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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 288, NWS Wichita, KS

June 26, 2002Elk County, Greenwood County, Kansas

NWS Wichita, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 26, 2002, 10:35 PM CDT for Elk County, Greenwood County, Kansas. It was in force for 55 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 26, 2002, 10:35 PM CDT (03:35 UTC)
Expired: Jun 26, 2002, 11:30 PM CDT
In force: 55 min
Issued by: NWS Wichita, KS
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

Counties Elk County, KS, Greenwood County, KS

The radar

The Wichita radar (KICT), 123 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 03:38 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.

Did it verify

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.

The nearest sounding before it

Topeka, KS (KTOP), launched 00:00Z, 3.6 hours before the alert went out and 161 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.

Skew-T log-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.

Mixed-layer CAPE: 1911 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -6 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1971 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 27 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 21 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 109 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 5.5

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
WUUS53 KICT 270335
SVRICT
KSC049-073-270430-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WICHITA KS
1035 PM CDT WED JUN 26 2002

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN WICHITA HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  GREENWOOD COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST KANSAS
  ELK COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST KANSAS

* UNTIL 1130 PM CDT.

* AT 1035 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 2 MILES WEST OF FALL RIVER...OR ABOUT 19 MILES
  SOUTHEAST OF EUREKA...MOVING SOUTH AT 25 MPH.

* THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE
  OVER RURAL AREAS OF ELK COUNTY...

THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM IS CAPABLE OF PRODUCING
  HAIL UP TO THE SIZE OF PENNIES...
  DAMAGING WINDS OF 70 TO 80 MILES AN HOUR...
  VERY FREQUENT AND DEADLY CLOUD-TO-GROUND LIGHTNING...

THE STORM HAS A HISTORY OF PRODUCING DAMAGING WINDS AND LARGE HAIL.

SEEK A STURDY SHELTER IMMEDIATELY

AVOID USING THE TELEPHONE OR OTHER ELECTRICAL EQUIPMENT...WHILE
LIGHTNING IS IN THE AREA.

REPEATING...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING HAS BEEN ISSUED FOR
GREENWOOD AND ELK COUNTIES UNTIL 1130 PM CDT.

LAT...LON 3771 9598 3767 9620 3742 9612 3745 9596

/ES

NNNN

What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this severe thunderstorm warning went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.

NWS Wichita, KS wrote its last area forecast discussion before this severe thunderstorm warning went out at Jun 26, 7:47 PM CDT, 2 hours 48 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 26, 7:47 PM CDT, 2 hours 48 minutes before

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION...UPDATE
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WICHITA KS
747 PM CDT WED JUN 26 2002

WL UPDATE TO INCREASE POPS IN SE KS AND TO YANK POPS OVER CENTRAL KS
ZONES.

MCS OVER EAXS AREA CONTINUES TO TRACK SOUTH AT A GOOD CLIP...WITH A
VERY IMPRESSIVE TRACK RECORD. THIS MCS WL CONTINUE TO HAVE PLENTY OF
MOISTURE AND A DECENT COLD POOL TO WORK WITH. LOW LEVEL FLOW SHOULD
CONTINUE TO BE LIGHT OUT OF THE SOUTH OVER SE KS WHICH SHOULD AID
SOMEWHAT IN FEEDING MOISTURE INTO THIS COMPLEX. ONLY INHIBITING
FACTOR WOULD BE LACK OF 850MB FLOW....WHICH IS LIGHT AND VARIABLE
OVER AREA OF CONCERN. DUE TO THIS LARGE MCS...WL UP POPS IN SE TO
LIKELY CATEGORY...AND FAD TO 20 OVER ICT AREA.

.ICT...
KS...NONE.

LAWSON

In the hours before

Local storm report, Jun 26, 7:56 PM CDT, 2 hours 39 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WICHITA, KANSAS
756 PM CDT WED JUN 26 2002

TIME(CDT)  .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE   ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....COUNTY LOCATION....

0554 PM    GALVA                     KS   1.00 INCH HAIL
06/26/02   MCPHERSON                      REPORTED BY LAW
                                          ENFORCEMENT

MLE

The office that day

Everything else NWS Wichita, KS issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 26, 8:22 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Lyon	53 min
Jun 26, 9:07 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Greenwood	53 min
Jun 26, 9:52 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Chase	53 min
Jun 26, 9:56 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Greenwood	64 min
Jun 26, 10:37 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Elk	53 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.