Alert archive / Kansas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2002

Severe Thunderstorm Warning 238, NWS Dodge City, KS

July 28, 2002Hodgeman County, Kansas

NWS Dodge City, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 28, 2002, 4:54 PM CDT for Hodgeman County, Kansas. It was in force for 51 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 28, 2002, 4:54 PM CDT (21:54 UTC)
Expired: Jul 28, 2002, 5:45 PM CDT
In force: 51 min
Issued by: NWS Dodge City, KS
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Hodgeman County, KS

The radar

The Dodge City radar (KDDC), 40 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:57 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 28, 5:17 PM CDT	Thunderstorm Wind 51 M	Jetmore, 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, 9.9 hours before the alert went out and 38 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: 375 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -184 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1494 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 6 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -2 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 103 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

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

019 
WUUS53 KDDC 282154
SVRDDC
KSC083-282245-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS
454 PM CDT SUN JUL 28 2002

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN DODGE CITY HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  HODGEMAN COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST KANSAS

* UNTIL 545 PM CDT

* AT 454 PM CDT...DODGE CITY DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A LINE OF SEVERE
  THUNDERSTORMS ALONG A LINE EXTENDING FROM 13 MILES NORTHWEST OF    
  JETMORE TO 14 MILES WEST OF JETMORE...MOVING EAST AT 35 MPH.

* SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED
  JETMORE AT 505 PM CDT
  HANSTON AT 520 PM CDT
  GRAY AT 530 PM CDT

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

FOR YOUR SAFETY SEEK A STURDY SHELTER IMMEDIATELY

LAT...LON 3824 10009 3792 10023 3792 9960 3825 9957

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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
Jul 27, 7:30 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Pawnee	45 min
Jul 27, 8:28 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Ellis	47 min
Jul 27, 9:16 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Ellis	44 min
Jul 28, 4:08 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Trego	67 min
Jul 28, 4:12 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Trego	63 min
Jul 28, 4:38 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Ness	67 min
Jul 28, 5:14 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Stanton	61 min
Jul 28, 6:17 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Ford	58 min
Jul 28, 6:58 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Comanche	77 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Kansas, 2002 Every severe thunderstorm warning in 2002

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.