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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 91, NWS Dodge City, KS

May 15, 2002Pratt County, Kansas

NWS Dodge City, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 15, 2002, 10:19 PM CDT for Pratt County, Kansas. It was in force for 41 min. 3 reports 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, 10:19 PM CDT (03:19 UTC)
Expired: May 15, 2002, 11:00 PM CDT
In force: 41 min
Issued by: NWS Dodge City, KS
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Pratt County, KS

The radar

The Dodge City radar (KDDC), 104 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 03:23 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
May 15, 10:48 PM CDT	Hail 1.5	Pratt Muni Arpt, KS
May 15, 11:00 PM CDT	Hail 1	Preston, KS
May 15, 11:00 PM CDT	Hail 1.25	Pratt, 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 15, 9:30 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	5 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 00:00Z, 3.3 hours before the alert went out and 98 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

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

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

000 
WUUS53 KDDC 160319
SVRDDC
KSC151-160400-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS
1019 PM CDT WED MAY 15 2002

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN DODGE CITY HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  NORTHERN PRATT COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL KANSAS

* UNTIL 1100 PM CDT

* AT 1019 PM CDT...3 MILES WEST OF PRATT...MOVING EAST AT 20 MPH.

* SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED
  PRESTON AT 1045 PM CDT
  CAIRO AT 1050 PM CDT

THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM IS CAPABLE OF PRODUCING...
  HAIL THE SIZE OF QUARTERS,
  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. HEAVY RAINS FLOOD ROADS QUICKLY SO DO NOT DRIVE INTO AREAS
WHERE WATER COVERS THE ROAD.

LAT...LON 3781 9900 3757 9899 3756 9848 3781 9849

$$

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, 9:16 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, 10:32 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.