Alert archive / Kansas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2002
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 267, NWS Dodge City, KS
NWS Dodge City, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 12, 2002, 8:15 PM CDT for Meade County, Kansas. It was in force for 60 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
- Aug 12, 2002, 8:15 PM CDT (01:15 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 12, 2002, 9:15 PM CDT
- In force
- 60 min
- Issued by
- NWS Dodge City, KS
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Meade County, KS
The watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 12, 3:30 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 7 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 00:00Z, 1.3 hours before the alert went out and 69 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
- 2080 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -70 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1516 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 46 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 158 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 339 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 1.3
- Supercell composite
- 23.8
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
462 WUUS53 KDDC 130115 SVRDDC KSC119-130215- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS 814 PM CDT MON AUG 12 2002 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN DODGE CITY HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... WESTERN MEADE COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST KANSAS * UNTIL 915 PM CDT * AT 814 PM CDT...DODGE CITY DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 4 MILES NORTHWEST OF MISSLER...MOVING SOUTH AT 15 MPH. * SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED MISSLER AT 820 PM CDT PLAINS CITY AT 835 PM CDT THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM IS CAPABLE OF PRODUCING... DAMAGING HAIL THE SIZE OF GOLFBALLS, 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 NORTHERN MEADE. A TORNADO WATCH IS ALSO IN EFFECT. REMEMBER...SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS CAN PRODUCE TORNADOES WITH LITTLE OR NO ADVANCE WARNING. STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS. HEAVY RAINS FLOOD ROADS QUICKLY SO DO NOT DRIVE INTO AREAS WHERE WATER COVERS THE ROAD. LAT...LON 3742 10038 3744 10060 3724 10063 3722 10040 BURGERT
The office that day
Everything else NWS Dodge City, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 12, 7:03 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Ford | 57 min |
| Aug 12, 7:35 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Meade | 40 min |
| Aug 12, 7:45 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Gray | 30 min |
| Aug 12, 7:49 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Hodgeman | 56 min |
| Aug 12, 7:54 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DDC | Meade | 51 min |
| Aug 12, 8:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Clark | 60 min |
| Aug 12, 8:10 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | DDC | Gray | 3 hr |
| Aug 12, 8:24 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Ford | 66 min |
| Aug 12, 8:44 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Meade | 61 min |
| Aug 12, 8:47 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DDC | Clark | 28 min |
| Aug 12, 8:53 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Pawnee, Stafford | 67 min |
| Aug 12, 8:58 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Seward | 47 min |
| Aug 12, 11:14 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Trego | 61 min |
| Aug 13, 1:34 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Hamilton | 26 min |
| Aug 13, 1:54 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Kearny | 36 min |
| Aug 13, 2:12 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Hamilton | 33 min |
| Aug 13, 2:20 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Grant | 25 min |
| Aug 13, 2:34 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Finney | 41 min |
| Aug 13, 2:45 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Hamilton | 45 min |
| Aug 13, 2:46 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Grant | 44 min |
| Aug 13, 3:07 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Morton | 38 min |
| Aug 13, 3:13 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Finney | 32 min |
Nearby
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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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.