Severe Thunderstorm Warning 128, NWS Wichita, KS

Issued

May 7, 2002, 10:23 PM CDT (03:23 UTC)

Expired

May 7, 2002, 11:30 PM CDT

In force

67 min

Issued by

NWS Wichita, KS

Area

Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Sedgwick County, KS

The Wichita radar (KICT), 10 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 03:27 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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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.

Not verified. The Iowa Environmental Mesonet's Cow found no qualifying storm report inside this severe thunderstorm warning while it was in force. That is not proof nothing happened: reports are thin where few people live.

Cow counts a report within 15 km of the polygon while the warning was in force: a tornado for a tornado warning; hail of 1 inch or more, a gust of 58 mph or more or wind damage for a severe thunderstorm warning; a flash flood report for a flash flood warning.

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BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WICHITA KS
1023 PM CDT TUE MAY 7 2002

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN WICHITA HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  SEDGWICK COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL KANSAS

* UNTIL 1130 PM CDT.

* AT 1023 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM OVER MT VERNON...OR ABOUT 26 MILES SOUTH OF
  HUTCHINSON...MOVING EAST AT 25 MPH.

* THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE
  NEAR GARDEN PLAIN AROUND 1040 PM CDT...
  NEAR ANDALE AROUND 1050 PM CDT...
  NEAR GODDARD AROUND 1055 PM CDT...
  NEAR COLWICH AROUND 1100 PM CDT...
  NEAR MAIZE AROUND 1110 PM CDT...
  NEAR WEST WICHITA AND MID CONTINENT AIRPORT AROUND 1115 PM CDT...

THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM IS CAPABLE OF PRODUCING
  DAMAGING HAIL UP TO THE SIZE OF GOLFBALLS...
  DAMAGING WINDS OF 70 TO 80 MILES AN HOUR...
  VERY HEAVY RAINFALL...WHICH MAY CAUSE LOCALIZED FLOODING...

THE STORM HAS A HISTORY OF PRODUCING DAMAGING WINDS AND LARGE HAIL.

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
SEDGWICK COUNTY UNTIL 1130 PM CDT.

LAT...LON 3786 9766 3753 9778 3756 9720 3786 9721

/COX

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NWS Wichita, KS wrote its last area forecast discussion before this severe thunderstorm warning went out at May 7, 8:35 PM CDT, 1 hour 48 minutes earlier.

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WICHITA KS
835 PM CDT TUE MAY 7 2002

UPDATE...

STRONG UPPER DIVERGENCE ALONG WITH CAPE OF 1500-2500 J/KG ACROSS THE
CWA WILL SUPPORT CONTINUED DEEP CONVECTION THROUGH THE NIGHT ACROSS
THE SOUTHERN THIRD OF THE CWA. EXPECT THE CONVECTION TO THE WEST TO
SLOWLY MOVE ESE WHILE SUSTAINING INTENSITY GIVEN CURRENT CAPE. 00Z
MOISTURE PARAMETERS ALONG WITH OBSERVER REPORTS OF 3-3.5 INCHES OF
RAIN WARRANTED A FLOOD WATCH FOR AREAS SOUTH AND EAST OF WICHITA.
WILL CONTINUE TO UPDATE THE FCST AS WARRANTED.

CO

.ICT...FLOOD WATCH OVERNIGHT KSZ069>072-092>096-098>100.

In the hours before

KSZ032-033-047>053-080311-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WICHITA KS
954 PM CDT TUE MAY 7 2002

...TORNADO WATCH NUMBER 250 ALLOWED TO EXPIRE...

TORNADO WATCH NUMBER 250 WILL BE ALLOWED TO EXPIRE FOR THE FOLLOWING
COUNTIES...

IN CENTRAL KANSAS...

         LINCOLN      ELLSWORTH      SALINE      RICE

         MCPHERSON    MARION         CHASE       RUSSELL

         BARTON

SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL PERSIST FOR A TIME TONIGHT...HOWEVER
THE THREAT FOR TORNADOES HAS ENDED.

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Kansas, 2002Every severe thunderstorm warning in 2002

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.