Alert archive / Kansas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2002
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 268, NWS Dodge City, KS
NWS Dodge City, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 12, 2002, 8:24 PM CDT for Ford County, Kansas. It was in force for 66 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
- Aug 12, 2002, 8:24 PM CDT (01:24 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 12, 2002, 9:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 66 min
- Issued by
- NWS Dodge City, KS
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Ford County, KS
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 12, 8:25 PM CDT | Hail 1.75 | 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 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, 1.4 hours before the alert went out and 7 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.
339 WUUS53 KDDC 130124 SVRDDC KSC057-130230- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS 823 PM CDT MON AUG 12 2002 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN DODGE CITY HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... FORD COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST KANSAS * UNTIL 930 PM CDT * AT 823 PM CDT...DODGE CITY DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 7 MILES NORTH OF WRIGHT...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 10 MPH. * SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED WRIGHT AT 840 PM CDT SPEARVILLE AT 845 PM CDT FT. DODGE AT 850 PM CDT WINDTHORST AT 915 PM CDT FORD AT 940 PM CDT THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM IS CAPABLE OF PRODUCING... DAMAGING HAIL THE SIZE OF GOLFBALLS, A TORNADO WATCH IS ALSO IN EFFECT. REMEMBER...SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS CAN PRODUCE TORNADOES WITH LITTLE OR NO ADVANCE WARNING. LAT...LON 3791 10005 3748 9989 3748 9955 3791 9959 01
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, 8:15 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Meade | 60 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.