Alert archive / Kansas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2002
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 5, NWS Dodge City, KS
NWS Dodge City, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 17, 2002, 6:05 PM CDT for Edwards County, Kansas. It was in force for 25 min. 2 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
- Apr 17, 2002, 6:05 PM CDT (23:05 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 17, 2002, 6:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 25 min
- Issued by
- NWS Dodge City, KS
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Edwards County, KS
The radar
The Dodge City radar (KDDC), 71 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:05 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 17, 6:05 PM CDT | Hail 0.75 | Fellsburg, KS | |
| Apr 17, 6:05 PM CDT | Thunderstorm Wind 52 E | Fellsburg, 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 watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 17, 5:15 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 12:00Z, 11.1 hours before the alert went out and 65 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1612 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 58 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 283 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 399 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WUUS53 KDDC 172305 SVRDDC KSC047-172330- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS 605 PM CDT WED APR 17 2002 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN DODGE CITY HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... EASTERN EDWARDS COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL KANSAS * UNTIL 630 PM CDT * AT 605 PM CDT...DODGE CITY DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 7 MILES SOUTH OF CENTERVIEW...OR ABOUT 7 MILES NORTHEAST OF GREENSBURG...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 50 MPH. * SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED FELLSBURG AT 610 PM CDT TROUSDALE AT 615 PM THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM IS CAPABLE OF PRODUCING... HAIL THE SIZE OF QUARTERS, WIND UP TO 60 MILES AN HOUR, FOR YOUR SAFETY SEEK A STURDY SHELTER IMMEDIATELY STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS. 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 3774 9935 3774 9907 3775 9901 3799 9904 BURGERT
The office that day
Everything else NWS Dodge City, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 17, 5:04 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Clark, Comanche | 41 min |
| Apr 17, 5:33 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Kiowa | 42 min |
| Apr 17, 5:47 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Comanche | 28 min |
| Apr 17, 6:16 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Kiowa, Pratt | 44 min |
| Apr 17, 6:26 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Stafford | 34 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.