Severe Thunderstorm Warning 238, NWS Wichita, KS

Issued

Jun 12, 2002, 1:19 AM CDT (06:19 UTC)

Expired

Jun 12, 2002, 2:15 AM CDT

In force

56 min

Issued by

NWS Wichita, KS

Area

Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Montgomery County, KS

The Tulsa radar (KINX), 114 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 06:21 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.

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.

Not verified. The Iowa Environmental Mesonet's Cow found no qualifying storm report inside this severe thunderstorm warning while it was in force. That is not proof nothing happened: reports are thin where few people live.

Cow counts a report within 15 km of the polygon while the warning was in force: a tornado for a tornado warning; hail of 1 inch or more, a gust of 58 mph or more or wind damage for a severe thunderstorm warning; a flash flood report for a flash flood warning.

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WUUS53 KICT 120619
SVRICT
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BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WICHITA KS
120 AM CDT WED JUN 12 2002

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN WICHITA HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  MONTGOMERY COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST KANSAS

* UNTIL 215 AM CDT.

* AT 120 AM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 3 MILES WEST OF BOLTON...OR ABOUT 15 MILES
  NORTHWEST OF COFFEYVILLE...MOVING EAST AT 35 MPH.

* THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE
  NEAR INDEPENDENCE AROUND 125 AM CDT...
  NEAR LIBERTY AROUND 135 AM CDT...

THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM IS CAPABLE OF PRODUCING
  HAIL UP TO THE SIZE OF PENNIES...
  WINDS UP TO 60 MILES AN HOUR...
  VERY HEAVY RAINFALL...WHICH MAY CAUSE LOCALIZED FLOODING...

FOR YOUR PROTECTION...MOVE TO AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF
YOUR HOME OR BUSINESS.

STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS.

REPEATING...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING HAS BEEN ISSUED FOR
MONTGOMERY COUNTY UNTIL 215 AM CDT.

LAT...LON 3727 9588 3710 9593 3704 9559 3724 9554

/ES

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NWS Wichita, KS wrote its last area forecast discussion before this severe thunderstorm warning went out at Jun 12, 12:05 AM CDT, 1 hour 14 minutes earlier.

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION...UPDATED
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WICHITA KS
1205 AM CDT WED JUN 12 2002

SENT ZFP AND IFPS GRAPHICS UPDATE. LOWERED POPS SLIGHTLY BUT KEPT
THEM IN 40/50 PCT CHANCE WITH THE FRONT PROGGED TO MOVE SOUTHWARD
INTO CENTRAL AND THE NORTHERN PORTIONS OF S-CNTRL/SERN KS OVERNIGHT.
THIS FRONT WILL BE SLIDING INTO THE RICH THETA-E AIRMASS. 00Z
MESOETA CONTINUES TO HINT AT MCS POTENTIALLY FORMING OVER CNTRL KS
OVERNIGHT NEAR THE FRONT...IN VIEW OF THE COUPLED UPPER
DIVERGENCE/LOW LVL CONVERGENCE. A FEW STORMS ARE LIGHTING UP IN
CNTRL KS ATTM TO SUPPORT THIS IDEA. SO MENTIONED SOME GUSTY
WINDS/LOCALLY HEAVY RAINFALL WITH THE STORMS. RECENT HEAVY RAINFALLS
AND HIGH PRECIPITABLE WATER AIRMASS INDICATE A NEED TO CONTINUE THE
FLOOD WATCH OVERNIGHT.

.ICT...
KS...FLOOD WATCH UNTIL 600 AM CDT THURSDAY FOR ENTIRE CWA.

In the hours before

KSZ032-033-047>053-067>072-082-083-091>096-098>100-120530-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WICHITA KS
1154 PM CDT TUE JUN 11 2002

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN WICHITA HAS DEACTIVATED OUR SKYWARN
SPOTTER NETWORK.

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Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Kansas, 2002Every severe thunderstorm warning in 2002

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.