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Tornado Warning 14, NWS Dodge City, KS

May 7, 2002Pratt County, Kansas

NWS Dodge City, KS issued this tornado warning at May 7, 2002, 8:42 PM CDT for Pratt County, Kansas. It was in force for 48 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 7, 2002, 8:42 PM CDT (01:42 UTC)
Expired
May 7, 2002, 9:30 PM CDT
In force
48 min
Issued by
NWS Dodge City, KS
Area
Counties, with a storm outline in the text
Emergency
Tornado emergency

County Pratt County, KS

The radar

The Dodge City radar (KDDC), 110 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:41 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 7, 9:20 PM CDTHail 4.5Pratt, 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 watch it was issued in

The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.

IssuedProductOfficeLasted
May 7, 4:00 PM CDTTornado WatchSPC6 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 00:00Z, 1.7 hours before the alert went out and 104 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 2002-05-08Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 512 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 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 2002-05-08The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 351 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 km3 km6 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
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

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The text

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

000 
WFUS53 KDDC 080142
TORDDC
KSC151-080230-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS
842 PM CDT TUE MAY 7 2002

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN DODGE CITY HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  PRATT COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL KANSAS

* UNTIL 930 PM CDT

* AT 842 PM CDT DODGE CITY DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED AND SPOTTERS
  REPORTED A TORNADO OVER PRATT. THE TORNADO WAS MOVING SOUTHEAST AT
  20 MPH.

* SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED
  PRATT NOW
  CAIRO AT 900 PM CDT

THIS IS A DANGEROUS STORM. MOVE INTO YOUR TORNADO SHELTER NOW IF NO
UNDERGROUND SHELTER IS AVAILABLE...MOVE INTO AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE
LOWEST FLOOR OF A STURDY STRUCTURE. STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS. ABANDON
MOBILE HOMES...WHICH OFFER NO PROTECTION FROM A TORNADO.

LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING THUNDERSTORM WINDS ARE ALSO EXPECTED WITH
THIS STORM.

LAT...LON 3779 9888 3750 9886 3749 9849 3780 9849

&

16

The office that day

Everything else NWS Dodge City, KS issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
May 7, 7:16 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCEdwards44 min
May 7, 7:17 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningDDCEdwards, Ford4 hr
May 7, 7:29 PM CDTTornado WarningDDCClark, Ford31 min
May 7, 7:45 PM CDTTornado WarningDDCKiowa45 min
May 7, 7:55 PM CDTTornado WarningDDCPratt50 min
May 7, 7:57 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCFord, Kiowa48 min
May 7, 8:07 PM CDTTornado WarningDDCFord, Kiowa38 min
May 7, 8:22 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCKiowa53 min
May 7, 8:26 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCFord, Kiowa49 min
May 7, 8:29 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCClark31 min
May 7, 8:31 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCClark29 min
May 7, 8:44 PM CDTTornado WarningDDCClark, Kiowa31 min
May 7, 9:01 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCStafford44 min
May 7, 9:16 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCClark, Ford, Kiowa44 min
May 7, 9:30 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCPratt45 min
May 7, 9:56 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCPratt64 min
May 7, 10:01 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCKiowa44 min
May 7, 10:30 PM CDTTornado WarningDDCKiowa30 min
May 7, 11:00 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCBarber, Kiowa, Pratt75 min

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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.