Alert archive / Kansas / Tornado Warnings in 2002
Tornado Warning 11, NWS Wichita, KS
NWS Wichita, KS issued this tornado warning at May 5, 2002, 5:08 PM CDT for Russell County, Kansas. It was in force for 52 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
- May 5, 2002, 5:08 PM CDT (22:08 UTC)
- Expired
- May 5, 2002, 6:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 52 min
- Issued by
- NWS Wichita, KS
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Russell County, KS
The radar
The Grand Island radar (KUEX), 146 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:08 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 5, 5:08 PM CDT | Tornado F1 | Paradise, KS | Damaged outbuildings and power lines. |
| May 5, 5:17 PM CDT | Tornado F0 | Waldo, KS | Brief touchdown. |
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 5, 2:45 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 12:00Z, 10.1 hours before the alert went out and 168 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
- 282 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -438 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1423 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 40 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 68 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 77 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WFUS53 KICT 052208 TORICT KSC167-052300- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WICHITA KS 504 PM CDT SUN MAY 5 2002 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN WICHITA HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... RUSSELL COUNTY IN CENTRAL KANSAS * UNTIL 600 PM CDT * AT 504 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WITH STRONG ROTATION 13 MILES NORTHWEST OF RUSSELL...OR 10 MILES SOUTHEAST OF NATOMA...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 20 MPH. THIS STORM COULD PRODUCE A TORNADO AT ANY TIME. * THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE 7 MILES NORTHWEST OF LURAY AROUND 535 PM CDT... THIS REPLACES THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING PREVIOUSLY ISSUED FOR THE WARNED AREA. THIS IS A VERY DANGEROUS STORM...CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A LARGE TORNADO. MOVE INTO YOUR TORNADO SHELTER NOW REPORT SEVERE WEATHER TO THE NEAREST LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCY. THEY WILL RELAY YOUR REPORT TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE. REPEATING...A TORNADO WARNING HAS BEEN ISSUED FOR RUSSELL COUNTY UNTIL 600 PM CDT. LAT...LON 3913 9903 3892 9901 3895 9866 3912 9862 /CHANCE NNNN
The office that day
Everything else NWS Wichita, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 5, 4:46 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Russell | 29 min |
| May 5, 5:57 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ICT | Russell | 63 min |
| May 5, 6:10 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ICT | Lincoln | 65 min |
| May 5, 6:56 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ICT | Russell | 64 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.