Alert archive / Kansas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2002

Severe Thunderstorm Warning 294, NWS Dodge City, KS

August 19, 2002Comanche County, Kansas

NWS Dodge City, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 19, 2002, 7:48 PM CDT for Comanche County, Kansas. It was in force for 57 min. 3 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 19, 2002, 7:48 PM CDT (00:48 UTC)
Expired: Aug 19, 2002, 8:45 PM CDT
In force: 57 min
Issued by: NWS Dodge City, KS
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Comanche County, KS

The radar

The Dodge City radar (KDDC), 89 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:49 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
Aug 19, 7:55 PM CDT	Hail 1	Buttermilk, KS
Aug 19, 8:12 PM CDT	Hail 1	Coldwater, KS
Aug 19, 8:22 PM CDT	Hail 1.5	Buttermilk, 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 nearest sounding before it

Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 00:00Z, 0.8 hours before the alert went out and 87 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 2528 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -171 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1170 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 24 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 242 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 439 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.4

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

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

564 
WUUS53 KDDC 200048
SVRDDC
KSC033-200145-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS
748 PM CDT MON AUG 19 2002

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN DODGE CITY HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  COMANCHE COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL KANSAS

* UNTIL 845 PM CDT

* AT 748 PM CDT...DODGE CITY DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE
  THUNDERSTORM 6 MILES SOUTH OF PROTECTION...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 10
  MPH.

* SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED
  PROTECTION AT 755 PM CDT
  BUTTERMILK AT 805 PM CDT
  LAKE COLDWATER 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 3718 9954 3700 9947 3700 9907 3712 9903
          3730 9940

FINCH

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Aug 19, 7:18 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Clark	57 min
Aug 19, 8:34 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Stevens	56 min
Aug 19, 8:45 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Comanche	45 min

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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.