Alert archive / Kansas / Tornado Warnings in 2002
Tornado Warning 7, NWS Kansas City, MO
NWS Kansas City, MO issued this tornado warning at May 8, 2002, 6:31 PM CDT for Leavenworth County, Kansas. It was in force for 44 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
- May 8, 2002, 6:31 PM CDT (23:31 UTC)
- Expired
- May 8, 2002, 7:15 PM CDT
- In force
- 44 min
- Issued by
- NWS Kansas City, MO
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Leavenworth County, KS
The radar
The Pleasant Hill radar (KEAX), 82 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:34 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 8, 6:43 PM CDT | Tornado F0 | Lansing, KS | Brief tornado touchdown which cause some light damage to a farmstead. |
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 8, 5:30 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Topeka, KS (KTOP), launched 12:00Z, 11.5 hours before the alert went out and 52 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
- 50 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -814 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1189 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 56 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 522 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 829 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.6
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000
WFUS53 KEAX 082333
TORMCI
MOC175-090000-
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE KANSAS CITY/PLEASANT HILL MO
630 PM CDT WED MAY 8 2002
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PLEASANT HILL HAS ISSUED A
* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
EASTERN RANDOLPH COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL MISSOURI
* UNTIL 700 PM CDT
* AT 629 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO. THIS DANGEROUS
STORM WAS LOCATED NEAR MOBERLY...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 45 MPH. LARGE
HAIL AND DESTRUCTIVE THUNDERSTORM WINDS ARE ALSO LIKELY WITH THIS
STORM.
* THIS TORNADIC STORM IS EXPECTED TO BE NEAR...
CAIRO BY 635 PM CDT.
WHEN A TORNADO WARNING IS ISSUED BASED ON DOPPLER RADAR...IT MEANS
THAT STRONG ROTATION HAS BEEN DETECTED IN THE STORM. A TORNADO MAY
ALREADY BE ON THE GROUND...OR IS EXPECTED TO DEVELOP SHORTLY. IF YOU
ARE IN THE PATH OF THIS DANGEROUS STORM...MOVE INDOORS AND TO THE
LOWEST LEVEL OF THE BUILDING. STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS. IF DRIVING...DO
NOT SEEK SHELTER UNDER A HIGHWAY OVERPASS.
LAT...LON 3960 9232 3940 9232 3936 9250 3942 9255
3952 9256
PBThe office that day
Everything else NWS Kansas City, MO issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 8, 6:19 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Leavenworth | 56 min |
| May 8, 6:35 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Johnson, Miami | 55 min |
| May 8, 6:43 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Wyandotte | 62 min |
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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.