Alert archive / Kansas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2002
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 40, NWS Wichita, KS
NWS Wichita, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 16, 2002, 8:40 PM CDT for Ellsworth County, Kansas. It was in force for 50 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
- Apr 16, 2002, 8:40 PM CDT (01:40 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 16, 2002, 9:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 50 min
- Issued by
- NWS Wichita, KS
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Ellsworth County, KS
The radar
The Wichita radar (KICT), 131 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:42 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.
The watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 16, 7:15 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 5 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 00:00Z, 1.7 hours before the alert went out and 187 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 4400 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 36 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 102 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 165 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WUUS53 KICT 170140 SVRICT KSC053-170230- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WICHITA KS 839 PM CDT TUE APR 16 2002 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN WICHITA HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... ELLSWORTH COUNTY IN CENTRAL KANSAS * UNTIL 930 PM CDT. * AT 839 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 5 MILES NORTH OF KANOPOLIS...OR ABOUT 23 MILES WEST OF SALINA...MOVING EAST AT 30 MPH. THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM IS CAPABLE OF PRODUCING HAIL UP TO THE SIZE OF PENNIES... WINDS UP TO 60 MILES AN HOUR... SEEK A STURDY SHELTER IMMEDIATELY REPEATING...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING HAS BEEN ISSUED FOR ELLSWORTH COUNTY UNTIL 930 PM CDT. LAT...LON 3879 9817 3855 9835 3856 9796 3886 9794 /OMITT NNNN
The office that day
Everything else NWS Wichita, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 16, 8:45 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Rice | 60 min |
| Apr 16, 8:47 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Saline | 58 min |
| Apr 16, 9:31 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | McPherson | 59 min |
| Apr 16, 9:33 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Reno | 57 min |
| Apr 16, 9:42 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Rice | 63 min |
| Apr 16, 10:18 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Reno | 57 min |
| Apr 16, 10:23 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | McPherson | 37 min |
| Apr 16, 10:56 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Harvey, Sedgwick | 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.