Alert archive / Kansas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2002
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 113, NWS Hastings, NE
NWS Hastings, NE issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 10, 2002, 7:27 PM CDT for Osborne County, Rooks County, Kansas. It was in force for 63 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 10, 2002, 7:27 PM CDT (00:27 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 10, 2002, 8:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 63 min
- Issued by
- NWS Hastings, NE
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
Counties Osborne County, KS, Rooks County, KS
The radar
The Grand Island radar (KUEX), 128 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:27 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 10, 8:29 PM CDT | Hail 0.88 | Woodston, 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 10, 6:15 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 00:00Z, 0.5 hours before the alert went out and 183 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
- 2507 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -31 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1734 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 39 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 20 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 156 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.3
- Supercell composite
- 6.1
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WUUS53 KGID 110027 SVRGRI KSC141-163-110130- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HASTINGS NE 727 PM CDT MON JUN 10 2002 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN HASTINGS HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... OSBORNE COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL KANSAS ROOKS COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL KANSAS * UNTIL 830 PM CDT * AT 722 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 4 MILES SOUTHWEST OF WOODSTON...OR ABOUT 26 MILES SOUTH OF PHILLIPSBURG...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 20 MPH. * THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR... ALTON AT 745 PM CDT PEOPLE IN ROOKS AND OSBORNE COUNTIES SHOULD SEEK SHELTER IN A STURDY STRUCTURE AND STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS. LAT...LON 3915 9956 3915 9851 3955 9852 3954 9959 NNNN
The office that day
Everything else NWS Hastings, NE issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 10, 7:25 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Smith | 50 min |
| Jun 10, 8:05 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Jewell | 55 min |
| Jun 11, 2:46 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Smith | 59 min |
| Jun 11, 3:07 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Jewell | 53 min |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Kansas, 2002Every 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.