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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 284, NWS Dodge City, KS
NWS Dodge City, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 15, 2002, 8:15 PM CDT for Pawnee County, Kansas. It was in force for 60 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 15, 2002, 8:15 PM CDT (01:15 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 15, 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 Pawnee County, KS
The radar
The Dodge City radar (KDDC), 83 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:18 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 15, 8:18 PM CDT | Hail 1 | Rozel, KS | |
| Aug 15, 8:25 PM CDT | Hail 0.75 | Rozel, 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 15, 3:35 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 00:00Z, 1.3 hours before the alert went out and 78 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
- 3420 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -5 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1861 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 17 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -21 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 32 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 1.3
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
859 WUUS53 KDDC 160115 SVRDDC KSC145-160215- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS 815 PM CDT THU AUG 15 2002 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN DODGE CITY HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... PAWNEE COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL KANSAS * UNTIL 915 PM CDT * AT 815 PM CDT...DODGE CITY DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 5 MILES NORTHEAST OF ROZEL...MOVING SOUTHWEST AT 10 MPH. * SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED ROZEL AT 830 PM CDT THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM IS CAPABLE OF PRODUCING... HAIL THE SIZE OF NICKELS, WINDS OF 60 MILES AN HOUR, 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 3833 9908 3834 9936 3825 9949 3812 9940
The office that day
Everything else NWS Dodge City, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 15, 7:44 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Ford | 61 min |
| Aug 15, 8:31 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Hodgeman | 59 min |
| Aug 15, 8:43 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Ford | 47 min |
| Aug 16, 5:24 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Meade | 51 min |
| Aug 16, 6:15 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Meade | 45 min |
| Aug 16, 10:43 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Seward | 47 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.