Alert archive / Kansas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2002
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 101, NWS Wichita, KS
NWS Wichita, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 6, 2002, 7:14 PM CDT for Marion County, Kansas. It was in force for 61 min. 4 reports came from inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named, with what was reported inside it.
The facts
- Issued
- May 6, 2002, 7:14 PM CDT (00:14 UTC)
- Expired
- May 6, 2002, 8:15 PM CDT
- In force
- 61 min
- Issued by
- NWS Wichita, KS
- Area
- Whole counties
County Marion County, KS
The radar
The Wichita radar (KICT), 84 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:13 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.
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 6, 7:23 PM CDT | Hail 1 | Tampa, KS | |
| May 6, 7:40 PM CDT | Hail 0.75 | Tampa, KS | |
| May 6, 8:10 PM CDT | Hail 0.75 | Ramona, KS | |
| May 6, 8:17 PM CDT | Tornado F0 | Hillsboro, KS | A brief touchdown in open country. |
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 6, 5:00 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Topeka, KS (KTOP), launched 00:00Z, 0.2 hours before the alert went out and 145 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
- 3555 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -19 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 992 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 65 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 177 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 208 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 4.9
- Supercell composite
- 15.9
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WUUS53 KICT 070014 SVRICT KSC115-070115- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WICHITA KS 714 PM CDT MON MAY 6 2002 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN WICHITA HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... MARION COUNTY IN CENTRAL KANSAS * UNTIL 815 PM CDT. * AT 714 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 5 MILES NORTHWEST OF DURHAM...OR ABOUT 20 MILES NORTHWEST OF MARION...MOVING EAST AT 25 MPH. * THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR DURHAM AROUND 715 PM CDT... NEAR TAMPA AROUND 730 PM CDT... 7 MILES NORTH OF LINCOLNVILLE AROUND 750 PM CDT... THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM IS CAPABLE OF PRODUCING HAIL UP TO THE SIZE OF QUARTERS... WINDS UP TO 60 MILES AN HOUR... A TORNADO WATCH IS ALSO IN EFFECT FOR THE WARNED AREA. SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS CAN PRODUCE TORNADOES WITH LITTLE OR NO ADVANCE WARNING. REPEATING...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING HAS BEEN ISSUED FOR MARION COUNTY UNTIL 815 PM CDT. /COX NNNN
The office that day
Everything else NWS Wichita, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 6, 7:03 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Saline | 57 min |
| May 6, 7:06 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Rice | 54 min |
| May 6, 7:58 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Rice | 62 min |
| May 6, 8:07 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ICT | Marion | 53 min |
| May 6, 8:40 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Chase | 65 min |
| May 6, 9:38 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Marion | 52 min |
| May 6, 10:10 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Chase | 65 min |
| May 7, 2:09 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Wilson | 51 min |
| May 7, 2:15 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Neosho | 45 min |
| May 7, 3:06 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Chautauqua | 39 min |
| May 7, 3:43 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Chautauqua | 62 min |
| May 7, 4:08 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Montgomery | 67 min |
| May 7, 4:30 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Labette | 60 min |
| May 7, 4:35 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Harper | 40 min |
| May 7, 4:56 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Sumner | 64 min |
| May 7, 5:14 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Harper | 31 min |
| May 7, 5:27 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ICT | Sumner | 63 min |
| May 7, 6:15 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Cowley | 60 min |
| May 7, 6:30 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Sumner | 30 min |
| May 7, 6:31 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ICT | Cowley | 59 min |
| May 7, 6:48 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Butler | 57 min |
| May 7, 6:49 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Harvey | 56 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.