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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 323, NWS Dodge City, KS

September 18, 2002Barber County, Kansas

NWS Dodge City, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Sep 18, 2002, 3:38 PM CDT for Barber County, Kansas. It was in force for 52 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
Sep 18, 2002, 3:38 PM CDT (20:38 UTC)
Expired
Sep 18, 2002, 4:30 PM CDT
In force
52 min
Issued by
NWS Dodge City, KS
Area
Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Barber County, KS

The radar

The Vance AFB radar (KVNX), 67 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:37 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
Sep 18, 3:50 PM CDTHail 0.75Sharon, 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 nearest sounding before it

Lamont, OK (KLMN), launched 12:00Z, 8.6 hours before the alert went out and 116 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, Lamont, OK at 12:00Z on 2002-09-18Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 714 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, Lamont, OK at 12:00Z on 2002-09-18The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 454 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
714 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-437 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1804 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
34 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
454 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
535 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.2

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The text

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

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WUUS53 KDDC 182038
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BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS
338 PM CDT WED SEP 18 2002

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN DODGE CITY HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  EASTERN BARBER COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL KANSAS

* UNTIL 430 PM CDT

* AT 338 PM CDT...4 MILES SOUTH OF SHARON...MOVING EAST AT 20 MPH.

* SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED
  RURAL BARBER COUNTY AT 350 PM CDT

THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM IS CAPABLE OF PRODUCING...
  HAIL THE SIZE OF NICKELS,
  DAMAGING WINDS GREATER THAN 60 MILES AN HOUR,



LAT...LON 3744 9859 3702 9869 3703 9839 3731 9838

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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.