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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 89, NWS Dodge City, KS

May 15, 2002Ellis County, Trego County, Kansas

NWS Dodge City, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 15, 2002, 9:16 PM CDT for Ellis County, Trego County, Kansas. It was in force for 59 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 15, 2002, 9:16 PM CDT (02:16 UTC)
Expired: May 15, 2002, 10:15 PM CDT
In force: 59 min
Issued by: NWS Dodge City, KS
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

Counties Ellis County, KS, Trego County, KS

The radar

The Dodge City radar (KDDC), 136 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 02:18 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, 2.3 hours before the alert went out and 134 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: 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

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The text

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

000 
WUUS53 KDDC 160216
SVRDDC
KSC051-195-160315-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS
916 PM CDT WED MAY 15 2002

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN DODGE CITY HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  ELLIS COUNTY IN CENTRAL KANSAS
  EASTERN TREGO COUNTY IN WEST CENTRAL KANSAS

* UNTIL 1015 PM CDT

* AT 916 PM CDT...DODGE CITY DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE
  THUNDERSTORM 4 MILES EAST OF TREGO CENTER...OR ABOUT 10 MILES SOUTH
  OF WAKEENEY...MOVING EAST AT 35 MPH.

* SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED,
  RIGA AT 930 PM CDT,
  ELLIS AT 935 PM CDT,
  YOCEMENTO AT 945 PM CDT,
  ANTONINO AT 950 PM CDT,
  HAYS AT 955 PM CDT,
  TOULON AT 1000 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,

FOR YOUR SAFETY SEEK A STURDY SHELTER IMMEDIATELY STAY AWAY FROM
WINDOWS.

LAT...LON 3909 9989 3872 9996 3871 9906 3912 9905

JOHNSON

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 15, 7:55 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Ford	50 min
May 15, 8:46 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Edwards, Ford, Kiowa	44 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

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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.