Alert archive / Kansas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2002
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 82, NWS Wichita, KS
NWS Wichita, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 18, 2002, 11:36 PM CDT for Saline County, Kansas. It was in force for 39 min. 1 report 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 18, 2002, 11:36 PM CDT (04:36 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 19, 2002, 12:15 AM CDT
- In force
- 39 min
- Issued by
- NWS Wichita, KS
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Saline County, KS
The radar
The Topeka radar (KTWX), 105 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 04:38 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 18, 11:42 PM CDT | Hail 0.75 | New Cambria, 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 18, 9:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 5 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Topeka, KS (KTOP), launched 00:00Z, 4.6 hours before the alert went out and 156 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
- 159 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -124 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 2584 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 34 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 45 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 137 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.6
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WUUS53 KICT 190436 SVRICT KSC169-190515- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WICHITA KS 1136 PM CDT THU APR 18 2002 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN WICHITA HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... SALINE COUNTY IN CENTRAL KANSAS * UNTIL 1215 AM CDT. * AT 1136 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 7 MILES SOUTHEAST OF NEW CAMBRIA...OR ABOUT 11 MILES EAST OF SALINA...MOVING EAST AT 35 MPH. THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM IS CAPABLE OF PRODUCING HAIL UP TO THE SIZE OF QUARTERS... WINDS UP TO 60 MILES AN HOUR... THIS IS A DANGEROUS STORM. SEEK A STURDY SHELTER IMMEDIATELY REPEATING...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING HAS BEEN ISSUED FOR SALINE COUNTY UNTIL 1215 AM CDT. LAT...LON 3888 9753 3872 9744 3874 9732 3890 9732 /ES NNNN
The office that day
Everything else NWS Wichita, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 18, 7:02 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Rice | 43 min |
| Apr 18, 7:26 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | McPherson | 64 min |
| Apr 18, 7:43 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Rice | 62 min |
| Apr 18, 8:19 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ICT | McPherson | 41 min |
| Apr 18, 8:23 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Marion | 67 min |
| Apr 18, 9:06 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Chase | 39 min |
| Apr 18, 9:56 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | McPherson, Marion | 49 min |
| Apr 18, 10:44 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Marion | 61 min |
| Apr 18, 11:10 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Chase | 65 min |
| Apr 18, 11:17 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ICT | Chase | 28 min |
| Apr 18, 11:30 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Russell | 60 min |
| Apr 18, 11:45 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Chase | 60 min |
| Apr 19, 12:01 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Lincoln | 59 min |
| Apr 19, 1:02 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Lincoln | 43 min |
| Apr 19, 1:17 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | ICT | Lincoln | 28 min |
| Apr 19, 3:25 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Wilson | 35 min |
| Apr 19, 3:32 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Allen, Neosho | 43 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.