Alert archive / Kansas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2002
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 8, NWS Wichita, KS
NWS Wichita, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 8, 2002, 7:30 PM CST for Kingman County, Kansas. It was in force for 60 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
- Mar 8, 2002, 7:30 PM CST (01:30 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 8, 2002, 8:30 PM CST
- In force
- 60 min
- Issued by
- NWS Wichita, KS
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Kingman County, KS
The radar
The Wichita radar (KICT), 59 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:32 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 8, 7:38 PM CST | Hail 1 | Kingman, KS | |
| Mar 8, 7:45 PM CST | Thunderstorm Wind 61 E | Kingman, KS | Power lines and power poles downed on west side of town along highway 54. |
| Mar 8, 7:53 PM CST | Thunderstorm Wind 53 M | Kingman, KS | Measured by KSN weather lab at Kingman elementary school. |
| Mar 8, 8:17 PM CST | Hail 0.75 | Kingman, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 8, 4:00 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Lamont, OK (KLMN), launched 00:00Z, 1.5 hours before the alert went out and 126 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
- 814 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -189 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 967 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 62 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 457 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 507 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.2
- Supercell composite
- 2.1
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WUUS53 KICT 090130 SVRICT KSC095-090230- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WICHITA KS 730 PM CST FRI MAR 8 2002 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN WICHITA HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... KINGMAN COUNTY IN KANSAS * UNTIL 830 PM CST. * AT 727 PM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 7 MILES SOUTHEAST OF PENALOSA...OR ABOUT 7 MILES WEST OF KINGMAN...MOVING EAST AT 40 MPH. * THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR KINGMAN AROUND 735 PM CST... THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM IS CAPABLE OF PRODUCING HAIL UP TO THE SIZE OF QUARTERS... 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 KINGMAN COUNTY UNTIL 830 PM CST. LAT...LON 3771 9825 3752 9834 3752 9784 3772 9790 /DARMOFAL NNNN
The office that day
Everything else NWS Wichita, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 8, 6:15 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Barton | 45 min |
| Mar 8, 6:18 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Lincoln | 42 min |
| Mar 8, 6:47 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Ellsworth | 43 min |
| Mar 8, 6:59 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Rice | 46 min |
| Mar 8, 7:14 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Reno | 46 min |
| Mar 8, 7:19 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | McPherson, Saline | 56 min |
| Mar 8, 7:55 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Harvey, Sedgwick | 65 min |
| Mar 8, 8:00 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Reno | 30 min |
| Mar 8, 8:03 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Marion | 57 min |
| Mar 8, 8:07 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Harper | 68 min |
| Mar 8, 8:36 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Sumner | 54 min |
| Mar 8, 8:42 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Butler | 63 min |
| Mar 8, 8:56 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Sedgwick | 34 min |
| Mar 8, 9:15 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Cowley | 75 min |
| Mar 8, 9:25 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Sumner | 35 min |
| Mar 8, 9:33 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Greenwood | 72 min |
| Mar 8, 9:41 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Butler | 34 min |
| Mar 8, 9:54 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Chautauqua, Elk | 81 min |
| Mar 8, 10:25 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Wilson, Woodson | 65 min |
| Mar 8, 10:55 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Allen, Neosho | 65 min |
| Mar 8, 10:56 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Montgomery | 64 min |
| Mar 8, 11:18 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Labette | 57 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.