Alert archive / Kansas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2002
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 330, NWS Dodge City, KS
NWS Dodge City, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Oct 3, 2002, 6:29 PM CDT for Barber 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
- Oct 3, 2002, 6:29 PM CDT (23:29 UTC)
- Expired
- Oct 3, 2002, 7:15 PM CDT
- In force
- 46 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), 61 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:30 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 3, 6:55 PM CDT | Thunderstorm Wind 52 E | Hardtner, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 3, 5:40 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 5 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Lamont, OK (KLMN), launched 12:00Z, 11.5 hours before the alert went out and 117 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
- 108 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -102 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 0 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 48 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 153 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 190 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- -0.0
- Supercell composite
- -6.8
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
034 WUUS53 KDDC 032329 SVRDDC KSC007-040015- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS 628 PM CDT THU OCT 3 2002 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN DODGE CITY HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... SOUTHERN BARBER COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL KANSAS * UNTIL 715 PM CDT * AT 628 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 7 MILES SOUTHWEST OF HARDTNER...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 40 MPH. * SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED HARDTNER AT 635 PM CDT KIOWA AT 645 PM CDT HAZELTON AT 655 PM CDT MEDICINE LODGE AT 700 PM CDT SHARON AT 705 PM CDT THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM IS CAPABLE OF PRODUCING... DAMAGING HAIL THE SIZE OF GOLFBALLS, DAMAGING WINDS GREATER THAN 60 MILES AN HOUR, VERY FREQUENT AND DEADLY CLOUD-TO-GROUND LIGHTNING, FOR YOUR SAFETY SEEK A STURDY SHELTER IMMEDIATELY FOR YOUR PROTECTION MOVE TO AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF YOUR HOME OR BUSINESS. STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS. REMEMBER, SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS CAN, AND OCCASIONALLY DO, PRODUCE TORNADOES WITH LITTLE OR NO WARNING. LAT...LON 3701 9898 3686 9877 3709 9810 3746 9847 JOHNSON
The office that day
Everything else NWS Dodge City, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 3, 6:29 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Barber | 46 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.