Alert archive / Kansas / Tornado Warnings in 2002
Tornado Warning 11, NWS Dodge City, KS
NWS Dodge City, KS issued this tornado warning at May 7, 2002, 7:45 PM CDT for Kiowa County, Kansas. It was in force for 45 min. 2 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, 7:45 PM CDT (00:45 UTC)
- Expired
- May 7, 2002, 8:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 45 min
- Issued by
- NWS Dodge City, KS
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Kiowa County, KS
The radar
The Dodge City radar (KDDC), 65 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:46 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, 8:05 PM CDT | Hail 1 | Haviland, KS | |
| May 7, 8:05 PM CDT | Thunderstorm Wind | Haviland, KS | A tractor was blown upside down onto a road. |
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 7, 4:00 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 00:00Z, 0.8 hours before the alert went out and 59 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 080045 TORDDC KSC097-080130- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS 744 PM CDT TUE MAY 7 2002 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN DODGE CITY HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... EASTERN KIOWA COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL KANSAS * UNTIL 830 PM CDT * AT 744 PM CDT DODGE CITY DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A RAPIDLY ROTATING THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO 5 MILES NORTH OF HAVILAND...MOVING EAST AT 15 MPH. * SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED HAVILAND AT 755 PM WELLSFORD AT 755 PM CDT LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING THUNDERSTORM WINDS ARE ALSO EXPECTED WITH THIS STORM. LAT...LON 3772 9942 3741 9943 3740 9903 3770 9902 16
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, 7:29 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DDC | Clark, Ford | 31 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.