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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 30, NWS Dodge City, KS

May 5, 2002Ellis County, Kansas

NWS Dodge City, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 5, 2002, 5:02 PM CDT for Ellis County, Kansas. It was in force for 58 min. 1 report 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, 5:02 PM CDT (22:02 UTC)
Expired
May 5, 2002, 6:00 PM CDT
In force
58 min
Issued by
NWS Dodge City, KS
Area
Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Ellis County, KS

The radar

The Dodge City radar (KDDC), 139 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:06 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.

What was reported inside it

TimeReportWhereRemark
May 5, 5:25 PM CDTHail 1.75Antonino, 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.

IssuedProductOfficeLasted
May 5, 2:45 PM CDTTornado WatchSPC6 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 12:00Z, 10.0 hours before the alert went out and 136 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 12:00Z on 2002-05-05Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 282 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 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 12:00Z on 2002-05-05The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 68 square meters per square second.1939587897Sfc1 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
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

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The text

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

000 
WUUS53 KDDC 052202
SVRDDC
KSC051-052300-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS
502 PM CDT SUN MAY 5 2002

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN DODGE CITY HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  ELLIS COUNTY IN CENTRAL KANSAS

* UNTIL 600 PM CDT

* AT 502 PM CDT...DODGE CITY DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE
  THUNDERSTORM 11 MILES WEST OF ANTONINO...OR ABOUT 9 MILES EAST OF
  CEDAR BLUFF...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 20 MPH.

* SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED
  ANTONINO AT 520 PM CDT
  YOCEMENTO AT 530 PM CDT
  HAYS AT 535 PM CDT
  TOULON AT 540 PM CDT
  VICTORIA AT 550 PM CDT
  CATHERINE AT 555 PM CDT

THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM IS CAPABLE OF PRODUCING...
  HAIL THE SIZE OF QUARTERS,
  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 3893 9959 3870 9962 3872 9907 3912 9906
          3912 9937

KRUSE

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
May 4, 7:09 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCBarber, Pratt66 min
May 4, 7:32 PM CDTTornado WarningDDCBarber43 min
May 4, 8:10 PM CDTTornado WarningDDCBarber50 min
May 5, 3:25 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCLane65 min
May 5, 3:32 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCEllis43 min
May 5, 3:36 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCTrego54 min
May 5, 3:49 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCNess56 min
May 5, 4:14 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCEllis46 min
May 5, 4:27 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCTrego63 min
May 5, 4:33 PM CDTTornado WarningDDCEllis, Trego12 min
May 5, 4:43 PM CDTTornado WarningDDCNess, Trego47 min
May 5, 5:25 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCGray35 min
May 5, 5:44 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCHodgeman61 min
May 5, 5:59 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCEllis46 min
May 5, 6:41 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCHodgeman49 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.