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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 321, NWS Dodge City, KS

August 26, 2002Meade County, Kansas

NWS Dodge City, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 26, 2002, 11:01 PM CDT for Meade County, Kansas. It was in force for 29 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: Aug 26, 2002, 11:01 PM CDT (04:01 UTC)
Expired: Aug 26, 2002, 11:30 PM CDT
In force: 29 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), 81 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 04:03 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.

The nearest sounding before it

Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 00:00Z, 4.0 hours before the alert went out and 84 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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.

879 
WUUS53 KDDC 270401
SVRDDC
KSC119-270430-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS
1100 PM CDT MON AUG 26 2002

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN DODGE CITY HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  SOUTHERN MEADE COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST KANSAS

* UNTIL 1130 PM CDT

* AT 1100 PM CDT...DODGE CITY DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE
  THUNDERSTORM OVER MEADE COUNTY...OR ABOUT 6 MILES NORTHWEST OF
  ENGLEWOOD...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 30 MPH.

THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM IS CAPABLE OF PRODUCING...
  WINDS OF 60 MILES AN HOUR,

THIS WARNING REPLACES THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING PREVIOUSLY
ISSUED.

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 3717 10012 3708 10063 3702 10063 3702 10010

FINCH

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, 10:08 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Meade	52 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, 11:10 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.