Alert archive / Kansas / Tornado Warnings in 2002
Tornado Warning 19, NWS Dodge City, KS
NWS Dodge City, KS issued this tornado warning at May 11, 2002, 6:06 PM CDT for Stafford County, Kansas. It was in force for 24 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 11, 2002, 6:06 PM CDT (23:06 UTC)
- Expired
- May 11, 2002, 6:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 24 min
- Issued by
- NWS Dodge City, KS
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Stafford County, KS
The radar
The Wichita radar (KICT), 116 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:08 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 11, 6:20 PM CDT | Thunderstorm Wind 61 E | Stafford, KS | Three to four inch diameter tree branches were broken. |
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 11, 2:30 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 12:00Z, 11.1 hours before the alert went out and 119 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
- 1296 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -195 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 719 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 46 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 494 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 564 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 3.5
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WFUS53 KDDC 112306 TORDDC KSC185-112330- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS 603 PM CDT SAT MAY 11 2002 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN DODGE CITY HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... NORTHEASTERN STAFFORD COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL KANSAS * UNTIL 630 PM CDT * AT 603 PM CDT SPOTTERS REPORTED A TORNADO 1 MILE WEST OF STAFFORD MOVING EAST AT 15 MPH. * SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED RURAL STAFFORD COUNTY AT 620 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. LAT...LON 3824 9872 3796 9870 3797 9848 3824 9849 & JOHNSON
The office that day
Everything else NWS Dodge City, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 11, 1:14 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Grant, Haskell | 46 min |
| May 11, 1:39 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Finney, Gray | 51 min |
| May 11, 3:44 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Gray, Meade | 46 min |
| May 11, 3:48 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Ford, Hodgeman | 42 min |
| May 11, 4:15 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Edwards, Pawnee | 45 min |
| May 11, 4:24 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DDC | Edwards, Pawnee | 36 min |
| May 11, 5:01 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DDC | Edwards, Pawnee | 29 min |
| May 11, 5:09 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Stafford | 51 min |
| May 11, 5:13 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Edwards | 47 min |
| May 11, 5:29 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Kiowa | 46 min |
| May 11, 5:50 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Clark, Meade | 55 min |
| May 11, 5:57 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Pratt, Stafford | 63 min |
| May 11, 6:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Stafford | 30 min |
| May 11, 6:05 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Clark, Meade | 40 min |
| May 11, 6:13 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DDC | Pratt | 32 min |
| May 11, 6:38 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Stafford | 37 min |
| May 11, 6:41 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Stafford | 34 min |
| May 11, 6:41 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Clark, Ford, Meade, Seward | 64 min |
| May 11, 6:47 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DDC | Pratt | 28 min |
| May 11, 6:55 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Edwards, Kiowa | 65 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.