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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 85, NWS Wichita, KS

April 19, 2002Lincoln County, Kansas

NWS Wichita, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 19, 2002, 1:02 AM CDT for Lincoln County, Kansas. It was in force for 43 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 19, 2002, 1:02 AM CDT (06:02 UTC)
Expired
Apr 19, 2002, 1:45 AM CDT
In force
43 min
Issued by
NWS Wichita, KS
Area
Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Lincoln County, KS

The radar

The Grand Island radar (KUEX), 131 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 06:02 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

TimeReportWhereRemark
Apr 19, 1:02 AM CDTHail 0.75Hunter, KS
Apr 19, 1:30 AM CDTHail 0.75Barnard, 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 nearest sounding before it

Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 00:00Z, 6.0 hours before the alert went out and 209 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.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Dodge City, at 00:00Z on 2002-04-19Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Dodge City, at 00:00Z on 2002-04-19The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 73 square meters per square second.1939587897117136Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.
Mixed-layer CAPE
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
5990 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
50 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
73 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
103 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
WUUS53 KICT 190602
SVRICT
KSC105-190645-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WICHITA KS
102 AM CDT FRI APR 19 2002

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN WICHITA HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  LINCOLN COUNTY IN CENTRAL KANSAS

* UNTIL 145 AM CDT.

* AT 102 AM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 5 MILES SOUTHEAST OF ASH GROVE...OR ABOUT 31
  MILES SOUTHEAST OF OSBORNE...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 30 MPH.

* THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE
  NEAR BARNARD AROUND 125 AM CDT...

THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM IS CAPABLE OF PRODUCING
  HAIL UP TO THE SIZE OF QUARTERS...
  WINDS UP TO 60 MILES AN HOUR...

THE STORM HAS A HISTORY OF PRODUCING DAMAGING WINDS AND LARGE HAIL.
THIS IS A DANGEROUS STORM. SEEK A STURDY SHELTER IMMEDIATELY

THIS IS AN EXTENSION OF THE SEVERE TUHNDERSTORM WARNING ISSUED FOR 
LINCOLN COUNTY AT 12 MIDNIGHT.

REPEATING...A NEW SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING HAS BEEN ISSUED FOR 
LINCOLN COUNTY UNTIL 145 AM CDT.

LAT...LON 3915 9844 3900 9833 3915 9798 3929 9811

/ES

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The office that day

Everything else NWS Wichita, KS issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Apr 18, 7:02 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningICTRice43 min
Apr 18, 7:26 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningICTMcPherson64 min
Apr 18, 7:43 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningICTRice62 min
Apr 18, 8:19 PM CDTTornado WarningICTMcPherson41 min
Apr 18, 8:23 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningICTMarion67 min
Apr 18, 9:06 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningICTChase39 min
Apr 18, 9:56 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningICTMcPherson, Marion49 min
Apr 18, 10:44 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningICTMarion61 min
Apr 18, 11:10 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningICTChase65 min
Apr 18, 11:17 PM CDTTornado WarningICTChase28 min
Apr 18, 11:30 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningICTRussell60 min
Apr 18, 11:36 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningICTSaline39 min
Apr 18, 11:45 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningICTChase60 min
Apr 19, 12:01 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningICTLincoln59 min
Apr 19, 1:17 AM CDTTornado WarningICTLincoln28 min
Apr 19, 3:25 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningICTWilson35 min
Apr 19, 3:32 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningICTAllen, Neosho43 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.