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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 243, NWS Dodge City, KS

July 28, 2002Comanche County, Kansas

NWS Dodge City, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 28, 2002, 8:16 PM CDT for Comanche County, Kansas. It was in force for 44 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
Jul 28, 2002, 8:16 PM CDT (01:16 UTC)
Expired
Jul 28, 2002, 9:00 PM CDT
In force
44 min
Issued by
NWS Dodge City, KS
Area
Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Comanche County, KS

The radar

The Dodge City radar (KDDC), 83 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:15 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The watch it was issued in

The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.

IssuedProductOfficeLasted
Jul 28, 7:45 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPC5 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 00:00Z, 1.3 hours before the alert went out and 79 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 2002-07-29Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 530 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 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 2002-07-29The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 142 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 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
530 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-173 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1360 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
29 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
142 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
264 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
2.5

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The text

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

123 
WUUS53 KDDC 290116
SVRDDC
KSC033-290200-

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

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN DODGE CITY HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  COMANCHE COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL KANSAS

* UNTIL 900 PM CDT

* AT 815 PM CDT...DODGE CITY DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE
  THUNDERSTORM 5 MILES SOUTHEAST OF COLDWATER...MOVING NORTHEAST AT
  15 MPH.

* SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED
  WILMORE AT 840 PM CDT

THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM IS CAPABLE OF PRODUCING...
  HAIL THE SIZE OF QUARTERS,
  DAMAGING WINDS GREATER THAN 60 MILES AN HOUR,
  VERY HEAVY RAINFALL WHICH MAY CAUSE LOCALIZED FLOODING,

THIS WARNING REPLACES THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING PREVIOUSLY
ISSUED.

STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS.

LAT...LON 3736 9949 3704 9950 3706 9902 3736 9902

21

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jul 28, 7:09 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCClark, Ford, Kiowa81 min
Jul 28, 8:44 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCStanton46 min
Jul 28, 9:02 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCComanche58 min
Jul 28, 9:30 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCStanton30 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Kansas, 2002Every 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.