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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 230, NWS Dodge City, KS

July 21, 2002Trego County, Kansas

NWS Dodge City, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 21, 2002, 8:42 PM CDT for Trego County, Kansas. It was in force for 33 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
Jul 21, 2002, 8:42 PM CDT (01:42 UTC)
Expired
Jul 21, 2002, 9:15 PM CDT
In force
33 min
Issued by
NWS Dodge City, KS
Area
Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Trego County, KS

The radar

The Dodge City radar (KDDC), 114 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:43 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

TimeReportWhereRemark
Jul 21, 8:43 PM CDTThunderstorm Wind 52 ECedar Bluff Res, 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 00:00Z, 1.7 hours before the alert went out and 113 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 2002-07-22Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1629 joules per kilogram.LCLEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Dodge City, at 00:00Z on 2002-07-22The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -11 square meters per square second.1939Sfc1 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
1629 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-1 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
2518 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
3 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-11 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
67 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.

884 
WUUS53 KDDC 220142
SVRDDC
KSC195-220215-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS
841 PM CDT SUN JUL 21 2002

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN DODGE CITY HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  SOUTHEASTERN TREGO COUNTY IN WEST CENTRAL KANSAS

* UNTIL 915 PM CDT

* AT 841 PM CDT...DODGE CITY DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE
  THUNDERSTORM 4 MILES SOUTH OF CEDAR BLUFF...MOVING NORTH AT 20 MPH.

* SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED
  CEDAR BLUFF THROUGH 9 PM

THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM IS CAPABLE OF PRODUCING...
  HAIL THE SIZE OF PENNIES,
  DAMAGING WIND GREATER THAN 60 MILES AN HOUR,



LAT...LON 3870 9991 3869 9962 3888 9960 3891 9975

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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.