Alert archive / Kansas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2002
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 36, NWS Dodge City, KS
NWS Dodge City, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 5, 2002, 8:29 PM CDT for Rush 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
- May 5, 2002, 8:29 PM CDT (01:29 UTC)
- Expired
- May 5, 2002, 9:15 PM CDT
- In force
- 46 min
- Issued by
- NWS Dodge City, KS
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Rush County, KS
The radar
The Dodge City radar (KDDC), 100 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:31 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, 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, 1.5 hours before the alert went out and 95 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 060129 SVRDDC KSC165-060215- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS 828 PM CDT SUN MAY 5 2002 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN DODGE CITY HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... SOUTHEASTERN RUSH COUNTY IN CENTRAL KANSAS * UNTIL 915 PM CDT * AT 828 PM CDT...DODGE CITY DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 10 MILES SOUTH OF TIMKEN...OR ABOUT 12 MILES NORTHWEST OF LARNED...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 15 MPH. * SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED TIMKEN AT 845 PM CDT SHAFFER AT 900 PM CDT OTIS AT 910 PM CDT THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM IS CAPABLE OF PRODUCING... HAIL THE SIZE OF NICKELS, WIND UP TO 60 MILES AN HOUR THIS WARNING REPLACES THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING PREVIOUSLY ISSUED FOR SOUTHERN RUSH COUNTY. A TORNADO WATCH IS ALSO IN EFFECT. REMEMBER...SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS CAN PRODUCE TORNADOES WITH LITTLE OR NO ADVANCE WARNING. LAT...LON 3837 9933 3833 9918 3835 9903 3860 9902 21
The office that day
Everything else NWS Dodge City, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 5, 7:09 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Ness, Pawnee, Rush | 81 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 |
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.