Alert archive / Kansas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2002

Severe Thunderstorm Warning 3, NWS Dodge City, KS

April 17, 2002Kiowa County, Kansas

NWS Dodge City, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 17, 2002, 5:33 PM CDT for Kiowa County, Kansas. It was in force for 42 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: Apr 17, 2002, 5:33 PM CDT (22:33 UTC)
Expired: Apr 17, 2002, 6:15 PM CDT
In force: 42 min
Issued by: NWS Dodge City, KS
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Kiowa County, KS

The radar

The Dodge City radar (KDDC), 57 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:35 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
Apr 17, 5:50 PM CDT	Thunderstorm Wind 52 E	Mullinville, KS
Apr 17, 5:55 PM CDT	Hail 0.88	Greensburg, KS
Apr 17, 5:56 PM CDT	Hail 1	Mullinville, 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
Apr 17, 5:15 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	6 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 12:00Z, 10.6 hours before the alert went out and 52 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: 0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL: 1612 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 58 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 283 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 399 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

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

000 
WUUS53 KDDC 172233
SVRDDC
KSC097-172315-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS
532 PM CDT WED APR 17 2002

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN DODGE CITY HAS ISSUED A

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

* UNTIL 615 PM CDT

* AT 532 PM CDT...DODGE CITY DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE
  THUNDERSTORM 19 MILES SOUTH OF MULLINVILLE...OR ABOUT 8 MILES NORTH
  OF PROTECTION...MOVING NORTH AT 40 MPH.

* SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED
  MULLINVILLE AT 555 PM CDT
  GREENSBURG AT 600 PM CDT
  HAVILAND AT 605 PM CDT

THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM IS CAPABLE OF PRODUCING...
  HAIL THE SIZE OF NICKELS,
  DAMAGING WIND GREATER THAN 60 MILES AN HOUR,

FOR YOUR PROTECTION MOVE TO AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF
YOUR HOME OR BUSINESS. STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS. 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 3739 9954 3739 9929 3769 9903 3770 9925
          3771 9954 3741 9954

BURGERT

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Apr 17, 5:04 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Clark, Comanche	41 min
Apr 17, 5:47 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Comanche	28 min
Apr 17, 6:05 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Edwards	25 min
Apr 17, 6:16 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Kiowa, Pratt	44 min
Apr 17, 6:26 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Stafford	34 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.