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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 45, NWS Wichita, KS
NWS Wichita, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 16, 2002, 9:42 PM CDT for Rice County, Kansas. It was in force for 63 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, 9:42 PM CDT (02:42 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 16, 2002, 10:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 63 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), 87 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 02:42 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, 2.7 hours before the alert went out and 172 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 170242 SVRICT KSC159-170345- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WICHITA KS 942 PM CDT TUE APR 16 2002 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN WICHITA HAS EXTENDED THE * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... RICE COUNTY IN CENTRAL KANSAS * UNTIL 1045 PM CDT. * AT 942 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 7 MILES NORTHEAST OF NICKERSON...OR ABOUT 13 MILES NORTHWEST OF HUTCHINSON...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... THIS IS A DANGEROUS STORM. REPEATING...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING HAS BEEN ISSUED FOR RICE COUNTY UNTIL 1045 PM CDT. LAT...LON 3834 9810 3818 9813 3818 9793 3835 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, 8:40 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Ellsworth | 50 min |
| 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, 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.