SURFACE HEATING WILL COMMENCE.  CONDITIONS WILL BECOME
INCREASINGLY UNSTABLE THROUGH THIS EVENING.  DURING THE DAY,
SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE EAST OF A WAKEENEY TO ASHLAND LINE,
WITH THE MAIN HAZARDS FROM THESE STORMS BEING LIGHTNING AND WIND
GUSTS TO 45 MPH.  BY LATE THIS AFTERNOON, ADDITIONAL SCATTERED
THUNDERSTORMS ARE POSSIBLE SOUTHEAST OF A LACROSSE TO DODGE CITY TO
MEADE LINE.  AN ISOLATED STORM OR TWO MAY REACH SEVERE LIMITS,
CAPABLE OF PRODUCING UP TO NICKEL SIZE HAIL AND WIND GUSTS OVER 60
MPH.  EMERGENCY MANAGERS SHOULD STAY ALERT TO CHANGES IN THIS
WEATHER SITUATION.

ADDITIONAL WEATHER INFORMATION CAN BE FOUND ON OUR WEBSITE AT:
HTTP://WWW.CRH.NOAA.GOV/DDC

BURKE

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 26, 3:20 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Gray	40 min
Jun 26, 1:58 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Kiowa	32 min
Jun 26, 2:03 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Stafford	27 min
Jun 26, 2:14 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Comanche	31 min
Jun 26, 2:30 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Pratt	45 min
Jun 26, 3:15 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Barber, Pratt	45 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.