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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 43, NWS Dodge City, KS

May 7, 20024 counties in Kansas

NWS Dodge City, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 7, 2002, 5:44 PM CDT for 4 counties in Kansas. It was in force for 46 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 7, 2002, 5:44 PM CDT (22:44 UTC)
Expired
May 7, 2002, 6:30 PM CDT
In force
46 min
Issued by
NWS Dodge City, KS
Area
Counties, with a storm outline in the text

Counties Edwards County, KS, Ford County, KS, Hodgeman County, KS, Pawnee County, KS

The radar

The Dodge City radar (KDDC), 42 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:45 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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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

TimeReportWhereRemark
May 7, 5:45 PM CDTHail 1.25Spearville, KS
May 7, 5:45 PM CDTHail 1.25Offerle, KS
May 7, 5:50 PM CDTHail 4.5Offerle, KS
May 7, 5:50 PM CDTThunderstorm Wind 52 EOfferle, KS
May 7, 5:53 PM CDTTornado F2Windthorst, KSThis 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.

IssuedProductOfficeLasted
May 7, 4:00 PM CDTTornado WatchSPC6 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 12:00Z, 10.7 hours before the alert went out and 36 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 072244
SVRDDC
KSC047-057-083-145-072330-

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

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN DODGE CITY HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  WESTERN EDWARDS COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL KANSAS
  WESTERN PAWNEE COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL KANSAS
  NORTHEASTERN FORD COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST KANSAS
  EASTERN HODGEMAN COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST KANSAS

* UNTIL 630 PM CDT

* AT 542 PM CDT...DODGE CITY DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A LINE OF SEVERE
  THUNDERSTORMS ALONG A LINE EXTENDING FROM 6 MILES SOUTHWEST OF
  WINDTHORST TO 5 MILES SOUTH OF ROZEL...
  MOVING NORTHEAST AT 20 MPH.

* SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED
  ROZEL AT 550 PM CDT
  WINDTHORST AT 555 PM CDT
  SANFORD AT 620 PM CDT
  KINSLEY AT 630 PM CDT

THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS ARE CAPABLE OF PRODUCING...
  DAMAGING HAIL THE SIZE OF GOLFBALLS,
  DAMAGING WIND GREATER THAN 60 MILES AN HOUR,

THIS WARNING REPLACES THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING PREVIOUSLY 
ISSUED FOR EASTERN HODGEMAN, SOUTHWESTERN EDWARDS, AND NORTHEASTERN FORD
COUNTIES.



LAT...LON 3821 9978 3766 9976 3774 9955 3777 9939
          3830 9926

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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, 5:02 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCHodgeman43 min
May 7, 5:16 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCEdwards, Ford44 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

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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.