Alert archive / Kansas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2002
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 322, NWS Dodge City, KS
NWS Dodge City, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 26, 2002, 11:10 PM CDT for Seward County, Kansas. It was in force for 35 min. 4 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, 11:10 PM CDT (04:10 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 26, 2002, 11:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 35 min
- Issued by
- NWS Dodge City, KS
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Seward County, KS
The radar
The Dodge City radar (KDDC), 104 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 04:13 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, 11:10 PM CDT | Hail 0.88 | Liberal, KS | |
| Aug 26, 11:15 PM CDT | Thunderstorm Wind 53 M | (Lbl)Liberal Arpt, KS | |
| Aug 26, 11:17 PM CDT | Hail 0.75 | Liberal, KS | |
| Aug 26, 11:30 PM CDT | Thunderstorm Wind 78 E | Hayne, KS | Power was knocked out for 1.5 hours due to downed power lines. |
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, 4.2 hours before the alert went out and 109 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.
259 WUUS53 KDDC 270410 SVRDDC KSC175-270545- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS 1108 PM CDT MON AUG 26 2002 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN DODGE CITY HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... SEWARD COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST KANSAS * UNTIL 1145 PM CDT * AT 1108 PM CDT...DODGE CITY DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 3 MILES SOUTHWEST OF HAYNE...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 40 MPH. * SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED RURAL SEWARD COUNTY EAST OF LIBERAL THROUGH 1145 PM. THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM IS CAPABLE OF PRODUCING... HAIL THE SIZE OF NICKELS, DAMAGING WINDS GREATER THAN 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 3700 10105 3701 10064 3721 10065 3733 10071 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, 11:01 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Meade | 29 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.