Alert archive / Kansas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2002
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 2, NWS Wichita, KS
NWS Wichita, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 8, 2002, 6:15 PM CST for Barton County, Kansas. It was in force for 45 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
- Mar 8, 2002, 6:15 PM CST (00:15 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 8, 2002, 7:00 PM CST
- In force
- 45 min
- Issued by
- NWS Wichita, KS
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Barton County, KS
The radar
The Dodge City radar (KDDC), 139 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:15 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.
The nearest sounding before it
Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 00:00Z, 0.3 hours before the alert went out and 134 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1703 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 51 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 214 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 125 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- -1.1
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WUUS53 KICT 090015 SVRICT KSC009-090100- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WICHITA KS 614 PM CST FRI MAR 8 2002 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN WICHITA HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... BARTON COUNTY IN KANSAS * UNTIL 700 PM CST. * AT 611 PM CST...A TRAINED WEATHER SPOTTER REPORTED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 1 MILE EAST OF GREAT BEND...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 40 MPH. * THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR HOISINGTON AROUND 620 PM CST... 7 MILES NORTHWEST OF CLAFLIN AROUND 630 PM CST... THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM IS CAPABLE OF PRODUCING HAIL UP TO THE SIZE OF QUARTERS... AT 612 PM...A SPOTTER REPORTED QUARTER SIZE HAIL 1 MILE EAST OF GREAT BEND. STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS. REPORT SEVERE WEATHER TO THE NEAREST LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCY. THEY WILL RELAY YOUR REPORT TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE. REPEATING...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING HAS BEEN ISSUED FOR BARTON COUNTY UNTIL 700 PM CST. LAT...LON 3843 9885 3839 9852 3868 9852 3868 9879 /DARMOFAL & NNNN
The office that day
Everything else NWS Wichita, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 8, 6:18 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Lincoln | 42 min |
| Mar 8, 6:47 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Ellsworth | 43 min |
| Mar 8, 6:59 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Rice | 46 min |
| Mar 8, 7:14 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Reno | 46 min |
| Mar 8, 7:19 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | McPherson, Saline | 56 min |
| Mar 8, 7:30 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Kingman | 60 min |
| Mar 8, 7:55 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Harvey, Sedgwick | 65 min |
| Mar 8, 8:00 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Reno | 30 min |
| Mar 8, 8:03 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Marion | 57 min |
| Mar 8, 8:07 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Harper | 68 min |
| Mar 8, 8:36 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Sumner | 54 min |
| Mar 8, 8:42 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Butler | 63 min |
| Mar 8, 8:56 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Sedgwick | 34 min |
| Mar 8, 9:15 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Cowley | 75 min |
| Mar 8, 9:25 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Sumner | 35 min |
| Mar 8, 9:33 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Greenwood | 72 min |
| Mar 8, 9:41 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Butler | 34 min |
| Mar 8, 9:54 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Chautauqua, Elk | 81 min |
| Mar 8, 10:25 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Wilson, Woodson | 65 min |
| Mar 8, 10:55 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Allen, Neosho | 65 min |
| Mar 8, 10:56 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Montgomery | 64 min |
| Mar 8, 11:18 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Labette | 57 min |
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.