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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 31, NWS Dodge City, KS
NWS Dodge City, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 5, 2002, 5:25 PM CDT for Gray County, Kansas. It was in force for 35 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- May 5, 2002, 5:25 PM CDT (22:25 UTC)
- Expired
- May 5, 2002, 6:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 35 min
- Issued by
- NWS Dodge City, KS
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Gray County, KS
The radar
The Dodge City radar (KDDC), 33 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:26 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 5, 2:45 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 12:00Z, 10.4 hours before the alert went out and 38 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
- 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
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WUUS53 KDDC 052225 SVRDDC KSC069-052300- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS 525 PM CDT SUN MAY 5 2002 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN DODGE CITY HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... NORTHEASTERN GRAY COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST KANSAS * UNTIL 600 PM CDT * AT 525 PM CDT...DODGE CITY DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 8 MILES NORTHEAST OF CIMARRON...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 20 MPH. THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM IS CAPABLE OF PRODUCING... HAIL THE SIZE OF NICKELS, WIND UP TO 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 3772 10040 3775 10024 3795 10022 3795 10040 KRUSE
The office that day
Everything else NWS Dodge City, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 4, 7:09 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Barber, Pratt | 66 min |
| May 4, 7:32 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DDC | Barber | 43 min |
| May 4, 8:10 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DDC | Barber | 50 min |
| May 5, 3:25 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Lane | 65 min |
| May 5, 3:32 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Ellis | 43 min |
| May 5, 3:36 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Trego | 54 min |
| May 5, 3:49 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Ness | 56 min |
| May 5, 4:14 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Ellis | 46 min |
| May 5, 4:27 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Trego | 63 min |
| May 5, 4:33 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DDC | Ellis, Trego | 12 min |
| May 5, 4:43 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DDC | Ness, Trego | 47 min |
| May 5, 5:02 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Ellis | 58 min |
| May 5, 5:44 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Hodgeman | 61 min |
| May 5, 5:59 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Ellis | 46 min |
| May 5, 6:41 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Hodgeman | 49 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.