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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 229, NWS Dodge City, KS

July 10, 2002Pawnee County, Kansas

NWS Dodge City, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 10, 2002, 6:13 PM CDT for Pawnee County, Kansas. It was in force for 47 min. 2 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: Jul 10, 2002, 6:13 PM CDT (23:13 UTC)
Expired: Jul 10, 2002, 7:00 PM CDT
In force: 47 min
Issued by: NWS Dodge City, KS
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Pawnee County, KS

The radar

The Dodge City radar (KDDC), 91 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:15 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
Jul 10, 6:18 PM CDT	Hail 0.75	Larned, KS
Jul 10, 6:18 PM CDT	Thunderstorm Wind 52 E	Larned, 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 nearest sounding before it

Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 12:00Z, 11.2 hours before the alert went out and 85 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: 1438 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -130 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1797 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 24 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -15 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 36 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.9

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

832 
WUUS53 KDDC 102313
SVRDDC
KSC145-110000-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS
612 PM CDT WED JUL 10 2002

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN DODGE CITY HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  SOUTHEASTERN PAWNEE COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL KANSAS

* UNTIL 700 PM CDT

* AT 612 PM CDT...DODGE CITY DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE
  THUNDERSTORM 7 MILES NORTHEAST OF ZOOK...OR ABOUT 6 MILES SOUTHEAST
  OF LARNED...MOVING SOUTH AT 10 MPH.

* SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED
  ZOOK AT 630 PM CDT

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

THIS WARNING REPLACES THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING PREVIOUSLY 
ISSUED FOR SOUTHEASTERN PAWNEE COUNTY.

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 3818 9892 3820 9907 3813 9918 3800 9919
          3800 9892

BURGERT

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jul 10, 5:30 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Stafford	45 min
Jul 10, 5:41 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Pawnee, Stafford	34 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.