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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 97, NWS Dodge City, KS

May 22, 2002Ellis County, Kansas

NWS Dodge City, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 22, 2002, 7:48 PM CDT for Ellis County, Kansas. It was in force for 57 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 22, 2002, 7:48 PM CDT (00:48 UTC)
Expired
May 22, 2002, 8:45 PM CDT
In force
57 min
Issued by
NWS Dodge City, KS
Area
Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Ellis County, KS

The radar

The Grand Island radar (KUEX), 156 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:49 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.

What was reported inside it

TimeReportWhereRemark
May 22, 7:50 PM CDTHail 0.75Hays, 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, 0.8 hours before the alert went out and 155 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 2002-05-23Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1775 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 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 2002-05-23The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 244 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 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
1775 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-26 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1943 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
65 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
244 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
449 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.3
Supercell composite
15.3

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The text

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

000 
WUUS53 KDDC 230048
SVRDDC
KSC051-230145-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS
746 PM CDT WED MAY 22 2002

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN DODGE CITY HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  ELLIS COUNTY IN CENTRAL KANSAS

* UNTIL 845 PM CDT

* AT 746 PM CDT...DODGE CITY DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE
  THUNDERSTORM OVER ELLIS COUNTY...OR ABOUT 11 MILES NORTHEAST OF
  ELLIS...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 25 MPH.

* SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED
  RURAL ELLIS COUNTY AT 800 PM CDT

THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM IS CAPABLE OF PRODUCING...
  HAIL THE SIZE OF QUARTERS,

REPORT SEVERE WEATHER TO THE NEAREST LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCY. THEY
WILL RELAY YOUR REPORT TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORECAST
OFFICE IN DODGE CITY.

LAT...LON 3912 9952 3901 9951 3908 9915 3909 9910
          3912 9916

FINCH

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.