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Tornado Warning 24, NWS Dodge City, KS

June 10, 2002Clark County, Kansas

NWS Dodge City, KS issued this tornado warning at Jun 10, 2002, 7:27 PM CDT for Clark County, Kansas. It was in force for 48 min. 4 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: Jun 10, 2002, 7:27 PM CDT (00:27 UTC)
Expired: Jun 10, 2002, 8:15 PM CDT
In force: 48 min
Issued by: NWS Dodge City, KS
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Clark County, KS

The radar

The Dodge City radar (KDDC), 41 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:29 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
Jun 10, 7:33 PM CDT	Hail 1.75	Minneola, KS
Jun 10, 7:38 PM CDT	Hail 1.75	Minneola, KS
Jun 10, 7:47 PM CDT	Hail 2.75	Minneola, KS
Jun 10, 8:00 PM CDT	Hail 4.5	Minneola, 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
Jun 10, 3:30 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	6 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 00:00Z, 0.5 hours before the alert went out and 42 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: 2507 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -31 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1734 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 39 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 20 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 156 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.3
Supercell composite: 6.1

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The text

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

000 
WFUS53 KDDC 110027
TORDDC
KSC025-110115-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS
727 PM CDT MON JUN 10 2002

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN DODGE CITY HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  NORTHERN CLARK COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST KANSAS

* UNTIL 815 PM CDT

* AT 724 PM CDT DODGE CITY DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED AND SPOTTERS   
REPORTED A ROTATING THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO 2 
MILES SOUTHWEST OF MINNEOLA. THE THUNDERSTORM WAS MOVING EAST AT 
20 MPH.

* SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED
  CLARK STATE LAKE AT 755 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.

REPORT SEVERE WEATHER TO THE NEAREST LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCY. THEY
WILL RELAY YOUR REPORT TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORECAST
OFFICE IN DODGE CITY.

LAT...LON 3747 10008 3730 10007 3728 9964 3746 9966

GERARD

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 10, 7:29 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Ford	46 min
Jun 10, 7:39 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Kiowa, Pratt	51 min
Jun 10, 8:19 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Clark	41 min
Jun 10, 9:44 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Pratt	61 min
Jun 11, 6:00 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Hodgeman	45 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.