Alert archive / Kansas / Tornado Warnings in 2002
Tornado Warning 37, NWS Hastings, NE
NWS Hastings, NE issued this tornado warning at Jul 28, 2002, 4:29 PM CDT for Jewell County, Kansas. It was in force for 61 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 28, 2002, 4:29 PM CDT (21:29 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 28, 2002, 5:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 61 min
- Issued by
- NWS Hastings, NE
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Jewell County, KS
The radar
The Grand Island radar (KUEX), 52 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:31 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 28, 4:45 PM CDT | Thunderstorm Wind 62 E | Burr Oak, KS | |
| Jul 28, 5:15 PM CDT | Hail 1 | Esbon, 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
Omaha, NE (KOAX), launched 12:00Z, 9.5 hours before the alert went out and 227 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
- 453 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -295 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1877 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 9 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 55 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 93 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.6
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
692 WFUS53 KGID 282129 TORGRI KSC089-282230- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HASTINGS NE 429 PM CDT SUN JUL 28 2002 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN HASTINGS HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... NORTHERN JEWELL COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL KANSAS * UNTIL 530 PM CDT * AT 426 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A DEVELOPING TORNADO 6 MILES NORTH OF ESBON...OR ABOUT 47 MILES NORTHWEST OF CONCORDIA...MOVING EAST AT 30 MPH. * THE TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO BE NEAR... BURR OAK AT 435 PM CDT WEBBER AT 505 PM CDT PEOPLE IN NORTHERN JEWELL COUNTY SHOULD TAKE SHELTER IMMEDIATELY IN A BASEMENT OR SMALL INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR. IF YOU ARE CAUGHT OUTSIDE...SEEK SHELTER IN A NEARBY BUILDING. AS A LAST RESORT...SEEK SHELTER IN A DITCH OR LOW SPOT AND COVER YOUR HEAD WITH YOUR HANDS. LAT...LON 3979 9851 3980 9794 4000 9792 3999 9850 NNNN
The office that day
Everything else NWS Hastings, NE issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 27, 9:31 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Osborne, Rooks | 59 min |
| Jul 28, 4:23 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Jewell | 67 min |
| Jul 28, 5:14 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Jewell | 31 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.