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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 49, NWS Goodland, KS

June 15, 2002Wichita County, Kansas

NWS Goodland, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 15, 2002, 2:29 PM CDT for Wichita County, Kansas. It was in force for 46 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: Jun 15, 2002, 2:29 PM CDT (19:29 UTC)
Expired: Jun 15, 2002, 3:15 PM CDT
In force: 46 min
Issued by: NWS Goodland, KS
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Wichita County, KS

The radar

The Goodland radar (KGLD), 114 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:28 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
Jun 15, 2:37 PM CDT	Hail 1	Marienthal, 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 15, 12:45 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	5 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 12:00Z, 7.5 hours before the alert went out and 136 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: 244 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -290 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1401 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 49 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 184 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 194 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 2.7

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The text

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

000 
WUUS53 KGLD 151929
SVRGLD
KSC203-152015-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS
227 PM CDT SAT JUN 15 2002

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN GOODLAND HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  SOUTHEASTERN WICHITA COUNTY IN WEST CENTRAL KANSAS

* UNTIL 315 PM CDT

* AT 227 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 13 MILES SOUTH OF MARIENTHAL...OR ABOUT 14
  MILES SOUTHWEST OF MODOC...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 25 MPH.

AT 148 PM MDT THIS STORM PRODUCED HAIL THE SIZE OF PING PONG BALLS 5 
MILES NORTHEAST OF LEOTI.

HAIL UP TO ONE INCH IN DIAMETER AND STRONG AND DAMAGING WINDS OF 60
MPH OR MORE CAN BE EXPECTED WITH THIS STORM.

PLEASE REPORT SEVERE WEATHER TO THE NEAREST LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCY.
THEY WILL RELAY YOUR REPORT TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE OFFICE IN
GOODLAND.

&&

LAT...LON 3854 10113 3845 10132 3829 10136 3827 10113

LOCKHART

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 15, 5:05 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Decatur	40 min
Jun 15, 6:01 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Norton	44 min
Jun 15, 6:17 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Graham	28 min
Jun 15, 7:02 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Graham	43 min
Jun 15, 1:13 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Norton	62 min
Jun 15, 1:26 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Wichita	64 min
Jun 15, 1:44 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Decatur, Rawlins	61 min
Jun 15, 2:37 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Graham	53 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Kansas, 2002 Every severe thunderstorm warning in 2002

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.