Alert archive / Kansas / Tornado Warnings in 2002
Tornado Warning 13, NWS Goodland, KS
NWS Goodland, KS issued this tornado warning at Aug 11, 2002, 9:17 PM CDT for Logan County, Kansas. It was in force for 43 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
- Aug 11, 2002, 9:17 PM CDT (02:17 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 11, 2002, 10:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 43 min
- Issued by
- NWS Goodland, KS
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Logan County, KS
The radar
The Goodland radar (KGLD), 85 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 02:20 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 11, 9:40 PM CDT | Hail 1.75 | Russell Spgs, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 11, 6:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 5 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 00:00Z, 2.3 hours before the alert went out and 151 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
- 2276 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -26 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 2144 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 30 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -5 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 140 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 8.6
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
826 WFUS53 KGLD 120217 TORGLD KSC109-120300- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS 917 PM CDT SUN AUG 11 2002 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN GOODLAND HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... LOGAN COUNTY IN WEST CENTRAL KANSAS * UNTIL 1000 PM CDT * AT 917 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A THUNDERSTORM WITH A DEVELOPING TORNADO OVER SOUTH CENTRAL LOGAN COUNTY...OR ABOUT 11 MILES NORTHWEST OF SCOTT STATE LAKE...MOVING SOUTH AT 25 MPH. && LAT...LON 3885 10097 3886 10120 3872 10121 3872 10082
The office that day
Everything else NWS Goodland, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 11, 7:28 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Thomas | 62 min |
| Aug 11, 7:30 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Wichita | 60 min |
| Aug 11, 7:34 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Rawlins | 56 min |
| Aug 11, 7:36 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Logan | 54 min |
| Aug 11, 8:03 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | GLD | Thomas | 3 hr |
| Aug 11, 8:16 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | GLD | Logan | 44 min |
| Aug 11, 8:26 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Gove | 64 min |
| Aug 11, 8:30 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Rawlins | 60 min |
| Aug 11, 8:59 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Logan | 61 min |
| Aug 11, 9:13 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | GLD | Rawlins | 47 min |
| Aug 11, 9:36 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Gove | 39 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.