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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 96, NWS Dodge City, KS

May 19, 2002Morton County, Kansas

NWS Dodge City, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 19, 2002, 8:12 PM CDT for Morton County, Kansas. It was in force for 48 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 19, 2002, 8:12 PM CDT (01:12 UTC)
Expired
May 19, 2002, 9:00 PM CDT
In force
48 min
Issued by
NWS Dodge City, KS
Area
Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Morton County, KS

The radar

The Dodge City radar (KDDC), 173 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:11 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, 1.2 hours before the alert went out and 179 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Dodge City, at 00:00Z on 2002-05-20Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Dodge City, at 00:00Z on 2002-05-20The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 54 square meters per square second.1939Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
1964 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
43 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
54 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
464 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 200112
SVRDDC
KSC129-200200-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS
812 PM CDT SUN MAY 19 2002

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN DODGE CITY HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  NORTHERN MORTON COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST KANSAS

* UNTIL 900 PM CDT

* AT 812 PM CDT...DODGE CITY DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE
  THUNDERSTORM 15 MILES WEST OF RICHFIELD...OR ABOUT 17 MILES
  NORTHWEST OF ELKHART...MOVING EAST AT 20 MPH.

* SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED
  RICHFIELD AT 840 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. AVOID USING THE TELEPHONE OR OTHER ELECTRICAL EQUIPMENT
WHILE LIGHTNING IS IN THE AREA.

LAT...LON 3738 10203 3716 10204 3722 10156 3739 10157

JOHNSON

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Kansas, 2002Every 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.