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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 63, NWS Dodge City, KS

May 11, 2002Kiowa County, Kansas

NWS Dodge City, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 11, 2002, 5:29 PM CDT for Kiowa County, Kansas. It was in force for 46 min. 4 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 11, 2002, 5:29 PM CDT (22:29 UTC)
Expired
May 11, 2002, 6:15 PM CDT
In force
46 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), 55 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:29 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

TimeReportWhereRemark
May 11, 5:45 PM CDTHail 1.75Greensburg, KS
May 11, 5:51 PM CDTThunderstorm WindGreensburg, KSFour power poles were blown down.
May 11, 5:56 PM CDTTornado F0Greensburg, KSThis was a very brief tornado (but not a gustnado).
May 11, 6:00 PM CDTHail 0.88Greensburg, 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.

IssuedProductOfficeLasted
May 11, 2:30 PM CDTTornado WatchSPC6 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 12:00Z, 10.5 hours before the alert went out and 50 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 2002-05-11Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1296 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 2002-05-11The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 494 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
1296 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-195 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
719 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
46 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
494 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
564 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
3.5

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The text

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

000 
WUUS53 KDDC 112229
SVRDDC
KSC097-112315-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS
529 PM CDT SAT MAY 11 2002

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN DODGE CITY HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  NORTHERN KIOWA COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL KANSAS

* UNTIL 615 PM CDT

* AT 529 PM CDT...DODGE CITY DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE
  THUNDERSTORM 3 MILES NORTHWEST OF MULLINVILLE...OR ABOUT 8 MILES
  NORTHEAST OF BUCKLIN...MOVING EAST AT 15 MPH.

* SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED
  GREENSBURG AT 600 PM CDT
  HAVILAND AT 615 PM CDT

THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM IS CAPABLE OF PRODUCING...
  HAIL THE SIZE OF QUARTERS,
  WIND UP TO 60 MILES AN HOUR,
  VERY FREQUENT AND DEADLY CLOUD-TO-GROUND LIGHTNING,

A TORNADO WATCH IS ALSO IN EFFECT. REMEMBER...SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS
CAN PRODUCE TORNADOES WITH LITTLE OR NO ADVANCE WARNING. FOR YOUR
SAFETY SEEK A STURDY SHELTER IMMEDIATELY STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS.

LAT...LON 3772 9955 3750 9955 3749 9908 3773 9908

JOHNSON

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
May 11, 1:14 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCGrant, Haskell46 min
May 11, 1:39 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCFinney, Gray51 min
May 11, 3:44 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCGray, Meade46 min
May 11, 3:48 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCFord, Hodgeman42 min
May 11, 4:15 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCEdwards, Pawnee45 min
May 11, 4:24 PM CDTTornado WarningDDCEdwards, Pawnee36 min
May 11, 5:01 PM CDTTornado WarningDDCEdwards, Pawnee29 min
May 11, 5:09 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCStafford51 min
May 11, 5:13 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCEdwards47 min
May 11, 5:50 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCClark, Meade55 min
May 11, 5:57 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCPratt, Stafford63 min
May 11, 6:00 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCStafford30 min
May 11, 6:05 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCClark, Meade40 min
May 11, 6:06 PM CDTTornado WarningDDCStafford24 min
May 11, 6:13 PM CDTTornado WarningDDCPratt32 min
May 11, 6:38 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCStafford37 min
May 11, 6:41 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCStafford34 min
May 11, 6:41 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCClark, Ford, Meade, Seward64 min
May 11, 6:47 PM CDTTornado WarningDDCPratt28 min
May 11, 6:55 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCEdwards, Kiowa65 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.