Alert archive / Kansas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2002
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 331, NWS Wichita, KS
NWS Wichita, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 12, 2002, 9:05 PM CDT for Reno County, Kansas. It was in force for 55 min. 4 reports 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
- Aug 12, 2002, 9:05 PM CDT (02:05 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 12, 2002, 10:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 55 min
- Issued by
- NWS Wichita, KS
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Reno County, KS
The radar
The Wichita radar (KICT), 67 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 02:05 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 12, 9:17 PM CDT | Thunderstorm Wind 70 E | Nickerson, KS | Widespread tree and power line damage. Power outages town-wide. See 2028 CST entry for summary of the most significant damage. |
| Aug 12, 9:20 PM CDT | Thunderstorm Wind 70 E | Nickerson, KS | Trees and power lines downed. |
| Aug 12, 9:28 PM CDT | Thunderstorm Wind 87 E | Nickerson, KS | Speeds ranged from 70-87kts, inflicting widespread tree and power line damage. The following were destroyed: One single-family home, three mobile homes, and a shed that was scattered amongst a grove of trees. The following sustained major damage: Two single-fa |
| Aug 12, 10:00 PM CDT | Thunderstorm Wind 65 E | Hutchinson, KS | Occurred at intersection of Highway 50/K-96. Nearby, 26 empty Union Pacific freight cars, of which 24 were covered hoppers and two were auto-carriers, were blown off a siding. Two mobile homes were destroyed. Three single-family homes (of which one was unroofe |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 12, 3:30 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 7 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Lamont, OK (KLMN), launched 00:00Z, 2.1 hours before the alert went out and 168 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
- 3086 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -22 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1535 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 34 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 50 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 167 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.9
- Supercell composite
- 13.3
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
836 WUUS53 KICT 130205 SVRICT KSC155-130300- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WICHITA KS 905 PM CDT MON AUG 12 2002 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN WICHITA HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... RENO COUNTY IN KANSAS * UNTIL 1000 PM CDT. * AT 905 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 4 MILES SOUTHEAST OF STERLING...OR ABOUT 15 MILES NORTHWEST OF HUTCHINSON...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 25 MPH. * THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR NICKERSON AROUND 910 PM CDT... NEAR HUTCHINSON AROUND 930 PM CDT... 7 MILES SOUTHWEST OF BUHLER AROUND 940 PM CDT... 7 MILES NORTHEAST OF HAVEN AROUND 955 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... VERY HEAVY RAINFALL...WHICH MAY CAUSE LOCALIZED FLOODING... THIS IS A DANGEROUS STORM. REPEATING...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING HAS BEEN ISSUED FOR RENO COUNTY UNTIL 1000 PM CDT. LAT...LON 3817 9815 3811 9826 3778 9771 3815 9771 /COX NNNN
The office that day
Everything else NWS Wichita, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 12, 7:13 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Ellsworth | 62 min |
| Aug 12, 7:31 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Rice | 59 min |
| Aug 12, 8:22 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | ICT | Rice | 6 hr |
| Aug 12, 8:26 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Rice | 64 min |
| Aug 12, 8:48 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ICT | Rice | 27 min |
| Aug 12, 9:10 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ICT | Rice | 35 min |
| Aug 12, 9:26 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | McPherson | 64 min |
| Aug 12, 9:31 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ICT | Reno | 59 min |
| Aug 12, 10:14 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Kingman | 61 min |
| Aug 12, 10:21 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Harvey, Sedgwick | 84 min |
| Aug 12, 10:27 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Reno | 33 min |
| Aug 12, 10:53 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Sumner | 67 min |
| Aug 12, 11:07 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Butler | 83 min |
| Aug 12, 11:46 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Reno | 59 min |
| Aug 12, 11:49 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Ellsworth | 56 min |
| Aug 13, 12:00 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Sumner | 30 min |
| Aug 13, 12:06 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Cowley | 84 min |
| Aug 13, 12:50 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | ICT | Ellsworth, Rice | 6 hr |
| Aug 13, 1:48 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | ICT | Reno | 6 hr |
| Aug 13, 6:54 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | ICT | Rice | 5 hr |
| Aug 13, 7:56 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | ICT | Reno | 6 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.