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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 29, NWS Dodge City, KS
NWS Dodge City, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 5, 2002, 4:27 PM CDT for Trego County, Kansas. It was in force for 63 min. 4 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
- May 5, 2002, 4:27 PM CDT (21:27 UTC)
- Expired
- May 5, 2002, 5:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 63 min
- Issued by
- NWS Dodge City, KS
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Trego County, KS
The radar
The Dodge City radar (KDDC), 124 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:31 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 5, 4:32 PM CDT | Tornado F2 | Riga, KS | The tornado that developed 3.5 miles north and 5.5 miles east of Ogallah (north of Riga) moved slowly northeast reaching a width of 350 yards before crossing into Ellis county at 440 PM. A shed was destroyed near the starting point of the tornado. Along it's |
| May 5, 4:40 PM CDT | Tornado F3 | Ellis, KS | This tornado entered Ellis county from Trego county at 440 PM and continued a a northeast and easterly track. It did speed up at the end of it's life and as is typical, decreased in size. Another tornado was video taped just north and west of this tornado (d |
| May 5, 4:55 PM CDT | Hail 1.75 | Cedar Bluff Res, KS | |
| May 5, 5:15 PM CDT | Hail 2 | Wakeeney, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 5, 2:45 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 12:00Z, 9.5 hours before the alert went out and 123 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
- 282 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -438 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1423 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 40 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 68 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 77 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WUUS53 KDDC 052127 SVRDDC KSC195-052230- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS 427 PM CDT SUN MAY 5 2002 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN DODGE CITY HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... TREGO COUNTY IN WEST CENTRAL KANSAS * UNTIL 530 PM CDT * AT 427 PM CDT...DODGE CITY DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 11 MILES SOUTH OF TREGO CENTER...OR ABOUT 6 MILES NORTH OF RANSOM...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 20 MPH. * SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED TREGO CENTER AT 440 PM CDT CEDAR BLUFF AT 450 PM CDT WAKEENEY AT 455 PM CDT OGALLAH AT 510 PM CDT RIGA AT 520 PM CDT THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM IS CAPABLE OF PRODUCING... DAMAGING HAIL THE SIZE OF GOLFBALLS, DAMAGING WIND GREATER THAN 60 MILES AN HOUR, A TORNADO WATCH IS ALSO IN EFFECT. REMEMBER...SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS CAN PRODUCE TORNADOES WITH LITTLE OR NO ADVANCE WARNING. LAT...LON 3870 10006 3870 9970 3914 9959 3913 9992 KRUSE
The office that day
Everything else NWS Dodge City, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 4, 7:09 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Barber, Pratt | 66 min |
| May 4, 7:32 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DDC | Barber | 43 min |
| May 4, 8:10 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DDC | Barber | 50 min |
| May 5, 3:25 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Lane | 65 min |
| May 5, 3:32 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Ellis | 43 min |
| May 5, 3:36 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Trego | 54 min |
| May 5, 3:49 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Ness | 56 min |
| May 5, 4:14 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Ellis | 46 min |
| May 5, 4:33 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DDC | Ellis, Trego | 12 min |
| May 5, 4:43 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DDC | Ness, Trego | 47 min |
| May 5, 5:02 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Ellis | 58 min |
| May 5, 5:25 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Gray | 35 min |
| May 5, 5:44 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Hodgeman | 61 min |
| May 5, 5:59 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Ellis | 46 min |
| May 5, 6:41 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Hodgeman | 49 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.