Alert archive / Kansas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2002
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 13, NWS Wichita, KS
NWS Wichita, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 8, 2002, 8:36 PM CST for Sumner County, Kansas. It was in force for 54 min. 3 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
- Mar 8, 2002, 8:36 PM CST (02:36 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 8, 2002, 9:30 PM CST
- In force
- 54 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), 43 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 02:37 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 8, 8:47 PM CST | Thunderstorm Wind 56 E | Conway Spgs, KS | |
| Mar 8, 9:15 PM CST | Thunderstorm Wind 56 E | Milan, KS | |
| Mar 8, 9:30 PM CST | Hail 1 | Belle Plaine, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 8, 4:00 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Lamont, OK (KLMN), launched 00:00Z, 2.6 hours before the alert went out and 73 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
- 814 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -189 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 967 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 62 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 457 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 507 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.2
- Supercell composite
- 2.1
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WUUS53 KICT 090236 SVRICT KSC191-090330- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WICHITA KS 836 PM CST FRI MAR 8 2002 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN WICHITA HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... SUMNER COUNTY IN KANSAS * UNTIL 930 PM CST. * AT 832 PM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS ALONG A LINE EXTENDING FROM 2 MILES WEST OF VIOLA TO 4 MILES NORTHEAST OF MANCHESTER...OR ALONG A LINE EXTENDING FROM 6 MILES NORTH OF CONWAY SPRINGS TO 7 MILES SOUTH OF ANTHONY...MOVING EAST AT 40 MPH. * THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE NEAR CONWAY SPRINGS AROUND 840 PM CST... NEAR CALDWELL AROUND 900 PM CST... NEAR WELLINGTON AROUND 910 PM CST... NEAR SOUTH HAVEN AROUND 915 PM CST... THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS ARE CAPABLE OF PRODUCING HAIL UP TO THE SIZE OF QUARTERS... WINDS UP TO 60 MILES AN HOUR... THE STORMS HAVE A HISTORY OF PRODUCING DAMAGING WINDS AND LARGE HAIL. STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS. REPORT SEVERE WEATHER TO THE NEAREST LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCY. THEY WILL RELAY YOUR REPORT TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE. REPEATING...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING HAS BEEN ISSUED FOR SUMNER COUNTY UNTIL 930 PM CST. LAT...LON 3745 9774 3701 9778 3701 9721 3746 9719 /DARMOFAL NNNN
The office that day
Everything else NWS Wichita, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 8, 6:15 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Barton | 45 min |
| Mar 8, 6:18 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Lincoln | 42 min |
| Mar 8, 6:47 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Ellsworth | 43 min |
| Mar 8, 6:59 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Rice | 46 min |
| Mar 8, 7:14 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Reno | 46 min |
| Mar 8, 7:19 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | McPherson, Saline | 56 min |
| Mar 8, 7:30 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Kingman | 60 min |
| Mar 8, 7:55 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Harvey, Sedgwick | 65 min |
| Mar 8, 8:00 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Reno | 30 min |
| Mar 8, 8:03 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Marion | 57 min |
| Mar 8, 8:07 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Harper | 68 min |
| Mar 8, 8:42 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Butler | 63 min |
| Mar 8, 8:56 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Sedgwick | 34 min |
| Mar 8, 9:15 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Cowley | 75 min |
| Mar 8, 9:25 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Sumner | 35 min |
| Mar 8, 9:33 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Greenwood | 72 min |
| Mar 8, 9:41 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Butler | 34 min |
| Mar 8, 9:54 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Chautauqua, Elk | 81 min |
| Mar 8, 10:25 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Wilson, Woodson | 65 min |
| Mar 8, 10:55 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Allen, Neosho | 65 min |
| Mar 8, 10:56 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Montgomery | 64 min |
| Mar 8, 11:18 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Labette | 57 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.