Alert archive / Kansas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2002
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 305, NWS Dodge City, KS
NWS Dodge City, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 24, 2002, 2:24 AM CDT for Stafford County, Kansas. It was in force for 51 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
- Aug 24, 2002, 2:24 AM CDT (07:24 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 24, 2002, 3:15 AM CDT
- In force
- 51 min
- Issued by
- NWS Dodge City, KS
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Stafford County, KS
The radar
The Dodge City radar (KDDC), 112 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 07:18 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 24, 2:45 AM CDT | Thunderstorm Wind 78 E | Hudson, KS | Twelve inch diameter tree branches were blown down. |
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, 7.4 hours before the alert went out and 106 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.
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WUUS53 KDDC 240724
SVRDDC
KSC185-240815-
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS
224 AM CDT SAT AUG 24 2002
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN DODGE CITY HAS ISSUED A
* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
STAFFORD COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL KANSAS
* UNTIL 315 AM CDT
* AT 224 AM CDT...DODGE CITY DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE
THUNDERSTORM 6 MILES NORTHWEST OF SEWARD...OR ABOUT 4 MILES NORTH
OF RADIUM...MOVING EAST AT 35 MPH.
* SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED
DILLWYN AT 230 AM CDT
ST. JOHN AT 235 AM CDT
HUDSON AT 240 AM CDT
STAFFORD AT 255 AM CDT
THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM IS CAPABLE OF PRODUCING...
HAIL THE SIZE OF NICKELS,
DAMAGING WINDS GREATER THAN 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 3823 9890 3811 9889 3787 9890 3790 9850
3823 9851
FINCHThe office that day
Everything else NWS Dodge City, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 23, 8:29 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Meade | 46 min |
| 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 |
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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.