Alert archive / Kansas / Tornado Warnings in 2002
Tornado Warning 20, NWS Wichita, KS
NWS Wichita, KS issued this tornado warning at May 7, 2002, 5:27 PM CDT for Sumner County, Kansas. It was in force for 63 min. 6 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 7, 2002, 5:27 PM CDT (22:27 UTC)
- Expired
- May 7, 2002, 6:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 63 min
- Issued by
- NWS Wichita, KS
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Sumner County, KS
The radar
The Wichita radar (KICT), 53 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:28 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 7, 5:33 PM CDT | Hail 1.75 | Milan, KS | |
| May 7, 5:39 PM CDT | Hail 0.75 | Mayfield, KS | |
| May 7, 5:40 PM CDT | Hail 1.75 | Mayfield, KS | |
| May 7, 5:48 PM CDT | Hail 1.25 | Mayfield, KS | |
| May 7, 6:07 PM CDT | Hail 1.75 | Wellington, KS | |
| May 7, 6:35 PM CDT | Hail 1.25 | Wellington, 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 7, 4:00 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 12:00Z, 10.5 hours before the alert went out and 217 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
- 1217 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -347 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1311 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 42 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 106 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 118 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.3
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WFUS53 KICT 072227 TORICT KSC191-072330- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WICHITA KS 527 PM CDT TUE MAY 7 2002 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN WICHITA HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... SUMNER COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL KANSAS * UNTIL 630 PM CDT * AT 527 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WITH STRONG ROTATION 38 MILES WEST OF ARKANSAS CITY...OR 9 MILES SOUTH OF ARGONIA...MOVING EAST AT 40 MPH. THIS STORM COULD PRODUCE A TORNADO AT ANY TIME. * THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE 9 MILES NORTH OF CALDWELL AROUND 530 PM CDT... NEAR MAYFIELD AROUND 540 PM CDT... 11 MILES NORTH OF SOUTH HAVEN AROUND 545 PM CDT... NEAR WELLINGTON AROUND 550 PM CDT... 10 MILES SOUTH OF BELLE PLAINE AROUND 605 PM CDT... THIS REPLACES THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING PREVIOUSLY ISSUED FOR THE WARNED AREA. THIS IS A DANGEROUS STORM. MOVE INTO YOUR TORNADO SHELTER NOW REPEATING...A TORNADO WARNING HAS BEEN ISSUED FOR SUMNER COUNTY UNTIL 630 PM CDT. LAT...LON 3722 9778 3701 9777 3703 9717 3743 9727 /COX NNNN
The office that day
Everything else NWS Wichita, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 6, 7:03 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Saline | 57 min |
| May 6, 7:06 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Rice | 54 min |
| May 6, 7:14 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Marion | 61 min |
| May 6, 7:58 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Rice | 62 min |
| May 6, 8:07 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ICT | Marion | 53 min |
| May 6, 8:40 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Chase | 65 min |
| May 6, 9:38 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Marion | 52 min |
| May 6, 10:10 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Chase | 65 min |
| May 7, 2:09 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Wilson | 51 min |
| May 7, 2:15 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Neosho | 45 min |
| May 7, 3:06 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Chautauqua | 39 min |
| May 7, 3:43 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Chautauqua | 62 min |
| May 7, 4:08 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Montgomery | 67 min |
| May 7, 4:30 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Labette | 60 min |
| May 7, 4:35 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Harper | 40 min |
| May 7, 4:56 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Sumner | 64 min |
| May 7, 5:14 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Harper | 31 min |
| May 7, 6:15 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Cowley | 60 min |
| May 7, 6:30 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Sumner | 30 min |
| May 7, 6:31 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ICT | Cowley | 59 min |
| May 7, 6:48 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Butler | 57 min |
| May 7, 6:49 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Harvey | 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.