Alert archive / Kansas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2002
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 113, NWS Wichita, KS
NWS Wichita, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 7, 2002, 4:56 PM CDT for Sumner County, Kansas. It was in force for 64 min. 10 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
- May 7, 2002, 4:56 PM CDT (21:56 UTC)
- Expired
- May 7, 2002, 6:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 64 min
- Issued by
- NWS Wichita, KS
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Sumner County, KS
The radar
The Wichita radar (KICT), 45 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:58 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 7, 5:07 PM CDT | Hail 0.75 | Argonia, KS | |
| May 7, 5:12 PM CDT | Hail 1.75 | Wellington, KS | |
| May 7, 5:17 PM CDT | Hail 1.25 | Argonia, KS | |
| May 7, 5:23 PM CDT | Hail 1 | Argonia, KS | |
| May 7, 5:33 PM CDT | Hail 1.75 | Milan, KS | |
| May 7, 5:35 PM CDT | Hail 1.75 | Milan, KS | |
| May 7, 5:39 PM CDT | Hail 0.75 | Mayfield, KS | |
| May 7, 5:40 PM CDT | Hail 1.75 | Mayfield, KS | |
| May 7, 5:48 PM CDT | Hail 1.25 | Mayfield, KS | |
| May 7, 6:07 PM CDT | Hail 1.75 | Wellington, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 7, 4:00 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 12:00Z, 9.9 hours before the alert went out and 213 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
- 1217 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -347 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1311 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 42 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 106 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 118 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.3
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WUUS53 KICT 072156 SVRICT KSC191-072300- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WICHITA KS 456 PM CDT TUE MAY 7 2002 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN WICHITA HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... SUMNER COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL KANSAS * UNTIL 600 PM CDT. * AT 456 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM OVER BLUFF CITY...OR ABOUT 41 MILES EAST OF MEDICINE LODGE...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 40 MPH. * THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE 12 MILES NORTHWEST OF CALDWELL AROUND 505 PM CDT... 6 MILES SOUTHEAST OF ARGONIA AROUND 510 PM CDT... NEAR MAYFIELD AROUND 525 PM CDT... NEAR WELLINGTON AROUND 535 PM CDT... NEAR BELLE PLAINE AROUND 550 PM CDT... THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM IS CAPABLE OF PRODUCING DAMAGING HAIL UP TO THE SIZE OF BASEBALLS... DAMAGING WINDS OF 70 TO 80 MILES AN HOUR... THIS IS A DANGEROUS STORM. REPEATING...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING HAS BEEN ISSUED FOR SUMNER COUNTY UNTIL 600 PM CDT. LAT...LON 3743 9779 3701 9778 3700 9722 3746 9725 /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, 7:14 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Marion | 61 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, 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 |
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.