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Tornado Warning 15, NWS Wichita, KS

May 5, 2002Lincoln County, Kansas

NWS Wichita, KS issued this tornado warning at May 5, 2002, 7:13 PM CDT for Lincoln County, Kansas. It was in force for 62 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 5, 2002, 7:13 PM CDT (00:13 UTC)
Expired: May 5, 2002, 8:15 PM CDT
In force: 62 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), 150 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:14 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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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, 7:20 PM CDT	Tornado F0	Beverly, KS	Shed damaged.

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

Topeka, KS (KTOP), launched 00:00Z, 0.2 hours before the alert went out and 206 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: 1298 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -86 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1520 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 47 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 42 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 88 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.2
Supercell composite: 2.3

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The text

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

000 
WFUS53 KICT 060013
TORICT
KSC105-060115-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WICHITA KS
713 PM CDT SUN MAY 5 2002

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN WICHITA HAS EXTENDED THE

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

* UNTIL 815 PM CDT

* AT 713 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  DEVELOPING TORNADO 24 MILES NORTHWEST OF SALINA...OR 3 MILES
  SOUTHWEST OF BEVERLY. THIS DANGEROUS STORM IS MOVING EAST AT 30
  MPH.

THIS IS A VERY DANGEROUS STORM...CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A LARGE
TORNADO. MOVE INTO YOUR TORNADO SHELTER NOW THIS IS A DANGEROUS
STORM. 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 LINCOLN COUNTY
UNTIL 815 PM CDT.

LAT...LON 3908 9809 3889 9807 3888 9794 3912 9795

/CHANCE

NNNN

The office that day

Everything else NWS Wichita, KS issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
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, 5:01 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	McPherson	59 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.