Alert archive / Kansas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2002
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 299, NWS Dodge City, KS
NWS Dodge City, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 23, 2002, 8:29 PM CDT for Meade County, Kansas. It was in force for 46 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 23, 2002, 8:29 PM CDT (01:29 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 23, 2002, 9:15 PM CDT
- In force
- 46 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), 75 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:28 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 23, 8:40 PM CDT | Hail 0.75 | Meade, KS | |
| Aug 23, 9:10 PM CDT | Hail 0.75 | Fowler, KS | |
| Aug 23, 9:14 PM CDT | Hail 1 | Fowler, 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, 1.5 hours before the alert went out and 79 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
- 1873 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -20 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1905 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 45 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 20 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 165 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.1
- Supercell composite
- 7.4
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
835 WUUS53 KDDC 240129 SVRDDC KSC119-240215- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS 829 PM CDT FRI AUG 23 2002 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN DODGE CITY HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... MEADE COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST KANSAS * UNTIL 915 PM CDT * AT 829 PM CDT...DODGE CITY DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 4 MILES SOUTH OF MEADE STATE PARK...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 15 MPH. * SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED MISSLER AT 855 PM CDT MEADE AT 905 PM CDT FOWLER AT 915 PM CDT THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM IS CAPABLE OF PRODUCING... HAIL THE SIZE OF QUARTERS, DAMAGING WINDS GREATER THAN 60 MILES AN HOUR, VERY HEAVY RAINFALL WHICH MAY CAUSE LOCALIZED FLOODING, LAT...LON 3702 10061 3700 10011 3745 10012 3746 10061 15
The office that day
Everything else NWS Dodge City, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 23, 9:12 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Clark, Meade | 48 min |
| Aug 23, 9:36 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Ford | 54 min |
| Aug 24, 12:30 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Scott | 45 min |
| Aug 24, 1:41 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Gray | 49 min |
| Aug 24, 2:03 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Ford | 57 min |
| Aug 24, 2:24 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Stafford | 51 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.