Alert archive / Kansas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2002
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 295, NWS Wichita, KS
NWS Wichita, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 10, 2002, 5:51 PM CDT for Sedgwick County, Kansas. It was in force for 54 min. 5 reports came from inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named, with what was reported inside it.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 10, 2002, 5:51 PM CDT (22:51 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 10, 2002, 6:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 54 min
- Issued by
- NWS Wichita, KS
- Area
- Whole counties
County Sedgwick County, KS
The radar
The Wichita radar (KICT), 4 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:53 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.
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 10, 5:54 PM CDT | Thunderstorm Wind 61 E | Wichita, KS | Semi-trailer overturned at K96 and 199th St. West. |
| Jul 10, 5:55 PM CDT | Thunderstorm Wind 52 E | Colwich, KS | |
| Jul 10, 5:55 PM CDT | Thunderstorm Wind 52 E | Bentley, KS | Trees downed. |
| Jul 10, 5:55 PM CDT | Thunderstorm Wind 56 E | Bentley, KS | Pivot irrigation unit damaged. |
| Jul 10, 6:00 PM CDT | Thunderstorm Wind 52 E | Colwich, KS |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 10, 3:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 5 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Lamont, OK (KLMN), launched 12:00Z, 10.9 hours before the alert went out and 118 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
- 1709 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -112 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1447 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 13 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 13 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 73 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.7
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
498 WUUS53 KICT 102251 SVRICT KSC173-102345- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WICHITA KS 551 PM CDT WED JUL 10 2002 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN WICHITA HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... SEDGWICK COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL KANSAS * UNTIL 645 PM CDT. * AT 551 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM OVER MOUNT HOPE...OR ABOUT 18 MILES SOUTHEAST OF HUTCHINSON...MOVING SOUTH AT 35 MPH. * THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR ANDALE AROUND 600 PM CDT... NEAR GARDEN PLAIN AROUND 610 PM CDT... NEAR GODDARD AROUND 615 PM CDT... THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM IS CAPABLE OF PRODUCING WINDS UP TO 60 MILES AN HOUR... SEEK A STURDY SHELTER IMMEDIATELY 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 SEDGWICK COUNTY UNTIL 645 PM CDT. LAWSON
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 Jul 10, 4:00 PM CDT, 1 hour 51 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jul 10, 4:00 PM CDT, 1 hour 51 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WICHITA KS 400 PM CDT WED JUL 10 2002 TNGT: SCT TSTMS GOING ONCE AGN ALG SFC CONVERGENCE BOUNDARIES. ATMOS RATHER UNSTABLE WITH TRIPLE DIGIT HEAT AND 60-70 DEWPTS. SUSPECT STORMS WL DIMINISH AFT SUNSET...BUT STILL POTENTIAL FOR LINGERING/ ELEVATED STORMS OVNGT. SUSPECT TRUE FNT MAY HANG UP ACRS THE NRN SXNS TNGT...ALTHO OUTFLOW/S/ WL BE MUCH FARTHER S. THU-THU NGT: GIVEN BASICALLY ZONAL FLOW AND COMPLEX THAT WL LKLY DVLP OVR IA TNGT...SUSPECT FNT WL HANG SOMEWHERE IN THE MIDDLE OF THE FCST AREA. IN FACT WNDS ACRS THE S SHUD TURN S AS OUTFLOW BNDRY WASHES OUT. DEPENDING ON CLDS...TEMPS COULD BE EVEN WARMER...SPCLY ACRS THE S AHD OF THE FNT. TSTMS DURG THE AFT SHUD PUSH FNT THRU MOST OF AREA DURG THE EVENING. HOWEVER WITH POTENTIAL FOR TSTMS IN THE EVE ACRS THE S. JUST NOW SURE EXACTLY WHERE FNT/PCPN WL BE AT 00Z. FRI: FNT SHUD BE OUT OF THE AREA IF CURRENT MODEL RUNS ARE CORRECT. BELIEVE MRF/AVN IS TOO COOL AND LEANED TWRD THE ECMWF 850 TEMP /1000-500 THICNESS VALUES. SAT-SUN: TEMPS/THICKNESSES FM 00Z MRF AND LTST ECMWF QUITE SIMILAR THIS PERIOD...AND GENERALLY SUPPORT GOING FCST. ONLY MINOR TWEAKS MADE. MON-WED: VRY LTL IF ANY AGREEMENT WITH ENSEMBLES DURG THIS PD. THE PROBLEM STEMS FROM ORIENTATION/LOCATION OF WRN UPR RDG AND RESULTANT ERN US TROF. SOME PSBLTY THAT SHEAR AXIS AND/OR OLD FNT WL BE LURKING IN THE FCST AREA...MORE LIKELY IN SE KS. THIS MIGHT LEAD TO SCT AFTN/EVE TSRA...BUT GIVEN AMT OF UNCERTAINTY IN ENSEMBLES...NOT ABT TO PUT PCPN IN FCST ATTM. WL CONT A GRADUAL WARMING TREND THRUT THE PD. FCSTID =HOWERTON ICT 70 90 65 86 / 40 30 20 10 HUT 69 90 65 87 / 30 20 10 5 EWK 69 89 64 86 / 30 20 10 5 EQA 69 89 64 85 / 40 20 20 10 WLD 72 92 66 86 / 40 30 20 10 RSL 66 89 64 89 / 20 10 10 5 GBD 67 89 65 89 / 20 20 10 5 SLN 66 88 64 87 / 30 10 10 5 MPR 69 89 64 86 / 30 20 10 5 CFV 71 90 65 85 / 40 40 30 10 CNU 69 88 64 84 / 40 30 20 10 K88 68 88 64 84 / 40 30 20 10 .ICT... KS...NONE.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Wichita, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 10, 4:04 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Rice | 56 min |
| Jul 10, 4:28 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Greenwood | 62 min |
| Jul 10, 5:33 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Montgomery, Wilson | 57 min |
| Jul 10, 5:36 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Reno | 54 min |
| Jul 10, 6:50 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Cowley | 55 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.