Alert archive / Kansas / Tornado Warnings in 2002
Tornado Warning 18, NWS Goodland, KS
NWS Goodland, KS issued this tornado warning at Aug 26, 2002, 3:13 PM CDT for Cheyenne County, Kansas. It was in force for 47 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Aug 26, 2002, 3:13 PM CDT (20:13 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 26, 2002, 4:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 47 min
- Issued by
- NWS Goodland, KS
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Cheyenne County, KS
The radar
The Goodland radar (KGLD), 57 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:13 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.
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 26, 2:05 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 5 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Denver, CO (KDNR), launched 12:00Z, 8.2 hours before the alert went out and 135 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 3707 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 26 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 20 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 30 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
883 WFUS53 KGLD 262013 TORGLD KSC023-262100- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS 311 PM CDT MON AUG 26 2002 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN GOODLAND HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... CHEYENNE COUNTY IN NORTHWEST KANSAS * UNTIL 400 PM CDT * AT 306 PM CDT...THE PUBLIC REPORTED A TORNADO 20 MILES NORTH OF BIRD CITY...OR JUST NORTHEAST OF BENKELMAN...MOVING SOUTHWEST AT 20 MPH. * THE TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO BE NEAR... BIRD CITY AROUND 345 PM CDT * PERSONS IN THE PATH OF THIS TORNADO SHOULD TAKE SHELTER NOW && LAT...LON 3988 10182 3964 10156 3999 10141 3999 10164
The office that day
Everything else NWS Goodland, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 26, 2:48 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Rawlins | 57 min |
| Aug 26, 3:44 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Rawlins | 61 min |
| Aug 26, 4:01 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Cheyenne | 59 min |
| Aug 26, 4:21 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | GLD | Cheyenne | 39 min |
| Aug 26, 4:55 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | GLD | Rawlins | 50 min |
| Aug 26, 5:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Cheyenne | 60 min |
| Aug 26, 5:07 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | GLD | Cheyenne, Rawlins | 4 hr |
| Aug 26, 5:31 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Sherman | 59 min |
| Aug 26, 5:37 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Thomas | 53 min |
| Aug 26, 6:20 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Wallace | 55 min |
| Aug 26, 6:34 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Thomas | 41 min |
| Aug 26, 6:49 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Logan | 56 min |
| Aug 26, 6:55 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | GLD | Thomas | 4 hr |
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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.