Alert archive / Kansas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2002
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 166, NWS Wichita, KS
NWS Wichita, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 11, 2002, 11:41 PM CDT for Butler County, Kansas. It was in force for 64 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- May 11, 2002, 11:41 PM CDT (04:41 UTC)
- Expired
- May 12, 2002, 12:45 AM CDT
- In force
- 64 min
- Issued by
- NWS Wichita, KS
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Butler County, KS
The radar
The Wichita radar (KICT), 46 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 04:44 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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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 11, 8:00 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 5 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Lamont, OK (KLMN), launched 00:00Z, 4.7 hours before the alert went out and 123 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
- 1882 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -52 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1037 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 40 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 242 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 286 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 2.7
- Supercell composite
- 15.8
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WUUS53 KICT 120441 SVRICT KSC015-120545- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WICHITA KS 1141 PM CDT SAT MAY 11 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 1141 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 3 MILES EAST OF DERBY...OR ABOUT 13 MILES SOUTHEAST OF DOWNTOWN WICHITA...MOVING EAST AT 40 MPH. * THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR DOUGLASS AROUND 1150 PM CDT... NEAR AUGUSTA AROUND MIDNIGHT CDT... NEAR LEON AROUND 1215 AM CDT... THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM IS CAPABLE OF PRODUCING HAIL UP TO THE SIZE OF PENNIES... 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. 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 3764 9713 3749 9712 3755 9656 3783 9667 /CARUSO NNNN
The office that day
Everything else NWS Wichita, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 11, 7:00 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ICT | Kingman | 45 min |
| May 11, 7:43 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ICT | Kingman | 47 min |
| May 11, 7:44 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Reno | 61 min |
| May 11, 9:24 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Kingman | 66 min |
| May 11, 11:22 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Sedgwick | 53 min |
| May 11, 11:24 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Harper | 66 min |
| May 11, 11:56 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Sumner | 64 min |
| May 12, 12:25 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Ellsworth | 50 min |
| May 12, 12:48 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Lincoln | 57 min |
| May 12, 12:54 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Cowley | 51 min |
| May 12, 1:07 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Greenwood | 53 min |
| May 12, 1:15 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | ICT | Butler | 6 hr |
| May 12, 2:38 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Neosho | 67 min |
| May 12, 12:29 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Labette | 46 min |
| May 12, 4:13 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Allen | 32 min |
| May 12, 4:17 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Elk | 43 min |
| May 12, 4:25 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Wilson | 50 min |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Kansas, 2002Every severe thunderstorm warning in 2002
Sources
The product and its follow-ups from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service and Storm Prediction Center text; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.