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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 366, NWS Wichita, KS
NWS Wichita, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Sep 18, 2002, 8:58 PM CDT for Cowley County, Kansas. It was in force for 32 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
- Sep 18, 2002, 8:58 PM CDT (01:58 UTC)
- Expired
- Sep 18, 2002, 9:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 32 min
- Issued by
- NWS Wichita, KS
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Cowley County, KS
The radar
The Wichita radar (KICT), 99 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 02:01 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 18, 3:55 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Lamont, OK (KLMN), launched 00:00Z, 2.0 hours before the alert went out and 98 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
- 3017 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -71 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1725 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 33 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 186 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 316 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 1.0
- Supercell composite
- 7.7
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
509 WUUS53 KICT 190158 SVRICT KSC035-190230- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WICHITA KS 859 PM CDT WED SEP 18 2002 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN WICHITA HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... COWLEY COUNTY IN KANSAS * UNTIL 930 PM CDT. * AT 859 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 3 MILES WEST OF CEDAR VALE...OR ABOUT 27 MILES EAST OF ARKANSAS CITY...MOVING EAST AT 25 MPH. THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM IS CAPABLE OF PRODUCING HAIL UP TO THE SIZE OF PENNIES... WINDS UP TO 60 MILES AN HOUR... THE STORM HAS A HISTORY OF PRODUCING DAMAGING WINDS AND LARGE HAIL. 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 COWLEY COUNTY UNTIL 930 PM CDT. LAT...LON 3704 9651 3702 9660 3719 9668 3721 9651 /LAWSON NNNN
The office that day
Everything else NWS Wichita, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 18, 7:22 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Elk | 53 min |
| Sep 18, 7:54 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Cowley | 66 min |
| Sep 18, 8:23 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Wilson | 67 min |
| Sep 18, 9:01 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Chautauqua | 59 min |
| Sep 18, 9:03 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Neosho | 57 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.