Alert archive / Kansas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2002
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 96, NWS Wichita, KS
NWS Wichita, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 6, 2002, 5:01 PM CDT for McPherson County, Kansas. It was in force for 59 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
- May 6, 2002, 5:01 PM CDT (22:01 UTC)
- Expired
- May 6, 2002, 6:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 59 min
- Issued by
- NWS Wichita, KS
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County McPherson County, KS
The radar
The Wichita radar (KICT), 75 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:03 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 6, 5:05 PM CDT | Hail 1.75 | Galva, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 6, 5:00 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Topeka, KS (KTOP), launched 12:00Z, 10.0 hours before the alert went out and 183 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
- 1767 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -131 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 578 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 48 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 421 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 579 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 2.6
- Supercell composite
- 34.9
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WUUS53 KICT 062201 SVRICT KSC113-062300- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WICHITA KS 501 PM CDT MON MAY 6 2002 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN WICHITA HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... MCPHERSON COUNTY IN CENTRAL KANSAS * UNTIL 600 PM CDT. * AT 501 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 4 MILES SOUTHEAST OF GALVA...OR ABOUT 26 MILES WEST OF MARION...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 20 MPH. * THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR CANTON AROUND 510 PM CDT... THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM IS CAPABLE OF PRODUCING HAIL UP TO THE SIZE OF QUARTERS... WINDS UP TO 60 MILES AN HOUR... A TORNADO WATCH IS ALSO IN EFFECT FOR THE WARNED AREA. SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS CAN PRODUCE TORNADOES WITH LITTLE OR NO ADVANCE WARNING. REPEATING...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING HAS BEEN ISSUED FOR MCPHERSON COUNTY UNTIL 600 PM CDT. LAT...LON 3835 9771 3819 9761 3823 9739 3849 9738 /COX NNNN
The office that day
Everything else NWS Wichita, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 5, 7:13 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ICT | Lincoln | 62 min |
| May 5, 7:19 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ICT | Saline | 56 min |
| May 5, 7:23 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ICT | Ellsworth | 67 min |
| May 5, 8:17 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ICT | Saline | 58 min |
| May 5, 8:38 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Barton | 67 min |
| May 6, 5:09 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Marion | 66 min |
| May 6, 6:34 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | McPherson | 56 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.