Alert archive / Kansas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2002
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 310, NWS Wichita, KS
NWS Wichita, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 28, 2002, 4:53 PM CDT for Barton County, Russell County, Kansas. It was in force for 67 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
- Jul 28, 2002, 4:53 PM CDT (21:53 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 28, 2002, 6:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 67 min
- Issued by
- NWS Wichita, KS
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
Counties Barton County, KS, Russell County, KS
The radar
The Dodge City radar (KDDC), 159 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:57 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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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 28, 4:50 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 5 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 12:00Z, 9.9 hours before the alert went out and 155 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
- 375 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -184 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1494 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 6 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -2 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 103 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
615 WUUS53 KICT 282153 SVRICT KSC009-167-282300- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WICHITA KS 452 PM CDT SUN JUL 28 2002 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN WICHITA HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... RUSSELL COUNTY IN CENTRAL KANSAS BARTON COUNTY IN CENTRAL KANSAS * UNTIL 600 PM CDT. * AT 452 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS ALONG A LINE EXTENDING FROM 5 MILES WEST OF PARADISE TO 4 MILES NORTHWEST OF LORETTA...OR ALONG A LINE EXTENDING FROM 16 MILES NORTHWEST OF RUSSELL TO 14 MILES SOUTH OF HAYS...MOVING EAST AT 45 MPH. * THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE NEAR PARADISE AROUND 500 PM CDT... NEAR RUSSELL AROUND 510 PM CDT... NEAR GALATIA AROUND 520 PM CDT... THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS ARE CAPABLE OF PRODUCING HAIL UP TO THE SIZE OF QUARTERS... WINDS UP TO 70 MILES AN HOUR... SEEK A STURDY SHELTER IMMEDIATELY REPEATING...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING HAS BEEN ISSUED FOR RUSSELL AND BARTON COUNTIES UNTIL 600 PM CDT. LAT...LON 3911 9902 3860 9900 3860 9866 3910 9867 /CARUSO NNNN
The office that day
Everything else NWS Wichita, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 27, 9:33 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Russell | 57 min |
| Jul 27, 10:27 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Russell | 48 min |
| Jul 27, 11:13 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Barton | 62 min |
| Jul 28, 5:35 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Ellsworth | 55 min |
| Jul 28, 6:11 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Rice | 64 min |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Kansas, 2002Every severe thunderstorm warning in 2002
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.