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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 76, NWS Dodge City, KS

May 11, 2002Comanche County, Kansas

NWS Dodge City, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 11, 2002, 8:11 PM CDT for Comanche County, Kansas. It was in force for 49 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 11, 2002, 8:11 PM CDT (01:11 UTC)
Expired
May 11, 2002, 9:00 PM CDT
In force
49 min
Issued by
NWS Dodge City, KS
Area
Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Comanche County, KS

The radar

The Dodge City radar (KDDC), 82 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:15 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

TimeReportWhereRemark
May 11, 8:20 PM CDTThunderstorm Wind 78 EColdwater, KSSix inch diameter tree limbs blown down.
May 11, 8:30 PM CDTHail 1.75Protection, KS
May 11, 8:35 PM CDTHail 1Coldwater, KS
May 11, 8:39 PM CDTHail 2.75Protection, KS
May 11, 8:40 PM CDTHail 2.5Coldwater, KSHail covered the ground and windows were broken out. Many cars slid off the road in the vicinity due to the hail covering the highway.
May 11, 8:45 PM CDTHail 2Coldwater, 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, 8:00 PM CDTTornado WatchSPC5 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 00:00Z, 1.2 hours before the alert went out and 79 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 00:00Z on 2002-05-12Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 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 00:00Z on 2002-05-12The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 227 square meters per square second.1939587897117Sfc1 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
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
1697 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
74 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
227 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
503 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 120111
SVRDDC
KSC033-120200-

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

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN DODGE CITY HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  COMANCHE COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL KANSAS

* UNTIL 900 PM CDT

* AT 811 PM CDT...DODGE CITY DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A LINE OF SEVERE
  THUNDERSTORMS ALONG A LINE EXTENDING FROM 7 MILES NORTHWEST OF LAKE
  COLDWATER TO WILMORE TO 9 MILES EAST OF WILMORE...MOVING 
  NORTHEAST AT 20 MPH.

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

A TORNADO WATCH IS ALSO IN EFFECT. REMEMBER...SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS
CAN PRODUCE TORNADOES WITH LITTLE OR NO ADVANCE WARNING.

LAT...LON 3735 9952 3704 9952 3702 9904 3736 9902

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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
May 11, 7:24 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCComanche51 min
May 11, 7:52 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCClark53 min
May 11, 7:53 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCMeade52 min
May 11, 7:58 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCBarber, Pratt47 min
May 11, 8:14 PM CDTTornado WarningDDCBarber, Comanche46 min
May 11, 8:28 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCMeade32 min
May 11, 8:43 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCMeade, Seward47 min
May 11, 8:44 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCBarber, Pratt46 min
May 11, 8:47 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCClark43 min
May 11, 8:55 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCBarber, Comanche65 min
May 11, 9:31 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCMeade44 min
May 11, 9:43 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCKiowa47 min
May 11, 10:07 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCClark38 min
May 11, 10:53 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCBarber37 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.