Alert archive / Kansas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2002
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 9, NWS Wichita, KS
NWS Wichita, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 8, 2002, 7:55 PM CST for Harvey County, Sedgwick County, Kansas. It was in force for 65 min. 9 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, 7:55 PM CST (01:55 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 8, 2002, 9:00 PM CST
- In force
- 65 min
- Issued by
- NWS Wichita, KS
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
Counties Harvey County, KS, Sedgwick County, KS
The radar
The Wichita radar (KICT), 30 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:57 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, 8:00 PM CST | Thunderstorm Wind 52 E | Wichita, KS | Fallen limbs damaged cars at Wichita State. A fence surrounding Levitt Arena was damaged. Limbs hitting power lines severed power to 265 residences. |
| Mar 8, 8:28 PM CST | Hail 1 | Newton, KS | |
| Mar 8, 8:30 PM CST | Hail 0.75 | Andale, KS | |
| Mar 8, 8:38 PM CST | Hail 1 | Newton, KS | |
| Mar 8, 8:43 PM CST | Thunderstorm Wind 53 M | Wichita, KS | Mid-Continent Airport. |
| Mar 8, 8:43 PM CST | Hail 1 | Sedgwick, KS | |
| Mar 8, 8:44 PM CST | Thunderstorm Wind 50 M | Wichita, KS | North Wichita. |
| Mar 8, 8:58 PM CST | Thunderstorm Wind 56 E | Maize, KS | |
| Mar 8, 9:00 PM CST | Thunderstorm Wind 56 E | Newton, KS | Downed power lines severed power to approximately 155-160 residences. |
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 |
| Mar 8, 4:00 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Lamont, OK (KLMN), launched 00:00Z, 1.9 hours before the alert went out and 144 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 090155 SVRICT KSC079-173-090300- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WICHITA KS 753 PM CST FRI MAR 8 2002 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN WICHITA HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... HARVEY COUNTY IN KANSAS SEDGWICK COUNTY IN KANSAS * UNTIL 900 PM CST. * AT 752 PM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS ALONG A LINE EXTENDING FROM 10 MILES WEST OF NEWTON TO 30 MILES WEST OF WICHITA...MOVING EAST AT 35 MPH. * THE SEVERE STORMS WILL BE NEAR HESSTON AROUND 800 PM CST... NEAR ANDALE AROUND 805 PM CST... NEAR BENTLEY AROUND 810 PM CST... NEAR NORTH NEWTON AROUND 815 PM CST... NEAR SEDGWICK AROUND 820 PM CST... WEST WICHITA AROUND 830 PM CST... THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS ARE CAPABLE OF PRODUCING HAIL UP TO THE SIZE OF PENNIES... WINDS UP TO 60 MILES AN HOUR... THE STORMS HAVE A HISTORY OF PRODUCING DAMAGING WINDS AND LARGE HAIL. 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 HARVEY AND SEDGWICK COUNTIES UNTIL 900 PM CST. LAT...LON 3815 9768 3758 9769 3757 9729 3814 9717 /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, 7:30 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Kingman | 60 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.