Alert archive / Kansas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2002
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 83, NWS Dodge City, KS
NWS Dodge City, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 11, 2002, 9:43 PM CDT for Kiowa County, Kansas. It was in force for 47 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 11, 2002, 9:43 PM CDT (02:43 UTC)
- Expired
- May 11, 2002, 10:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 47 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), 63 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 02:44 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.
The nearest sounding before it
Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 00:00Z, 2.7 hours before the alert went out and 58 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
- 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
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WUUS53 KDDC 120243 SVRDDC KSC097-120330- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS 943 PM CDT SAT MAY 11 2002 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN DODGE CITY HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... SOUTHERN KIOWA COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL KANSAS * UNTIL 1030 PM CDT * AT 943 PM CDT...DODGE CITY DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 8 MILES SOUTH OF GREENSBURG...MOVING EAST AT 25 MPH. * SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED HAVILAND AT 1010 PM CDT WELLSFORD AT 1015 PM CDT THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM IS CAPABLE OF PRODUCING... HAIL THE SIZE OF NICKELS, WIND UP TO 60 MILES AN HOUR, VERY FREQUENT AND DEADLY CLOUD-TO-GROUND LIGHTNING, STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS. AVOID USING THE TELEPHONE OR OTHER ELECTRICAL EQUIPMENT WHILE LIGHTNING IS IN THE AREA. LAT...LON 3756 9955 3738 9955 3738 9901 3765 9902 JOHNSON
The office that day
Everything else NWS Dodge City, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 11, 7:24 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Comanche | 51 min |
| May 11, 7:52 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Clark | 53 min |
| May 11, 7:53 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Meade | 52 min |
| May 11, 7:58 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Barber, Pratt | 47 min |
| May 11, 8:11 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Comanche | 49 min |
| May 11, 8:14 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DDC | Barber, Comanche | 46 min |
| May 11, 8:28 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Meade | 32 min |
| May 11, 8:43 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Meade, Seward | 47 min |
| May 11, 8:44 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Barber, Pratt | 46 min |
| May 11, 8:47 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Clark | 43 min |
| May 11, 8:55 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Barber, Comanche | 65 min |
| May 11, 9:31 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Meade | 44 min |
| May 11, 10:07 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Clark | 38 min |
| May 11, 10:53 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Barber | 37 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.