Alert archive / Kansas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2002
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 252, NWS Wichita, KS
NWS Wichita, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 12, 2002, 7:45 PM CDT for Kingman County, Kansas. It was in force for 60 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
- Jun 12, 2002, 7:45 PM CDT (00:45 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 12, 2002, 8:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 60 min
- Issued by
- NWS Wichita, KS
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Kingman County, KS
The radar
The Wichita radar (KICT), 48 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:44 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 watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 12, 4:00 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 5 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Lamont, OK (KLMN), launched 00:00Z, 0.8 hours before the alert went out and 122 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
- 1711 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -10 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1397 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 52 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 44 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 137 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.9
- Supercell composite
- 6.2
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000
WUUS53 KICT 130045
SVRICT
KSC095-130145-
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WICHITA KS
745 PM CDT WED JUN 12 2002
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN WICHITA HAS ISSUED A
* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
KINGMAN COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL KANSAS
* UNTIL 845 PM CDT.
* AT 745 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 5 MILES SOUTHEAST OF KINGMAN...OR ABOUT 33
MILES SOUTH OF HUTCHINSON...MOVING EAST AT 25 MPH.
* THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE
NEAR MT VERNON AROUND 805 PM CDT...
THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM IS CAPABLE OF PRODUCING
HAIL UP TO THE SIZE OF QUARTERS...
DAMAGING WINDS OF 70 TO 80 MILES AN HOUR...
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 KINGMAN
COUNTY UNTIL 845 PM CDT.
LAT...LON 3768 9813 3750 9807 3751 9781 3772 9782
3772 9797
/JAKUB
NNNNThe office that day
Everything else NWS Wichita, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 12, 7:08 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ICT | Butler | 52 min |
| Jun 12, 7:19 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Wilson, Woodson | 56 min |
| Jun 12, 7:43 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | ICT | Butler, Cowley | 6 hr |
| Jun 12, 7:55 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ICT | Neosho, Wilson | 65 min |
| Jun 12, 8:01 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Cowley | 59 min |
| Jun 12, 8:07 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | ICT | Kingman | 3 hr |
| Jun 12, 8:15 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ICT | Chautauqua, Cowley | 60 min |
| Jun 12, 8:32 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Sumner | 58 min |
| Jun 12, 8:46 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | ICT | Neosho | 6 hr |
| Jun 12, 9:01 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ICT | Neosho | 44 min |
| Jun 12, 9:24 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ICT | Labette | 51 min |
| Jun 12, 9:53 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | ICT | Sumner | 6 hr |
| Jun 13, 11:25 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | ICT | Butler, Sedgwick | 3 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.