Alert archive / Kansas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2002
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 270, NWS Dodge City, KS
NWS Dodge City, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 12, 2002, 8:53 PM CDT for Pawnee County, Stafford County, Kansas. It was in force for 67 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, 8:53 PM CDT (01:53 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 12, 2002, 10:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 67 min
- Issued by
- NWS Dodge City, KS
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
Counties Pawnee County, KS, Stafford 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, 1.9 hours before the alert went out and 105 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.
837 WUUS53 KDDC 130153 SVRDDC KSC145-185-130300- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS 853 PM CDT MON AUG 12 2002 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN DODGE CITY HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... SOUTHEASTERN PAWNEE COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL KANSAS STAFFORD COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL KANSAS * UNTIL 1000 PM CDT * AT 853 PM CDT...DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM OVER RADIUM...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 15 MPH. * SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED SEWARD AT 905 PM CDT MACKSVILLE AT 920 PM CDT DILLWYN AT 930 PM CDT ST. JOHN AT 935 PM CDT THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM IS CAPABLE OF PRODUCING... HAIL THE SIZE OF QUARTERS, WINDS OF 60 MILES AN HOUR, A TORNADO WATCH IS ALSO IN EFFECT. REMEMBER...SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS CAN PRODUCE TORNADOES WITH LITTLE OR NO ADVANCE WARNING. FOR YOUR SAFETY SEEK A STURDY SHELTER IMMEDIATELY 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 3825 9865 3817 9909 3789 9900 3795 9848 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, 8:15 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Meade | 60 min |
| 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, 8:58 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.