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Tornado Warning 4, NWS Dodge City, KS
NWS Dodge City, KS issued this tornado warning at May 5, 2002, 4:43 PM CDT for Ness County, Trego County, Kansas. It was in force for 47 min. 2 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
- May 5, 2002, 4:43 PM CDT (21:43 UTC)
- Expired
- May 5, 2002, 5:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 47 min
- Issued by
- NWS Dodge City, KS
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
Counties Ness County, KS, Trego County, KS
The radar
The Dodge City radar (KDDC), 107 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:46 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 5, 4:55 PM CDT | Hail 1.75 | Cedar Bluff Res, KS | |
| May 5, 5:00 PM CDT | Hail 0.75 | Brownell, 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 5, 2:45 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 12:00Z, 9.7 hours before the alert went out and 105 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
- 282 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -438 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1423 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 40 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 68 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 77 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WFUS53 KDDC 052143 TORDDC KSC135-195-052230- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS 443 PM CDT SUN MAY 5 2002 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN DODGE CITY HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... NORTHEASTERN NESS COUNTY IN WEST CENTRAL KANSAS SOUTHEASTERN TREGO COUNTY IN WEST CENTRAL KANSAS * UNTIL 530 PM CDT * AT 443 PM CDT DODGE CITY DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A DEVELOPING TORNADO 5 MILES WEST OF BROWNELL...OR ABOUT 5 MILES EAST OF RANSOM. THIS DANGEROUS STORM WAS MOVING EAST AT 30 MPH. * SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED CEDAR BLUFF AT 450 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 3875 9994 3864 9984 3862 9962 3880 9961 KRUSE
The office that day
Everything else NWS Dodge City, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 4, 7:09 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Barber, Pratt | 66 min |
| May 4, 7:32 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DDC | Barber | 43 min |
| May 4, 8:10 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DDC | Barber | 50 min |
| May 5, 3:25 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Lane | 65 min |
| May 5, 3:32 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Ellis | 43 min |
| May 5, 3:36 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Trego | 54 min |
| May 5, 3:49 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Ness | 56 min |
| May 5, 4:14 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Ellis | 46 min |
| May 5, 4:27 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Trego | 63 min |
| May 5, 4:33 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DDC | Ellis, Trego | 12 min |
| May 5, 5:02 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Ellis | 58 min |
| May 5, 5:25 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Gray | 35 min |
| May 5, 5:44 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Hodgeman | 61 min |
| May 5, 5:59 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Ellis | 46 min |
| May 5, 6:41 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Hodgeman | 49 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.