Alert archive / Kansas / Tornado Warnings in 2002
Tornado Warning 28, NWS Dodge City, KS
NWS Dodge City, KS issued this tornado warning at Aug 12, 2002, 8:47 PM CDT for Clark County, Kansas. It was in force for 28 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
- Aug 12, 2002, 8:47 PM CDT (01:47 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 12, 2002, 9:15 PM CDT
- In force
- 28 min
- Issued by
- NWS Dodge City, KS
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Clark County, KS
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 12, 9:07 PM CDT | Tornado F0 | Englewood, KS | A brief tornado lasted a little less than a minute but did not hit anything. |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 12, 3:30 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 7 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 00:00Z, 1.8 hours before the alert went out and 68 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
- 2080 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -70 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1516 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 46 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 158 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 339 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 1.3
- Supercell composite
- 23.8
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
551 WFUS53 KDDC 130147 TORDDC KSC025-130215- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS 847 PM CDT MON AUG 12 2002 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN DODGE CITY HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... SOUTHWESTERN CLARK COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST KANSAS * UNTIL 915 PM CDT * AT 847 PM CDT DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A RAPIDLY ROTATING THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO 7 MILES NORTH OF ENGLEWOOD...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 15 MPH. * SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED ACRES AT 905 PM CDT ENGLEWOOD AT 910 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 3726 9999 3725 10009 3701 10006 3702 9977 BURGERT
The office that day
Everything else NWS Dodge City, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 12, 7:03 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Ford | 57 min |
| Aug 12, 7:35 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Meade | 40 min |
| Aug 12, 7:45 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Gray | 30 min |
| Aug 12, 7:49 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Hodgeman | 56 min |
| Aug 12, 7:54 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DDC | Meade | 51 min |
| Aug 12, 8:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Clark | 60 min |
| Aug 12, 8:10 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | DDC | Gray | 3 hr |
| Aug 12, 8:15 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Meade | 60 min |
| Aug 12, 8:24 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Ford | 66 min |
| Aug 12, 8:44 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Meade | 61 min |
| Aug 12, 8:53 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Pawnee, Stafford | 67 min |
| Aug 12, 8:58 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Seward | 47 min |
| Aug 12, 11:14 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Trego | 61 min |
| Aug 13, 1:34 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Hamilton | 26 min |
| Aug 13, 1:54 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Kearny | 36 min |
| Aug 13, 2:12 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Hamilton | 33 min |
| Aug 13, 2:20 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Grant | 25 min |
| Aug 13, 2:34 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Finney | 41 min |
| Aug 13, 2:45 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Hamilton | 45 min |
| Aug 13, 2:46 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Grant | 44 min |
| Aug 13, 3:07 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Morton | 38 min |
| Aug 13, 3:13 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Finney | 32 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.