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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 288, NWS Dodge City, KS

August 16, 2002Meade County, Kansas

NWS Dodge City, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 16, 2002, 6:15 AM CDT for Meade County, Kansas. It was in force for 45 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 16, 2002, 6:15 AM CDT (11:15 UTC)
Expired
Aug 16, 2002, 7:00 AM CDT
In force
45 min
Issued by
NWS Dodge City, KS
Area
Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Meade County, KS

The radar

The Dodge City radar (KDDC), 69 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 11:15 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.

The nearest sounding before it

Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 00:00Z, 11.3 hours before the alert went out and 75 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.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Dodge City, at 00:00Z on 2002-08-16Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 3420 joules per kilogram.LCLEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Dodge City, at 00:00Z on 2002-08-16The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -21 square meters per square second.1939Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.
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

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

119 
WUUS53 KDDC 161115
SVRDDC
KSC119-161200-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS
613 AM CDT FRI AUG 16 2002

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN DODGE CITY HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  NORTHWESTERN MEADE COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST KANSAS

* UNTIL 700 AM CDT

* AT 613 AM CDT...DODGE CITY DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE
  THUNDERSTORM 3 MILES NORTH OF PLAINS CITY...MOVING NORTH AT 5 MPH.

* SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED
  RESIDENTS OF NORTHWESTERN MEADE COUNTY

THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM IS CAPABLE OF PRODUCING...
  HAIL THE SIZE OF NICKELS,

HEAVY RAINS FLOOD ROADS QUICKLY SO DO NOT DRIVE INTO AREAS WHERE
WATER COVERS THE ROAD.

LAT...LON 3725 10063 3724 10043 3747 10038 3746 10064

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The office that day

Everything else NWS Dodge City, KS issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Aug 15, 7:44 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCFord61 min
Aug 15, 8:15 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCPawnee60 min
Aug 15, 8:31 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCHodgeman59 min
Aug 15, 8:43 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCFord47 min
Aug 16, 5:24 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCMeade51 min
Aug 16, 10:43 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCSeward47 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Kansas, 2002Every severe thunderstorm warning in 2002

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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.