Alert archive / Kansas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2002
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 41, NWS Wichita, KS
NWS Wichita, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 16, 2002, 8:45 PM CDT for Rice County, Kansas. It was in force for 60 min. 2 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
- Apr 16, 2002, 8:45 PM CDT (01:45 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 16, 2002, 9:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 60 min
- Issued by
- NWS Wichita, KS
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Rice County, KS
The radar
The Wichita radar (KICT), 107 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:47 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 16, 8:57 PM CDT | Hail 0.88 | Lyons, KS | |
| Apr 16, 9:00 PM CDT | Hail 0.75 | Chase, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 16, 7:15 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 5 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 00:00Z, 1.8 hours before the alert went out and 164 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 170145 SVRICT KSC159-170245- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WICHITA KS 845 PM CDT TUE APR 16 2002 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN WICHITA HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... RICE COUNTY IN CENTRAL KANSAS * UNTIL 945 PM CDT. * AT 845 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 6 MILES NORTHEAST OF CHASE...OR ABOUT 29 MILES EAST OF GREAT BEND...MOVING EAST AT 30 MPH. * THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR LYONS AROUND 900 PM CDT... NEAR LITTLE RIVER AROUND 920 PM CDT... 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 RICE COUNTY UNTIL 945 PM CDT. LAT...LON 3851 9836 3831 9843 3820 9797 3850 9795 /OMITT NNNN
The office that day
Everything else NWS Wichita, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 16, 8:40 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Ellsworth | 50 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
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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.