Alert archive / Kansas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2002
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 87, NWS Dodge City, KS
NWS Dodge City, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 15, 2002, 7:55 PM CDT for Ford County, Kansas. It was in force for 50 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 15, 2002, 7:55 PM CDT (00:55 UTC)
- Expired
- May 15, 2002, 8:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 50 min
- Issued by
- NWS Dodge City, KS
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Ford County, KS
The radar
The Dodge City radar (KDDC), 15 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:58 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 15, 8:00 PM CDT | Hail 1 | Bloom, 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 nearest sounding before it
Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 00:00Z, 0.9 hours before the alert went out and 17 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
- 22 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -262 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 2323 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 50 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 496 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 576 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WUUS53 KDDC 160055 SVRDDC KSC057-160145- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS 755 PM CDT WED MAY 15 2002 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN DODGE CITY HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... FORD COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST KANSAS * UNTIL 845 PM CDT * AT 755 PM CDT...DODGE CITY DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 11 MILES SOUTHWEST OF FT DODGE...OR ABOUT 11 MILES NORTH OF MINNEOLA...MOVING EAST AT 20 MPH. * SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED FT DODGE AT 805 PM CDT WRIGHT AT 810 PM CDT KINGSDOWN AT 815 PM CDT FORD AT 825 PM CDT BUCKLIN AT 835 PM CDT THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM IS CAPABLE OF PRODUCING... HAIL THE SIZE OF NICKELS, VERY HEAVY RAINFALL WHICH MAY CAUSE LOCALIZED FLOODING, STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS. HEAVY RAINS FLOOD ROADS QUICKLY SO DO NOT DRIVE INTO AREAS WHERE WATER COVERS THE ROAD. LAT...LON 3763 10020 3749 10020 3749 9960 3790 9972 BURGERT
The office that day
Everything else NWS Dodge City, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 15, 8:46 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Edwards, Ford, Kiowa | 44 min |
| May 15, 9:16 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Ellis, Trego | 59 min |
| May 15, 9:20 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Edwards, Kiowa, Pratt, Stafford | 55 min |
| May 15, 10:19 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Pratt | 41 min |
| May 15, 10:32 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Rush | 43 min |
| May 15, 11:01 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Pratt | 14 min |
| May 15, 11:13 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Rush | 47 min |
| May 15, 11:21 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Ellis | 39 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.