Alert archive / Kansas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2002
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 84, NWS Dodge City, KS
NWS Dodge City, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 11, 2002, 10:07 PM CDT for Clark County, Kansas. It was in force for 38 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, 10:07 PM CDT (03:07 UTC)
- Expired
- May 11, 2002, 10:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 38 min
- Issued by
- NWS Dodge City, KS
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Clark County, KS
The radar
The Dodge City radar (KDDC), 56 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 03:08 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, 3.1 hours before the alert went out and 57 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 120307 SVRDDC KSC025-120345- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS 1007 PM CDT SAT MAY 11 2002 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN DODGE CITY HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... CLARK COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST KANSAS * UNTIL 1045 PM CDT * AT 1007 PM CDT...DODGE CITY DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 8 MILES NORTHWEST OF ENGLEWOOD...OR ABOUT 15 MILES WEST OF ASHLAND...MOVING EAST AT 35 MPH. * SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED ACRES AT 1015 PM CDT CLARK STATE LAKE AT 1025 PM CDT ASHLAND AT 1030 PM CDT SITKA AT 1040 PM CDT THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM IS CAPABLE OF PRODUCING... HAIL THE SIZE OF NICKELS, A TORNADO WATCH IS ALSO IN EFFECT. REMEMBER...SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS CAN PRODUCE TORNADOES WITH LITTLE OR NO ADVANCE WARNING. LAT...LON 3740 10008 3703 10003 3702 9956 3745 9958 REITER
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, 9:43 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Kiowa | 47 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.