Alert archive / Kansas / Tornado Warnings in 2002
Tornado Warning 10, NWS Dodge City, KS
NWS Dodge City, KS issued this tornado warning at May 7, 2002, 7:29 PM CDT for Clark County, Ford County, Kansas. It was in force for 31 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 7, 2002, 7:29 PM CDT (00:29 UTC)
- Expired
- May 7, 2002, 8:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 31 min
- Issued by
- NWS Dodge City, KS
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
Counties Clark County, KS, Ford County, KS
The radar
The Dodge City radar (KDDC), 34 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:31 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 | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 7, 7:35 PM CDT | Hail 2.5 | Bucklin, KS | |
| May 7, 7:40 PM CDT | Hail 2.75 | Bucklin, KS | |
| May 7, 7:45 PM CDT | Hail 1.75 | Bucklin, 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, 0.5 hours before the alert went out and 32 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 512 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -210 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1278 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 60 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 351 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 498 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 2.9
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WFUS53 KDDC 080029 TORDDC KSC025-057-080100- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS 728 PM CDT TUE MAY 7 2002 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN DODGE CITY HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... NORTHEASTERN CLARK COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST KANSAS SOUTHEASTERN FORD COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST KANSAS * UNTIL 800 PM CDT * AT 728 PM CDT DODGE CITY DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED AND SPOTTERS REPORTED A TORNADO 3 MILES SOUTHEAST OF KINGSDOWN...OR ABOUT 6 MILES SOUTHWEST OF BUCKLIN. THE TORNADO WAS MOVING EAST AT 15 MPH. * SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED BUCKLIN AT 745 PM CDT 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 3744 9989 3743 9957 3764 9956 3763 9979 & REITER
The office that day
Everything else NWS Dodge City, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 7, 7:16 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Edwards | 44 min |
| May 7, 7:17 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | DDC | Edwards, Ford | 4 hr |
| May 7, 7:45 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DDC | Kiowa | 45 min |
| May 7, 7:55 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DDC | Pratt | 50 min |
| May 7, 7:57 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Ford, Kiowa | 48 min |
| May 7, 8:07 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DDC | Ford, Kiowa | 38 min |
| May 7, 8:22 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Kiowa | 53 min |
| May 7, 8:26 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Ford, Kiowa | 49 min |
| May 7, 8:29 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Clark | 31 min |
| May 7, 8:31 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Clark | 29 min |
| May 7, 8:42 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DDC | Pratt | 48 min |
| May 7, 8:44 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DDC | Clark, Kiowa | 31 min |
| May 7, 9:01 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Stafford | 44 min |
| May 7, 9:16 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Clark, Ford, Kiowa | 44 min |
| May 7, 9:30 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Pratt | 45 min |
| May 7, 9:56 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Pratt | 64 min |
| May 7, 10:01 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Kiowa | 44 min |
| May 7, 10:30 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DDC | Kiowa | 30 min |
| May 7, 11:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Barber, Kiowa, Pratt | 75 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.