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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 182, NWS Wichita, KS
NWS Wichita, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 16, 2002, 3:23 AM CDT for Greenwood County, Kansas. It was in force for 52 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 16, 2002, 3:23 AM CDT (08:23 UTC)
- Expired
- May 16, 2002, 4:15 AM CDT
- In force
- 52 min
- Issued by
- NWS Wichita, KS
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Greenwood County, KS
The radar
The Wichita radar (KICT), 108 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 08:26 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.
The nearest sounding before it
Topeka, KS (KTOP), launched 00:00Z, 8.4 hours before the alert went out and 128 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
- 27 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -444 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1321 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 41 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 115 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 204 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 160823 SVRICT KSC073-160915- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WICHITA KS 323 AM CDT THU MAY 16 2002 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN WICHITA HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... GREENWOOD COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST KANSAS * UNTIL 415 AM CDT. * AT 323 AM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS ALONG A LINE EXTENDING FROM 4 MILES WEST OF MADISON TO 12 MILES NORTHEAST OF LEON...OR ALONG A LINE EXTENDING FROM 20 MILES SOUTH OF EMPORIA TO 13 MILES EAST OF EL DORADO... MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 35 MPH. * THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE NEAR HAMILTON AROUND 345 AM CDT... NEAR EUREKA AROUND 350 AM CDT... THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS ARE CAPABLE OF PRODUCING DAMAGING WINDS OF 70 TO 80 MILES AN HOUR... THIS IS A DANGEROUS LINE OF STORMS. SEEK A STURDY SHELTER IMMEDIATELY REPEATING...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING HAS BEEN ISSUED FOR GREENWOOD COUNTY UNTIL 415 AM CDT. LAT...LON 3816 9622 3792 9654 3761 9646 3795 9595 /ES NNNN
The office that day
Everything else NWS Wichita, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 15, 11:33 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Barton, Russell | 57 min |
| May 16, 12:27 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Barton | 33 min |
| May 16, 12:45 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | ICT | Rice | 30 min |
| May 16, 1:08 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | McPherson | 67 min |
| May 16, 1:12 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Rice | 33 min |
| May 16, 1:43 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Marion | 47 min |
| May 16, 1:52 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | ICT | Rice | 4 hr |
| May 16, 4:32 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | ICT | McPherson | 4 hr |
| May 16, 5:49 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | ICT | Rice | 4 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.