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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 240, NWS Dodge City, KS

July 28, 2002Ford County, Kansas

NWS Dodge City, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 28, 2002, 6:17 PM CDT for Ford County, Kansas. It was in force for 58 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, 6:17 PM CDT (23:17 UTC)
Expired: Jul 28, 2002, 7:15 PM CDT
In force: 58 min
Issued by: NWS Dodge City, KS
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Ford County, KS

The radar

The Dodge City radar (KDDC), 15 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:18 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, 6:38 PM CDT	Hail 0.75	Dodge City, 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, 11.3 hours before the alert went out and 18 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

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The text

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

093 
WUUS53 KDDC 282317
SVRDDC
KSC057-290015-

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

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN DODGE CITY HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  SOUTHWESTERN FORD COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST KANSAS

* UNTIL 715 PM CDT

* AT 617 PM CDT...DODGE CITY DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE
  THUNDERSTORM 19 MILES WEST OF FORD...OR ABOUT 7 MILES EAST OF
  ENSIGN...MOVING EAST AT 10 MPH.

* SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED
  FORD AT 715 PM CDT

THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM IS 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 3772 10018 3751 10019 3747 9976 3773 9975

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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, 4:54 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Hodgeman	51 min
Jul 28, 5:14 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Stanton	61 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.