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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 142, NWS Wichita, KS

May 8, 2002Sedgwick County, Kansas

NWS Wichita, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 8, 2002, 4:54 PM CDT for Sedgwick County, Kansas. It was in force for 51 min. 2 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 8, 2002, 4:54 PM CDT (21:54 UTC)
Expired: May 8, 2002, 5:45 PM CDT
In force: 51 min
Issued by: NWS Wichita, KS
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Sedgwick County, KS

The radar

The Wichita radar (KICT), 14 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:55 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 8, 5:00 PM CDT	Thunderstorm Wind 52 E	Wichita, KS	Roof damage.
May 8, 5:05 PM CDT	Hail 0.75	Kechi, 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 8, 2:00 PM CDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	6 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Topeka, KS (KTOP), launched 12:00Z, 9.9 hours before the alert went out and 203 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.

Skew-T log-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.

Mixed-layer CAPE: 50 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -814 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1189 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 56 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 522 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 829 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.6

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The office that day

Everything else NWS Wichita, KS issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 7, 7:09 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Marion	36 min
May 7, 7:21 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Elk	54 min
May 7, 7:31 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Cowley	29 min
May 7, 8:06 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	ICT	Wilson	3 hr
May 7, 8:06 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Chase	39 min
May 7, 8:15 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Elk	45 min
May 7, 8:18 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Montgomery, Wilson	57 min
May 7, 8:21 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	ICT	Neosho	3 hr
May 7, 8:25 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	ICT	Chautauqua	3 hr
May 7, 8:37 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Reno	53 min
May 7, 8:43 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Neosho	62 min
May 7, 8:52 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Labette	53 min
May 7, 9:02 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	ICT	Kingman	58 min
May 7, 10:00 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	ICT	Kingman	60 min
May 7, 10:20 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	ICT	Kingman	3 hr
May 7, 10:23 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Sedgwick	67 min
May 7, 10:58 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Kingman	62 min
May 7, 11:28 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Sedgwick	62 min
May 7, 11:40 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Butler	65 min
May 7, 11:47 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	ICT	Kingman	28 min
May 7, 11:49 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	ICT	Kingman	26 min
May 8, 12:13 AM CDT	Tornado Warning	ICT	Kingman	62 min
May 8, 12:25 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	ICT	Sedgwick	3 hr
May 8, 12:32 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Greenwood	58 min
May 8, 1:01 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Elk	59 min
May 8, 1:19 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Wilson	56 min
May 8, 1:26 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	ICT	Wilson	5 hr
May 8, 1:46 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Neosho	59 min
May 8, 1:56 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	ICT	Neosho	4 hr
May 8, 2:18 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	ICT	Montgomery	5 hr
May 8, 2:45 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	ICT	Labette	4 hr
May 8, 3:01 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	McPherson	59 min
May 8, 3:06 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Sedgwick	54 min
May 8, 3:08 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	ICT	McPherson	52 min
May 8, 3:21 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Kingman	54 min
May 8, 3:26 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	ICT	Marion	64 min
May 8, 3:32 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Harper	58 min
May 8, 3:56 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Sedgwick	79 min
May 8, 4:01 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	ICT	Harper	59 min
May 8, 4:10 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	ICT	Sedgwick	50 min
May 8, 4:20 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	ICT	Marion	40 min
May 8, 4:36 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	ICT	Chase	39 min
May 8, 4:45 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	ICT	Sumner	60 min
May 8, 4:47 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Butler	58 min
May 8, 4:54 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Harper	66 min
May 8, 5:14 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Greenwood	61 min
May 8, 5:31 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	ICT	Harper, Sumner	6 hr
May 8, 5:40 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Sumner	65 min
May 8, 5:44 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Butler	61 min
May 8, 6:01 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	ICT	Butler	6 hr
May 8, 6:11 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Cowley	79 min
May 8, 6:31 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	ICT	Sumner	44 min
May 8, 6:37 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Butler	53 min
May 8, 6:43 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	ICT	Cowley	62 min
May 8, 6:58 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	ICT	Cowley	5 hr

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.