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Tornado Warning 10, NWS Wichita, KS

April 19, 2002Lincoln County, Kansas

NWS Wichita, KS issued this tornado warning at Apr 19, 2002, 1:17 AM CDT for Lincoln County, Kansas. It was in force for 28 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 19, 2002, 1:17 AM CDT (06:17 UTC)
Expired: Apr 19, 2002, 1:45 AM CDT
In force: 28 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), 129 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 06:20 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 19, 1:30 AM CDT	Hail 0.75	Barnard, 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

Topeka, KS (KTOP), launched 00:00Z, 6.3 hours before the alert went out and 211 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 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

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

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

000 
WFUS53 KICT 190617
TORICT
KSC105-190645-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WICHITA KS
117 AM CDT FRI APR 19 2002

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN WICHITA HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  LINCOLN COUNTY IN CENTRAL KANSAS

* UNTIL 145 AM CDT

* AT 117 AM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WITH STRONG ROTATION 34 MILES SOUTHWEST OF
  CONCORDIA...OR OVER BARNARD...MOVING EAST AT 35 MPH. THIS STORM
  COULD PRODUCE A TORNADO AT ANY TIME.

THIS REPLACES THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING PREVIOUSLY ISSUED FOR 
LINCOLN COUNTY AT 102 AM CDT.

THIS IS A DANGEROUS STORM. MOVE INTO YOUR TORNADO SHELTER NOW STAY
AWAY FROM WINDOWS.

REPEATING...A TORNADO WARNING HAS BEEN ISSUED FOR LINCOLN COUNTY
UNTIL 145 AM CDT.

LAT...LON 3925 9817 3908 9810 3912 9795 3930 9798

/ES

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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, 11:36 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Saline	39 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, 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.