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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 8, NWS Dodge City, KS

April 17, 2002Pratt County, Stafford County, Kansas

NWS Dodge City, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 17, 2002, 7:00 PM CDT for Pratt County, Stafford County, Kansas. It was in force for 30 min. 3 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, 7:00 PM CDT (00:00 UTC)
Expired: Apr 17, 2002, 7:30 PM CDT
In force: 30 min
Issued by: NWS Dodge City, KS
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

Counties Pratt County, KS, Stafford County, KS

The radar

The Wichita radar (KICT), 111 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:02 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
Apr 17, 7:00 PM CDT	Hail 0.75	Iuka, KS
Apr 17, 7:03 PM CDT	Hail 0.75	St John, KS
Apr 17, 7:20 PM CDT	Hail 0.88	Stafford, 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 00:00Z, 0.0 hours before the alert went out and 109 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 4097 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 12 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 25 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 43 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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The text

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

000 
WUUS53 KDDC 180000
SVRDDC
KSC151-185-180030-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS
659 PM CDT WED APR 17 2002

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN DODGE CITY HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  NORTHEASTERN PRATT COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL KANSAS
  EASTERN STAFFORD COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL KANSAS

* UNTIL 730 PM CDT

* AT 659 PM CDT...DODGE CITY DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE
  THUNDERSTORM 13 MILES WEST OF NEOLA...OR ABOUT 11 MILES NORTH OF
  PRATT...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 40 MPH.

* SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED
  NEOLA AT 710 PM CDT
  STAFFORD AT 715 PM CDT

THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM IS CAPABLE OF PRODUCING...
  HAIL THE SIZE OF NICKELS,
  WIND UP TO 60 MILES AN HOUR,

THIS WARNING REPLACES THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING PREVIOUSLY
ISSUED FOR PRATT AND STAFFORD COUNTIES.



LAT...LON 3789 9885 3776 9869 3777 9848 3805 9848

BURGERT

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Apr 17, 7:06 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Kiowa	24 min
Apr 17, 7:21 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Barber	39 min
Apr 17, 7:31 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Edwards	44 min
Apr 17, 7:33 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Pratt	42 min
Apr 17, 7:57 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Pawnee, Stafford	48 min
Apr 17, 8:00 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Barber	30 min
Apr 17, 8:12 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Pratt	18 min
Apr 17, 8:31 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Stafford	29 min
Apr 17, 8:56 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Pawnee	49 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.