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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 23, NWS Dodge City, KS

May 4, 2002Barber County, Pratt County, Kansas

NWS Dodge City, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 4, 2002, 7:09 PM CDT for Barber County, Pratt County, Kansas. It was in force for 66 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: May 4, 2002, 7:09 PM CDT (00:09 UTC)
Expired: May 4, 2002, 8:15 PM CDT
In force: 66 min
Issued by: NWS Dodge City, KS
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

Counties Barber County, KS, Pratt County, KS

The radar

The Dodge City radar (KDDC), 107 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:11 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.

The nearest sounding before it

Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 00:00Z, 0.2 hours before the alert went out and 101 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: 458 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -130 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1570 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 54 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 115 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 390 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.1
Supercell composite: 2.2

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The text

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

000 
WUUS53 KDDC 050009
SVRDDC
KSC007-151-050115-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS
709 PM CDT SAT MAY 4 2002

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN DODGE CITY HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  NORTHWESTERN BARBER COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL KANSAS
  PRATT COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL KANSAS

* UNTIL 815 PM CDT

* AT 709 PM CDT...DODGE CITY DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE
  THUNDERSTORM OVER SUN CITY...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 15 MPH.

* SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED
  CROFT AT 715 PM CDT
  COATS AT 740 PM CDT
  SAWYER AT 755 PM CDT
  PRATT AT 815 PM CDT

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

STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS.

LAT...LON 3746 9904 3727 9888 3753 9847 3781 9847
          3781 9882

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 4, 7:32 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	DDC	Barber	43 min
May 4, 8:10 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	DDC	Barber	50 min
May 5, 3:25 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Lane	65 min
May 5, 3:32 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Ellis	43 min
May 5, 3:36 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Trego	54 min
May 5, 3:49 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Ness	56 min
May 5, 4:14 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Ellis	46 min
May 5, 4:27 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Trego	63 min
May 5, 4:33 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	DDC	Ellis, Trego	12 min
May 5, 4:43 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	DDC	Ness, Trego	47 min
May 5, 5:02 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Ellis	58 min
May 5, 5:25 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Gray	35 min
May 5, 5:44 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Hodgeman	61 min
May 5, 5:59 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Ellis	46 min
May 5, 6:41 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Hodgeman	49 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.