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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 85, NWS Dodge City, KS

May 11, 2002Barber County, Kansas

NWS Dodge City, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 11, 2002, 10:53 PM CDT for Barber County, Kansas. It was in force for 37 min. 1 report 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, 10:53 PM CDT (03:53 UTC)
Expired: May 11, 2002, 11:30 PM CDT
In force: 37 min
Issued by: NWS Dodge City, KS
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Barber County, KS

The radar

The Vance AFB radar (KVNX), 77 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 03:55 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	Remark
May 11, 11:03 PM CDT	Hail 0.75	Medicine Lodge, 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
May 11, 8:00 PM CDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	5 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 00:00Z, 3.9 hours before the alert went out and 124 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: 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 120353
SVRDDC
KSC007-120430-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS
1052 PM CDT SAT MAY 11 2002

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN DODGE CITY HAS ISSUED A

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

* UNTIL 1130 PM CDT

* AT 1052 PM CDT...DODGE CITY DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE
  THUNDERSTORM 5 MILES SOUTHEAST OF LAKE CITY...OR ABOUT 9 MILES WEST
  OF MEDICINE LODGE...MOVING EAST AT 30 MPH.

* SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED
  MEDICINE LODGE AT 1105 PM CDT
  SHARON AT 1115 PM CDT

THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM IS CAPABLE OF PRODUCING...
  HAIL THE SIZE OF NICKELS,
  WIND UP TO 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 3745 9886 3712 9889 3702 9839 3736 9837
          3736 9848 3745 9849

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, 10:07 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Clark	38 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Kansas, 2002 Every 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.