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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 41, NWS Dodge City, KS

May 7, 2002Hodgeman County, Kansas

NWS Dodge City, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 7, 2002, 5:02 PM CDT for Hodgeman County, Kansas. It was in force for 43 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued
May 7, 2002, 5:02 PM CDT (22:02 UTC)
Expired
May 7, 2002, 5:45 PM CDT
In force
43 min
Issued by
NWS Dodge City, KS
Area
Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Hodgeman County, KS

The radar

The Dodge City radar (KDDC), 42 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:05 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 12:00Z, 10.0 hours before the alert went out and 38 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, Dodge City, at 12:00Z on 2002-05-07Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1217 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, Dodge City, at 12:00Z on 2002-05-07The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 106 square meters per square second.1939587897Sfc1 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
1217 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-347 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1311 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
42 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
106 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
118 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.3

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The text

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

000 
WUUS53 KDDC 072202
SVRDDC
KSC083-072245-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS
502 PM CDT TUE MAY 7 2002

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN DODGE CITY HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  EASTERN HODGEMAN COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST KANSAS

* UNTIL 545 PM CDT

* AT 502 PM CDT...DODGE CITY DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE
  THUNDERSTORM 10 MILES SOUTHEAST OF GRAY...OR ABOUT 10 MILES
  NORTHWEST OF KINSLEY...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 35 MPH.

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



LAT...LON 3813 9978 3794 9976 3794 9959 3822 9960

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The office that day

Everything else NWS Dodge City, KS issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
May 7, 4:30 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCEdwards, Ford, Kiowa45 min
May 7, 4:41 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCEdwards, Pawnee49 min
May 7, 5:16 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCEdwards, Ford44 min
May 7, 5:44 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCEdwards, Ford, Hodgeman, Pawnee46 min
May 7, 5:53 PM CDTTornado WarningDDCEdwards, Ford37 min
May 7, 6:15 PM CDTTornado WarningDDCKiowa45 min
May 7, 6:32 PM CDTTornado WarningDDCEdwards, Ford43 min
May 7, 6:56 PM CDTTornado WarningDDCClark, Ford34 min
May 7, 6:56 PM CDTTornado WarningDDCKiowa49 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Kansas, 2002Every severe thunderstorm warning in 2002

Sources

The product and its follow-ups from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service and Storm Prediction Center text; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.