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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 42, NWS Dodge City, KS

May 7, 2002Edwards County, Ford County, Kansas

NWS Dodge City, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 7, 2002, 5:16 PM CDT for Edwards County, Ford County, Kansas. It was in force for 44 min. 6 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 7, 2002, 5:16 PM CDT (22:16 UTC)
Expired: May 7, 2002, 6:00 PM CDT
In force: 44 min
Issued by: NWS Dodge City, KS
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

Counties Edwards County, KS, Ford County, KS

The radar

The Dodge City radar (KDDC), 29 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:15 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 7, 5:30 PM CDT	Hail 2.5	Dodge City, KS
May 7, 5:45 PM CDT	Hail 1.25	Spearville, KS
May 7, 5:45 PM CDT	Hail 1.25	Offerle, KS
May 7, 5:50 PM CDT	Hail 4.5	Offerle, KS
May 7, 5:50 PM CDT	Thunderstorm Wind 52 E	Offerle, KS
May 7, 5:53 PM CDT	Tornado F2	Windthorst, KS	This first tornado of the afternoon came close to striking a farm that was plowing his field. His tractor was running low on fuel and just made it back to shelter as irrigation pipe was flying by. Several pivots were destroyed.

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 7, 4:00 PM CDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	6 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 12:00Z, 10.3 hours before the alert went out and 23 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: 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 072216
SVRDDC
KSC047-057-072300-

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

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN DODGE CITY HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  SOUTHWESTERN EDWARDS COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL KANSAS
  NORTHEASTERN FORD COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST KANSAS

* UNTIL 600 PM CDT

* AT 516 PM CDT...DODGE CITY DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE
  THUNDERSTORM 3 MILES EAST OF WINDTHORST...OR ABOUT 10 MILES EAST OF
  SPEARVILLE...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 25 MPH.

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



LAT...LON 3787 9986 3760 9981 3762 9962 3774 9957
          3775 9938 3790 9937

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 7, 4:30 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Edwards, Ford, Kiowa	45 min
May 7, 4:41 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Edwards, Pawnee	49 min
May 7, 5:02 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Hodgeman	43 min
May 7, 5:44 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Edwards, Ford, Hodgeman, Pawnee	46 min
May 7, 5:53 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	DDC	Edwards, Ford	37 min
May 7, 6:15 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	DDC	Kiowa	45 min
May 7, 6:32 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	DDC	Edwards, Ford	43 min
May 7, 6:56 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	DDC	Clark, Ford	34 min
May 7, 6:56 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	DDC	Kiowa	49 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.