Alert archive / Kansas / Tornado Warnings in 2002
Tornado Warning 16, NWS Dodge City, KS
NWS Dodge City, KS issued this tornado warning at May 7, 2002, 10:30 PM CDT for Kiowa County, Kansas. It was in force for 30 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, 10:30 PM CDT (03:30 UTC)
- Expired
- May 7, 2002, 11:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 30 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), 63 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 03:31 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, 11:10 PM CDT | Hail 0.75 | Wellsford, 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.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 7, 10:00 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 4 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 00:00Z, 3.5 hours before the alert went out and 58 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 080330 TORDDC KSC097-080400- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS 1029 PM CDT TUE MAY 7 2002 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN DODGE CITY HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... KIOWA COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL KANSAS * UNTIL 1100 PM CDT * AT 1029 PM CDT DODGE CITY DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A RAPIDLY ROTATING THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO 6 MILES WEST OF BELVEDERE...OR ABOUT 12 MILES SOUTHEAST OF GREENSBURG...MOVING EAST AT 20 MPH. * SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED BELVEDERE AT 1040 PM CDT THIS WARNING REPLACES THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING PREVIOUSLY ISSUED FOR KIOWA COUNTY. LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING THUNDERSTORM WINDS ARE ALSO EXPECTED WITH THIS STORM. LAT...LON 3772 9944 3739 9949 3740 9902 3771 9902 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, 7:29 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DDC | Clark, Ford | 31 min |
| 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, 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.