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Tornado Warning 22, NWS Dodge City, KS

May 11, 2002Barber County, Comanche County, Kansas

NWS Dodge City, KS issued this tornado warning at May 11, 2002, 8:14 PM CDT for Barber County, Comanche County, Kansas. It was in force for 46 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued: May 11, 2002, 8:14 PM CDT (01:14 UTC)
Expired: May 11, 2002, 9:00 PM CDT
In force: 46 min
Issued by: NWS Dodge City, KS
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

Counties Barber County, KS, Comanche County, KS

The radar

The Vance AFB radar (KVNX), 91 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:13 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.

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, 8:00 PM CDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	5 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 00:00Z, 1.2 hours before the alert went out and 106 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL: 1697 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 74 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 227 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 503 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: -0.3

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The text

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

000 
WFUS53 KDDC 120114
TORDDC
KSC007-033-120200-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS
814 PM CDT SAT MAY 11 2002

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN DODGE CITY HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  SOUTHWESTERN BARBER COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL KANSAS
  SOUTHEASTERN COMANCHE COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL KANSAS

* UNTIL 900 PM CDT

* AT 814 PM CDT DODGE CITY DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A RAPIDLY ROTATING
  THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO 10 MILES WEST OF
  AETNA...OR ABOUT 14 MILES SOUTHEAST OF COLDWATER...MOVING EAST AT
  25 MPH.

* SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED
  AETNA AT 825 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.

LAT...LON 3714 9930 3702 9927 3702 9867 3721 9869

16

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 11, 7:24 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Comanche	51 min
May 11, 7:52 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Clark	53 min
May 11, 7:53 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Meade	52 min
May 11, 7:58 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Barber, Pratt	47 min
May 11, 8:11 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Comanche	49 min
May 11, 8:28 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Meade	32 min
May 11, 8:43 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Meade, Seward	47 min
May 11, 8:44 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Barber, Pratt	46 min
May 11, 8:47 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Clark	43 min
May 11, 8:55 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Barber, Comanche	65 min
May 11, 9:31 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Meade	44 min
May 11, 9:43 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Kiowa	47 min
May 11, 10:07 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Clark	38 min
May 11, 10:53 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Barber	37 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.