Alert archive / Kansas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2002
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 151, NWS Wichita, KS
NWS Wichita, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 8, 2002, 7:38 PM CDT for Chautauqua County, Kansas. It was in force for 67 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, 7:38 PM CDT (00:38 UTC)
- Expired
- May 8, 2002, 8:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 67 min
- Issued by
- NWS Wichita, KS
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Chautauqua County, KS
The radar
The Wichita radar (KICT), 110 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:40 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, 8:02 PM CDT | Hail 0.75 | Sedan, KS | |
| May 8, 8:08 PM CDT | Hail 1.25 | Sedan, 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 nearest sounding before it
Topeka, KS (KTOP), launched 00:00Z, 0.6 hours before the alert went out and 207 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
- 2 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -406 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 2470 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 32 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 285 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 319 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WUUS53 KICT 090038 SVRICT KSC019-090145- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WICHITA KS 738 PM CDT WED MAY 8 2002 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN WICHITA HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... CHAUTAUQUA COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST KANSAS * UNTIL 845 PM CDT. * AT 738 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 7 MILES EAST OF DEXTER...OR ABOUT 26 MILES EAST OF ARKANSAS CITY...MOVING EAST AT 40 MPH. * THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE OVER RURAL AREAS OF CHAUTAUQUA COUNTY... THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM IS CAPABLE OF PRODUCING HAIL UP TO THE SIZE OF QUARTERS... WINDS UP TO 70 MILES AN HOUR... VERY HEAVY RAINFALL...WHICH MAY CAUSE LOCALIZED FLOODING... STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS. 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 CHAUTAUQUA COUNTY UNTIL 845 PM CDT. LAT...LON 3728 9649 3713 9648 3714 9607 3727 9610 /CARUSO NNNN
The office that day
Everything else NWS Wichita, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 8, 7:11 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Sumner | 64 min |
| May 8, 7:29 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Elk | 61 min |
| May 8, 8:06 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ICT | Chautauqua | 54 min |
| May 8, 8:20 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Montgomery | 55 min |
| May 8, 8:52 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Labette | 53 min |
| May 9, 1:17 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | ICT | Labette | 6 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.