Alert archive / Kansas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2002
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 245, NWS Dodge City, KS
NWS Dodge City, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 28, 2002, 9:02 PM CDT for Comanche 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, 9:02 PM CDT (02:02 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 28, 2002, 10:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 58 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), 89 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 02:03 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, 9:30 PM CDT | Hail 0.75 | Coldwater, 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 watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 28, 7:45 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 5 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 00:00Z, 2.0 hours before the alert went out and 86 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.
- 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
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
358 WUUS53 KDDC 290202 SVRDDC KSC033-290300- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS 901 PM CDT SUN JUL 28 2002 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN DODGE CITY HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... SOUTHERN COMANCHE COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL KANSAS * UNTIL 1000 PM CDT * AT 901 PM CDT...DODGE CITY DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 6 MILES EAST OF BUTTERMILK...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 20 MPH. * SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED RURAL AREAS OF SOUTHERN COMANCHE COUNTY 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 FOR COMANCHE COUNTY. HEAVY RAINS FLOOD ROADS QUICKLY SO DO NOT DRIVE INTO AREAS WHERE WATER COVERS THE ROAD. REPORT SEVERE WEATHER TO THE NEAREST LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCY. THEY WILL RELAY YOUR REPORT TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORECAST OFFICE IN DODGE CITY. LAT...LON 3722 9952 3701 9952 3703 9902 3727 9902 21
The office that day
Everything else NWS Dodge City, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 28, 7:09 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Clark, Ford, Kiowa | 81 min |
| Jul 28, 8:16 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Comanche | 44 min |
| Jul 28, 8:44 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Stanton | 46 min |
| Jul 28, 9:30 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Stanton | 30 min |
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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.