Alert archive / Kansas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2002
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 46, NWS Dodge City, KS
NWS Dodge City, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 7, 2002, 8:22 PM CDT for Kiowa County, Kansas. It was in force for 53 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, 8:22 PM CDT (01:22 UTC)
- Expired
- May 7, 2002, 9:15 PM CDT
- In force
- 53 min
- Issued by
- NWS Dodge City, KS
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Kiowa County, KS
The radar
The Dodge City radar (KDDC), 71 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:21 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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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 00:00Z, 1.4 hours before the alert went out and 66 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
- 512 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -210 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1278 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 60 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 351 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 498 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 2.9
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WUUS53 KDDC 080122 SVRDDC KSC097-080215- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS 822 PM CDT TUE MAY 7 2002 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN DODGE CITY HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... EASTERN KIOWA COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL KANSAS * UNTIL 915 PM CDT * AT 822 PM CDT...DODGE CITY DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS FROM 6 MILES NORTHEAST OF HAVILAND TO GREENSBURG ...MOVING EAST AT 15 MPH. THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM IS CAPABLE OF PRODUCING... DAMAGING HAIL THE SIZE OF GOLFBALLS, DAMAGING WIND GREATER THAN 60 MILES AN HOUR, THIS WARNING REPLACES THE TORNADO WARNING PREVIOUSLY ISSUED FOR EASTERN KIOWA. A TORNADO WATCH IS ALSO IN EFFECT. REMEMBER...SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS CAN PRODUCE TORNADOES WITH LITTLE OR NO ADVANCE WARNING. LAT...LON 3770 9929 3742 9927 3740 9906 3771 9903 16
The office that day
Everything else NWS Dodge City, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 7, 7:16 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Edwards | 44 min |
| May 7, 7:17 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | DDC | Edwards, Ford | 4 hr |
| May 7, 7:29 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DDC | Clark, Ford | 31 min |
| May 7, 7:45 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DDC | Kiowa | 45 min |
| May 7, 7:55 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DDC | Pratt | 50 min |
| May 7, 7:57 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Ford, Kiowa | 48 min |
| May 7, 8:07 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DDC | Ford, Kiowa | 38 min |
| May 7, 8:26 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Ford, Kiowa | 49 min |
| May 7, 8:29 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Clark | 31 min |
| May 7, 8:31 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Clark | 29 min |
| May 7, 8:42 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DDC | Pratt | 48 min |
| May 7, 8:44 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DDC | Clark, Kiowa | 31 min |
| May 7, 9:01 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Stafford | 44 min |
| May 7, 9:16 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Clark, Ford, Kiowa | 44 min |
| May 7, 9:30 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Pratt | 45 min |
| May 7, 9:56 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Pratt | 64 min |
| May 7, 10:01 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Kiowa | 44 min |
| May 7, 10:30 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DDC | Kiowa | 30 min |
| May 7, 11:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Barber, Kiowa, Pratt | 75 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.