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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 37, NWS Dodge City, KS

May 6, 2002Trego County, Kansas

NWS Dodge City, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 6, 2002, 6:13 PM CDT for Trego County, Kansas. It was in force for 62 min. 5 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 6, 2002, 6:13 PM CDT (23:13 UTC)
Expired: May 6, 2002, 7:15 PM CDT
In force: 62 min
Issued by: NWS Dodge City, KS
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Trego County, KS

The radar

The Dodge City radar (KDDC), 142 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:12 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
May 6, 6:22 PM CDT	Hail 0.75	Collyer, KS
May 6, 6:31 PM CDT	Hail 1	Collyer, KS
May 6, 6:50 PM CDT	Hail 1	Collyer, KS
May 6, 7:10 PM CDT	Hail 1	Voda, KS
May 6, 7:17 PM CDT	Hail 1	Voda, 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

Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 12:00Z, 11.2 hours before the alert went out and 141 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 114 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -438 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 2567 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 34 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 12 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 34 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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The text

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

000 
WUUS53 KDDC 062313
SVRDDC
KSC195-070015-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS
612 PM CDT MON MAY 6 2002

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN DODGE CITY HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  NORTHERN TREGO COUNTY IN WEST CENTRAL KANSAS

* UNTIL 715 PM CDT

* AT 612 PM CDT...DODGE CITY DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE
  THUNDERSTORM 8 MILES SOUTH OF COLLYER...OR ABOUT 12 MILES SOUTHEAST
  OF QUINTER...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 20 MPH.

* SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED
  COLLYER AT 620 PM CDT
  VODA AT 635 PM CDT
  WAKEENEY AT 645 PM CDT

THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM IS CAPABLE OF PRODUCING...
  HAIL THE SIZE OF NICKELS,
  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. 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 3911 10012 3885 10014 3892 9976 3911 9974
          3913 9988

KRUSE

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 5, 8:29 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Rush	46 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.