Alert archive / Kansas / Tornado Warnings in 2002
Tornado Warning 23, NWS Wichita, KS
NWS Wichita, KS issued this tornado warning at May 7, 2002, 10:00 PM CDT for Kingman County, Kansas. It was in force for 60 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, 10:00 PM CDT (03:00 UTC)
- Expired
- May 7, 2002, 11:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 60 min
- Issued by
- NWS Wichita, KS
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Kingman County, KS
The radar
The Wichita radar (KICT), 54 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 03:02 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, 10:26 PM CDT | Hail 1.75 | Kingman, 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 |
| May 7, 10:00 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 4 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 00:00Z, 3.0 hours before the alert went out and 164 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
- 512 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -210 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1278 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 60 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 351 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 498 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 2.9
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WFUS53 KICT 080300 TORICT KSC095-080400- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WICHITA KS 1000 PM CDT TUE MAY 7 2002 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN WICHITA HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... KINGMAN COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL KANSAS * UNTIL 1100 PM CDT * AT 1000 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WITH STRONG ROTATION 29 MILES NORTHEAST OF MEDICINE LODGE...OR 7 MILES SOUTHWEST OF KINGMAN...MOVING EAST AT 15 MPH. THIS STORM COULD PRODUCE A TORNADO AT ANY TIME. * THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE CLEVELAND AROUND 1010 PM CDT... 6 MILES NORTH OF NORWICH AROUND 1055 PM CDT... THIS IS A DANGEROUS STORM. MOVE INTO YOUR TORNADO SHELTER NOW REPEATING...A TORNADO WARNING HAS BEEN ISSUED FOR KINGMAN COUNTY UNTIL 1100 PM CDT. LAT...LON 3771 9819 3742 9818 3740 9783 3772 9784 /COX NNNN
The office that day
Everything else NWS Wichita, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 7, 7:09 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Marion | 36 min |
| May 7, 7:21 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Elk | 54 min |
| May 7, 7:31 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Cowley | 29 min |
| May 7, 8:06 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | ICT | Wilson | 3 hr |
| May 7, 8:06 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Chase | 39 min |
| May 7, 8:15 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Elk | 45 min |
| May 7, 8:18 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Montgomery, Wilson | 57 min |
| May 7, 8:21 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | ICT | Neosho | 3 hr |
| May 7, 8:25 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | ICT | Chautauqua | 3 hr |
| May 7, 8:37 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Reno | 53 min |
| May 7, 8:43 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Neosho | 62 min |
| May 7, 8:52 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Labette | 53 min |
| May 7, 9:02 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ICT | Kingman | 58 min |
| May 7, 10:20 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | ICT | Kingman | 3 hr |
| May 7, 10:23 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Sedgwick | 67 min |
| May 7, 10:58 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Kingman | 62 min |
| May 7, 11:28 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Sedgwick | 62 min |
| May 7, 11:40 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Butler | 65 min |
| May 7, 11:47 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ICT | Kingman | 28 min |
| May 7, 11:49 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ICT | Kingman | 26 min |
| May 8, 12:13 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | ICT | Kingman | 62 min |
| May 8, 12:25 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | ICT | Sedgwick | 3 hr |
| May 8, 12:32 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Greenwood | 58 min |
| May 8, 1:01 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Elk | 59 min |
| May 8, 1:19 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Wilson | 56 min |
| May 8, 1:26 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | ICT | Wilson | 5 hr |
| May 8, 1:46 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Neosho | 59 min |
| May 8, 1:56 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | ICT | Neosho | 4 hr |
| May 8, 2:18 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | ICT | Montgomery | 5 hr |
| May 8, 2:45 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | ICT | Labette | 4 hr |
| May 8, 3:01 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | McPherson | 59 min |
| May 8, 3:06 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Sedgwick | 54 min |
| May 8, 3:08 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ICT | McPherson | 52 min |
| May 8, 3:21 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Kingman | 54 min |
| May 8, 3:26 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ICT | Marion | 64 min |
| May 8, 3:32 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Harper | 58 min |
| May 8, 3:56 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Sedgwick | 79 min |
| May 8, 4:01 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ICT | Harper | 59 min |
| May 8, 4:10 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ICT | Sedgwick | 50 min |
| May 8, 4:20 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ICT | Marion | 40 min |
| May 8, 4:36 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ICT | Chase | 39 min |
| May 8, 4:45 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ICT | Sumner | 60 min |
| May 8, 4:47 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Butler | 58 min |
| May 8, 4:54 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Sedgwick | 51 min |
| May 8, 4:54 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Harper | 66 min |
| May 8, 5:14 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Greenwood | 61 min |
| May 8, 5:31 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | ICT | Harper, Sumner | 6 hr |
| May 8, 5:40 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Sumner | 65 min |
| May 8, 5:44 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Butler | 61 min |
| May 8, 6:01 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | ICT | Butler | 6 hr |
| May 8, 6:11 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Cowley | 79 min |
| May 8, 6:31 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ICT | Sumner | 44 min |
| May 8, 6:37 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Butler | 53 min |
| May 8, 6:43 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ICT | Cowley | 62 min |
| May 8, 6:58 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | ICT | Cowley | 5 hr |
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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.