Alert archive / Kansas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2002
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 182, NWS Kansas City, MO
NWS Kansas City, MO issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 18, 2002, 4:15 PM CDT for Miami County, Kansas. It was in force for 30 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
- Jul 18, 2002, 4:15 PM CDT (21:15 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 18, 2002, 4:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 30 min
- Issued by
- NWS Kansas City, MO
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Miami County, KS
The radar
The Pleasant Hill radar (KEAX), 54 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:18 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 18, 4:25 PM CDT | Thunderstorm Wind 52 E | Somerset, KS | |
| Jul 18, 4:35 PM CDT | Hail 0.75 | Somerset, 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 nearest sounding before it
Topeka, KS (KTOP), launched 12:00Z, 9.3 hours before the alert went out and 79 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
- 2787 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -51 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 883 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 20 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 22 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 40 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 1.2
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
125 WUUS53 KEAX 182115 SVRMCI KSC121-182145- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE KANSAS CITY/PLEASANT HILL MO 415 PM CDT THU JUL 18 2002 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PLEASANT HILL HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... NORTHERN MIAMI COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL KANSAS * UNTIL 445 PM CDT * AT 408 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING DIME SIZE HAIL...AND DAMAGING WINDS IN EXCESS OF 60 MPH. THIS STORM WAS LOCATED NEAR SOMERSET...OR NEAR PAOLA. THE THUNDERSTORMS WERE NEARLY STATIONARY. * THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR... SOMERSET BY 425 PM CDT LOUISBURG BY 445 PM CDT THIS IS A DANGEROUS STORM. IF YOU ARE IN ITS PATH...PREPARE IMMEDIATELY FOR DAMAGING WINDS...DESTRUCTIVE HAIL...AND DEADLY CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING. PEOPLE OUTSIDE SHOULD MOVE TO A SHELTER... PREFERABLY INSIDE A STRONG BUILDING BUT AWAY FROM WINDOWS. LAT...LON 3872 9497 3853 9498 3853 9465 3873 9466 KOCH
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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.