Severe Thunderstorm Warning 87, NWS Wichita, KS

Issued

Apr 19, 2002, 3:32 PM CDT (20:32 UTC)

Expired

Apr 19, 2002, 4:15 PM CDT

In force

43 min

Issued by

NWS Wichita, KS

Area

Counties, with a storm outline in the text

Counties Allen County, KS, Neosho County, KS

The Pleasant Hill radar (KEAX), 147 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:35 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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Not verified. The Iowa Environmental Mesonet's Cow found no qualifying storm report inside this severe thunderstorm warning while it was in force. That is not proof nothing happened: reports are thin where few people live.

Cow counts a report within 15 km of the polygon while the warning was in force: a tornado for a tornado warning; hail of 1 inch or more, a gust of 58 mph or more or wind damage for a severe thunderstorm warning; a flash flood report for a flash flood warning.

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

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN WICHITA HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  ALLEN COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST KANSAS
  NORTHWEST NEOSHO COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST KANSAS

* UNTIL 415 PM CDT.

* AT 330 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM OVER (CNU)JOHN...OR ABOUT 2 MILES SOUTHWEST OF
  CHANUTE...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 50 MPH.

* THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE
  NEAR MORAN AROUND 350 PM CDT...

THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM IS CAPABLE OF PRODUCING
  HAIL UP TO THE SIZE OF PENNIES...

FOR YOUR PROTECTION...MOVE TO AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF
YOUR HOME OR BUSINESS.

REPEATING...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING HAS BEEN ISSUED FOR ALLEN
AND NEOSHO COUNTIES UNTIL 415 PM CDT.

LAT...LON 3776 9510 3755 9552 3774 9551 3794 9516

LAWSON

NWS Wichita, KS wrote its last area forecast discussion before this severe thunderstorm warning went out at Apr 19, 10:42 AM CDT, 4 hours 50 minutes earlier.

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WICHITA KS
1042 AM CDT FRI APR 19 2002

SFC CDFNT HAS SLOWED SEWD MOVMT AT LATE MRNG...AND AT 15Z WAS JUST
N OF A WLD TO IOLA LN. COLD AIR HAS SETTLED ACRS CNTRL KS WITH TEMPS
IN THE 40S. LAPS SOUNDING SHOWD VRY STABLE AIRMASS ACRS THIS AREA
WITH MSTR LKLY TO RMN TRAPPED BLO FNTL INVERSION...KEEPING STRATUS
IN TACT THRU MOST OF THE DAY. THEREFORE XPCT TEMPS TO MOV LTL INTO
THE AFTN...WITH DOWNWARD TWEAK XPCTD IN GRIDDED TEMPS/ZFP.

AREA OF ELEVATED INSTBY/CAPE WL EXIST JUST N OF SFC FNTL BNDRY ACRS
PTNS OF SCNTRL KS INVOF ICT. HOWEVER IN THE ABSENCE OF A SGFNT
FORCING/LIFTG MECHANISM...THERE IS MINIMAL CHCS FOR THE POTNL INSTBY
TO BE REALIZED. WL ONLY KEEP A SLGT CHC OF TSRA IN THE ICT AREA.

BETTER CHCS FOR CNVTN WL RESIDE ACRS SERN KS...ESPCLY IF CLOUDS CAN
BRK FOR ADDED INSOLATION/HTG. MODIFIED LAPS SOUNDINGS WOULD SUGGEST
CAPES ARND 2000 J/KG FOR AREAS S AND E OF A WLD-CNU LN THIS AFTN.
WL HILITE THIS AREA IN HWO FOR SVR POTNL AND CONT HIER POPS THERE.

UPDATED GRIDS/FCST TO COME ARND 1630Z.

DARMOFAL

.ICT...NONE.

In the hours before

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HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WICHITA KS
1245 PM CDT FRI APR 19 2002

...ISOLATED SEVERE STORMS POSSIBLE LATE THIS AFTERNOON...

A COLD FRONT WILL SINK GRADUALLY SOUTH ACROSS SOUTHEAST
KANSAS DURING THE AFTERNOON. THE AIRMASS NEAR THIS FRONT
REMAINS VERY MOIST AND UNSTABLE. SURFACE HEATING LATER
IN THE AFTERNOON MAY BE SUFFICIENT FOR THUNDERSTORM
DEVELOPMENT ALONG THE FRONT ACROSS SOUTHEAST KANSAS.

WIND SHEAR PROFILES AND INSTABILITY WILL BE SUFFICIENT
FOR A FEW SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS. THE MAIN THREAT FROM ANY
STORMS THAT DEVELOP WILL BE LARGE HAIL. LOCALIZED DAMAGING
WIND GUSTS ARE ALSO POSSIBLE. LOCALLY HEAVY RAINFALL IS
ALSO POSSIBLE FROM ANY THUNDERSTORMS.

ALTHOUGH A WIDESPREAD SEVERE EVENT IS NOT
ANTICIPATED...THERE IS A POSSIBILITY OF SPOTTER
ACTIVATION DURING THE LATE AFTERNOON AND EARLY EVENING.
THE AREA PRIMARILY AFFECTED WOULD BE GENERALLY SOUTH
AND EAST OF A LINE...FROM WINFIELD TO HOWARD...TO YATES
CENTER.

KED

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Kansas, 2002Every severe thunderstorm warning in 2002

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.