Alert archive / Kansas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2002
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 317, NWS Dodge City, KS
NWS Dodge City, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 26, 2002, 10:08 PM CDT for Meade County, Kansas. It was in force for 52 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
- Aug 26, 2002, 10:08 PM CDT (03:08 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 26, 2002, 11:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 52 min
- Issued by
- NWS Dodge City, KS
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Meade County, KS
The radar
The Dodge City radar (KDDC), 63 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 03:08 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 26, 10:30 PM CDT | Thunderstorm Wind 78 E | Meade, KS | Eight to ten inch diameter tree branches were blown down. |
| Aug 26, 10:41 PM CDT | Thunderstorm Wind 52 E | Meade, KS | |
| Aug 26, 11:00 PM CDT | Thunderstorm Wind 52 E | Meade, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 26, 5:30 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 00:00Z, 3.1 hours before the alert went out and 67 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
- 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
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
812 WUUS53 KDDC 270308 SVRDDC KSC119-270400- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS 1008 PM CDT MON AUG 26 2002 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN DODGE CITY HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... MEADE COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST KANSAS * UNTIL 1100 PM CDT * AT 1008 PM CDT...DODGE CITY DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 8 MILES NORTH OF MISSLER...MOVING SOUTH AT 30 MPH. * SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED MISSLER AT 1015 PM CDT MEADE AT 1025 PM CDT MEADE STATE PARK AT 1035 PM CDT THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM IS CAPABLE OF PRODUCING... HAIL THE SIZE OF PENNIES, DAMAGING WINDS GREATER THAN 60 MILES AN HOUR, VERY FREQUENT AND DEADLY CLOUD-TO-GROUND LIGHTNING, 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 3745 10018 3745 10060 3701 10059 3701 10010 GERARD
The office that day
Everything else NWS Dodge City, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 26, 7:48 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Hamilton, Kearny | 42 min |
| Aug 26, 7:59 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Lane, Scott | 46 min |
| Aug 26, 8:24 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Hamilton, Kearny | 66 min |
| Aug 26, 8:32 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Finney | 43 min |
| Aug 26, 8:49 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Lane | 41 min |
| Aug 26, 9:02 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Gray | 43 min |
| Aug 26, 9:11 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Grant, Stanton | 64 min |
| Aug 26, 9:14 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Finney | 46 min |
| Aug 26, 9:25 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Hodgeman | 50 min |
| Aug 26, 9:54 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Ford | 51 min |
| Aug 26, 10:05 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Stevens | 55 min |
| Aug 26, 10:17 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Grant | 28 min |
| Aug 26, 10:30 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Seward | 45 min |
| Aug 26, 10:33 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Clark | 42 min |
| Aug 26, 11:01 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Meade | 29 min |
| Aug 26, 11:10 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Seward | 35 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.