Alert archive / Kansas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2002
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 249, NWS Dodge City, KS
NWS Dodge City, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 9, 2002, 8:56 PM CDT for Stanton County, Kansas. It was in force for 64 min. 2 reports 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
- Aug 9, 2002, 8:56 PM CDT (01:56 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 9, 2002, 10:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 64 min
- Issued by
- NWS Dodge City, KS
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Stanton County, KS
The radar
The Dodge City radar (KDDC), 165 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:56 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 9, 9:45 PM CDT | Thunderstorm Wind 52 E | Manter, KS | |
| Aug 9, 10:00 PM CDT | Thunderstorm Wind 78 E | Johnson, KS | The roof of a mobile home and a grain bin were damaged. A pivot sprinkler was twisted by the high wind. |
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, 1.9 hours before the alert went out and 171 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
- 1328 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -137 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1025 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 57 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 136 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 310 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 1.1
- Supercell composite
- 2.5
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
531 WUUS53 KDDC 100156 SVRDDC KSC187-100300- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS 856 PM CDT FRI AUG 9 2002 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN DODGE CITY HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... STANTON COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST KANSAS * UNTIL 1000 PM CDT * AT 854 PM CDT...DODGE CITY DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 33 MILES NORTHWEST OF MANTER...OR ABOUT 22 MILES SOUTHWEST OF COOLIDGE...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 30 MPH. * SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED RURAL NORTHWEST STANTON COUNTY AFTER 905 PM CDT MANTER AT 935 PM CDT JOHNSON CITY AT 945 PM CDT THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM IS CAPABLE OF PRODUCING... DAMAGING HAIL THE SIZE OF GOLFBALLS, DAMAGING WINDS GREATER THAN 60 MILES AN HOUR, STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS. 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 3773 10204 3740 10203 3740 10154 3772 10153 BURKE
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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.