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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 313, NWS Dodge City, KS

August 26, 2002Finney County, Kansas

NWS Dodge City, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 26, 2002, 9:14 PM CDT for Finney County, Kansas. It was in force for 46 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 26, 2002, 9:14 PM CDT (02:14 UTC)
Expired
Aug 26, 2002, 10:00 PM CDT
In force
46 min
Issued by
NWS Dodge City, KS
Area
Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Finney County, KS

The radar

The Dodge City radar (KDDC), 69 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 02:17 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

TimeReportWhereRemark
Aug 26, 9:30 PM CDTThunderstorm Wind 52 MHolcomb, 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
Aug 26, 5:30 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPC6 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 00:00Z, 2.2 hours before the alert went out and 75 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 00:00Z on 2002-08-27Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 882 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 00:00Z on 2002-08-27The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 15 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 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
882 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-128 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1721 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
42 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
15 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
204 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.1
Supercell composite
13.2

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The text

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

393 
WUUS53 KDDC 270214
SVRDDC
KSC055-270300-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS
912 PM CDT MON AUG 26 2002

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN DODGE CITY HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  FINNEY COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST KANSAS

* UNTIL 1000 PM CDT

* AT 912 PM CDT...DODGE CITY DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED THE LEADING 
EDGE OF A LINE OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS FROM KALVESTA TO PLYMELL 
...MOVING SOUTH AT 35 MPH.

THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM IS CAPABLE OF PRODUCING...
  HAIL THE SIZE OF PENNIES,
  DAMAGING WINDS GREATER THAN 60 MILES AN HOUR,
  VERY HEAVY RAINFALL WHICH MAY CAUSE LOCALIZED FLOODING,

FOR YOUR SAFETY SEEK A STURDY SHELTER IMMEDIATELY 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 3775 10107 3775 10067 3801 10066 3802 10024
          3824 10024 3824 10064 3809 10108

GERARD

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Aug 26, 7:48 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCHamilton, Kearny42 min
Aug 26, 7:59 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCLane, Scott46 min
Aug 26, 8:24 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCHamilton, Kearny66 min
Aug 26, 8:32 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCFinney43 min
Aug 26, 8:49 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCLane41 min
Aug 26, 9:02 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCGray43 min
Aug 26, 9:11 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCGrant, Stanton64 min
Aug 26, 9:25 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCHodgeman50 min
Aug 26, 9:54 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCFord51 min
Aug 26, 10:05 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCStevens55 min
Aug 26, 10:08 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCMeade52 min
Aug 26, 10:17 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCGrant28 min
Aug 26, 10:30 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCSeward45 min
Aug 26, 10:33 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCClark42 min
Aug 26, 11:01 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCMeade29 min
Aug 26, 11:10 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCSeward35 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.