Severe Thunderstorm Warning 131, NWS Wichita, KS

Issued

May 7, 2002, 11:40 PM CDT (04:40 UTC)

Expired

May 8, 2002, 12:45 AM CDT

In force

65 min

Issued by

NWS Wichita, KS

Area

Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Butler County, KS

The Wichita radar (KICT), 50 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 04:41 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
1139 PM CDT TUE MAY 7 2002

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN WICHITA HAS ISSUED A

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

* UNTIL 1245 AM CDT.

* AT 1139 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM OVER KECHI...OR ABOUT 8 MILES NORTHEAST OF
  DOWNTOWN WICHITA...MOVING EAST AT 25 MPH.

* THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE
  NEAR BENTON AROUND 1155 PM CDT...
  NEAR TOWANDA AROUND 1205 AM CDT...
  7 MILES SOUTH OF POTWIN AROUND 1210 AM CDT...
  NEAR EL DORADO AROUND 1220 AM CDT...
  12 MILES NORTH OF LEON AROUND 1225 AM 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 BUTLER
COUNTY UNTIL 1245 AM CDT.

LAT...LON 3797 9713 3751 9712 3751 9653 3803 9659

/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, 3 hours 5 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.