Severe Thunderstorm Warning 129, NWS Wichita, KS

Issued

May 7, 2002, 10:58 PM CDT (03:58 UTC)

Expired

May 8, 2002, 12:00 AM CDT

In force

62 min

Issued by

NWS Wichita, KS

Area

Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Kingman County, KS

The Wichita radar (KICT), 63 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 04:02 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.

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
1056 PM CDT TUE MAY 7 2002

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN WICHITA HAS ISSUED A

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

* UNTIL MIDNIGHT CDT.

* AT 1056 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 4 MILES SOUTH OF PENALOSA...OR ABOUT 24 MILES
  EAST OF PRATT...MOVING EAST AT 15 MPH.

* THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE
  NEAR KINGMAN AROUND 1125 PM CDT
  NEAR CLEVELAND AROUND 1130 PM CDT...

THIS REPLACES THE TORNADO WARNING PREVIOUSLY ISSUED FOR THE WARNED
AREA.

THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM IS CAPABLE OF PRODUCING
  DAMAGING HAIL UP TO THE SIZE OF GOLFBALLS...
  VERY HEAVY RAINFALL...WHICH MAY CAUSE LOCALIZED FLOODING...

THE STORM HAS A HISTORY OF PRODUCING LARGE HAIL.

A TORNADO WATCH IS ALSO IN EFFECT FOR THE WARNED AREA. SEVERE
THUNDERSTORMS CAN PRODUCE TORNADOES WITH LITTLE OR NO ADVANCE 
WARNING. 

A FLASH FLOOD WARNING ALSO REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR THE WARNED AREA 
UNTIL 115 AM CDT.

REPEATING...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING HAS BEEN ISSUED FOR KINGMAN
COUNTY UNTIL MIDNIGHT CDT.

LAT...LON 3771 9839 3750 9840 3747 9782 3771 9781

/COX

NNNN

NWS Wichita, KS wrote its last area forecast discussion before this severe thunderstorm warning went out at May 7, 8:35 PM CDT, 2 hours 23 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.