Alert archive / Kansas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2002
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 35, NWS Dodge City, KS
NWS Dodge City, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 5, 2002, 7:09 PM CDT for Ness County, Pawnee County, Rush County, Kansas. It was in force for 81 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
- May 5, 2002, 7:09 PM CDT (00:09 UTC)
- Expired
- May 5, 2002, 8:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 81 min
- Issued by
- NWS Dodge City, KS
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
Counties Ness County, KS, Pawnee County, KS, Rush County, KS
The radar
The Dodge City radar (KDDC), 86 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:11 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 5, 7:15 PM CDT | Hail 1 | Bazine, KS | |
| May 5, 7:30 PM CDT | Hail 1 | Burdett, KS | |
| May 5, 7:31 PM CDT | Hail 1 | Burdett, KS | |
| May 5, 8:40 PM CDT | Hail 1 | Timken, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 5, 2:45 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 00:00Z, 0.2 hours before the alert went out and 82 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
- 2199 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -35 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1272 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 55 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 116 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 207 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 1.9
- Supercell composite
- 9.9
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000
WUUS53 KDDC 060009
SVRDDC
KSC135-145-165-060130-
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS
709 PM CDT SUN MAY 5 2002
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN DODGE CITY HAS ISSUED A
* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
SOUTHERN RUSH COUNTY IN CENTRAL KANSAS
NORTHERN PAWNEE COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL KANSAS
SOUTHEASTERN NESS COUNTY IN WEST CENTRAL KANSAS
* UNTIL 830 PM CDT
* AT 709 PM CDT...DODGE CITY DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE
THUNDERSTORM 7 MILES WEST OF BURDETT...OR ABOUT 16 MILES NORTHEAST
OF JETMORE...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 20 MPH.
* SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED
BURDETT AT 720 PM CDT
ROZEL AT 735 PM CDT
SANFORD AT 750 PM CDT
FRIZELL AT 800 PM CDT
RUSH CENTER AT 805 PM CDT
ASH VALLEY AT 810 PM CDT
THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM IS CAPABLE OF PRODUCING...
DAMAGING HAIL THE SIZE OF GOLFBALLS,
WIND UP TO 60 MILES AN HOUR,
A TORNADO WATCH IS ALSO IN EFFECT. REMEMBER...SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS
CAN PRODUCE TORNADOES WITH LITTLE OR NO ADVANCE WARNING.
LAT...LON 3859 9905 3815 9904 3814 9956 3825 9956
3836 9968
21The office that day
Everything else NWS Dodge City, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 5, 8:29 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Rush | 46 min |
| May 6, 6:13 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Trego | 62 min |
| May 6, 6:52 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Stafford | 53 min |
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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.