Alert archive / Kansas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2002
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 27, NWS Wichita, KS
NWS Wichita, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 11, 2002, 5:28 PM CDT for Harvey County, Kansas. It was in force for 62 min. 1 report came from inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The outline as issued, with what was reported inside it.
The facts
- Issued
- Apr 11, 2002, 5:28 PM CDT (22:28 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 11, 2002, 6:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 62 min
- Issued by
- NWS Wichita, KS
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Harvey County, KS
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 11, 6:00 PM CDT | Tornado F0 | Newton, KS | Occurred in open country. |
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.
The watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 11, 3:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 5 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Lamont, OK (KLMN), launched 12:00Z, 10.5 hours before the alert went out and 167 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
- 1160 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 20 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 146 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 163 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 112228 SVRICT KSC079-112330- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WICHITA KS 528 PM CDT THU APR 11 2002 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN WICHITA HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... HARVEY COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL KANSAS * UNTIL 630 PM CDT. * AT 528 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 3 MILES WEST OF HESSTON...OR ABOUT 24 MILES EAST OF HUTCHINSON...MOVING EAST AT 20 MPH. * THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR HESSTON AROUND 530 PM CDT... NEAR WALTON AROUND 555 PM CDT... THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM IS CAPABLE OF PRODUCING HAIL UP TO THE SIZE OF PENNIES... WINDS UP TO 60 MILES AN HOUR... 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 HARVEY COUNTY UNTIL 630 PM CDT. LAT...LON 3815 9755 3806 9753 3810 9726 3816 9727 /CARUSO NNNN
The office that day
Everything else NWS Wichita, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 11, 5:01 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Reno | 59 min |
| Apr 11, 5:05 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Marion | 55 min |
| Apr 11, 5:36 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ICT | Kingman, Reno | 39 min |
| Apr 11, 5:46 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ICT | Harvey | 59 min |
| Apr 11, 5:58 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Sedgwick | 62 min |
| Apr 11, 6:12 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ICT | Kingman, Sedgwick | 63 min |
| Apr 11, 6:43 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ICT | Harvey | 62 min |
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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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.