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Tornado Warning 7, NWS Dodge City, KS
NWS Dodge City, KS issued this tornado warning at May 7, 2002, 6:32 PM CDT for Edwards County, Ford County, Kansas. It was in force for 43 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 7, 2002, 6:32 PM CDT (23:32 UTC)
- Expired
- May 7, 2002, 7:15 PM CDT
- In force
- 43 min
- Issued by
- NWS Dodge City, KS
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
Counties Edwards County, KS, Ford County, KS
The radar
The Dodge City radar (KDDC), 36 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:35 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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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 7, 4:00 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 12:00Z, 11.5 hours before the alert went out and 29 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
- 1217 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -347 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1311 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 42 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 106 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 118 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.3
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WFUS53 KDDC 072332 TORDDC KSC047-057-080015- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS 631 PM CDT TUE MAY 7 2002 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN DODGE CITY HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... SOUTHWESTERN EDWARDS COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL KANSAS NORTHEASTERN FORD COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST KANSAS * UNTIL 715 PM CDT * AT 631 PM CDT DODGE CITY DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED AND SPOTTERS REPORTED A TORNADO 5 MILES SOUTHEAST OF WINDTHORST...THE TORNADO WAS MOVING EAST AT 5 MPH. * SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED RURAL SOUTHWESTERN EDWARDS COUNTY THROUGH 645 PM CDT RURAL NORTHEASTERN FORD COUNTY THROUGH 645 PM CDT LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING THUNDERSTORM WINDS ARE ALSO EXPECTED WITH THIS STORM. LAT...LON 3774 9967 3774 9947 3784 9943 3788 9959 & 16
The office that day
Everything else NWS Dodge City, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 7, 4:30 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Edwards, Ford, Kiowa | 45 min |
| May 7, 4:41 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Edwards, Pawnee | 49 min |
| May 7, 5:02 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Hodgeman | 43 min |
| May 7, 5:16 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Edwards, Ford | 44 min |
| May 7, 5:44 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Edwards, Ford, Hodgeman, Pawnee | 46 min |
| May 7, 5:53 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DDC | Edwards, Ford | 37 min |
| May 7, 6:15 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DDC | Kiowa | 45 min |
| May 7, 6:56 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DDC | Clark, Ford | 34 min |
| May 7, 6:56 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DDC | Kiowa | 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.