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Tornado Warning 21, NWS Wichita, KS

May 7, 2002Cowley County, Kansas

NWS Wichita, KS issued this tornado warning at May 7, 2002, 6:31 PM CDT for Cowley 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 7, 2002, 6:31 PM CDT (23:31 UTC)
Expired: May 7, 2002, 7:30 PM CDT
In force: 59 min
Issued by: NWS Wichita, KS
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Cowley County, KS

The radar

The Wichita radar (KICT), 49 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:33 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, 6:53 PM CDT	Hail 1.25	Winfield, 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 12:00Z, 11.5 hours before the alert went out and 222 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: 77 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -576 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1525 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 46 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -7 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 71 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.7

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

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

000 
WFUS53 KICT 072331
TORICT
KSC035-080030-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WICHITA KS
631 PM CDT TUE MAY 7 2002

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN WICHITA HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  COWLEY COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL KANSAS

* UNTIL 730 PM CDT

* AT 631 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WITH STRONG ROTATION 15 MILES NORTH OF ARKANSAS
  CITY...OR OVER OXFORD...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 20 MPH. THIS STORM
  COULD PRODUCE A TORNADO AT ANY TIME.

* THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE
  OVER RURAL AREAS OF COWLEY COUNTY...

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 COWLEY COUNTY UNTIL
730 PM CDT.

LAT...LON 3735 9712 3722 9712 3732 9689 3744 9701

/CARUSO

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, 5:27 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	ICT	Sumner	63 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, 6:48 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.