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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 93, NWS Dodge City, KS

May 15, 2002Pratt County, Kansas

NWS Dodge City, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 15, 2002, 11:01 PM CDT for Pratt County, Kansas. It was in force for 14 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, 11:01 PM CDT (04:01 UTC)
Expired: May 15, 2002, 11:15 PM CDT
In force: 14 min
Issued by: NWS Dodge City, KS
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Pratt County, KS

The radar

The Wichita radar (KICT), 99 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 04:03 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.

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, 4.0 hours before the alert went out and 117 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 160401
SVRDDC
KSC151-160415-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS
1100 PM CDT WED MAY 15 2002

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN DODGE CITY HAS ISSUED A

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

* UNTIL 1115 PM CDT

* AT 1100 PM CDT...DODGE CITY DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE
  THUNDERSTORM 4 MILES SOUTHEAST OF PRESTON...OR ABOUT 13 MILES EAST
  OF PRATT...MOVING EAST AT 10 MPH.

* SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED
  RURAL PRATT COUNTY AT 1110 PM CDT

THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM IS CAPABLE OF PRODUCING...
  DAMAGING HAIL THE SIZE OF GOLFBALLS,
  WIND UP TO 60 MILES AN HOUR,
  VERY FREQUENT AND DEADLY CLOUD-TO-GROUND LIGHTNING,

THIS WARNING REPLACES THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING PREVIOUSLY
ISSUED.

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 3779 9863 3758 9863 3758 9847 3781 9847

$$

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, 10:19 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Pratt	41 min
May 15, 10:32 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Rush	43 min
May 15, 11:13 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.