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Tornado Warning 3, NWS Wichita, KS
NWS Wichita, KS issued this tornado warning at Apr 11, 2002, 6:12 PM CDT for Kingman County, Sedgwick County, Kansas. It was in force for 63 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
- Apr 11, 2002, 6:12 PM CDT (23:12 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 11, 2002, 7:15 PM CDT
- In force
- 63 min
- Issued by
- NWS Wichita, KS
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
Counties Kingman County, KS, Sedgwick County, KS
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 11, 6:30 PM CDT | Hail 1.75 | Cheney, KS | |
| Apr 11, 6:35 PM CDT | Hail 1 | Garden Plain, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 11, 3:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 5 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Lamont, OK (KLMN), launched 12:00Z, 11.2 hours before the alert went out and 119 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1160 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 20 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 146 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 163 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 112312 TORICT KSC095-173-120015- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WICHITA KS 612 PM CDT THU APR 11 2002 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN WICHITA HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... SEDGWICK COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL KANSAS KINGMAN COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL KANSAS * UNTIL 715 PM CDT * AT 612 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WITH STRONG ROTATION 26 MILES WEST OF DOWNTOWN WICHITA...OR 5 MILES NORTHWEST OF CHENEY...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 10 MPH. THIS STORM COULD PRODUCE A TORNADO AT ANY TIME. * THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR CHENEY AROUND 635 PM CDT... IF NO UNDERGROUND SHELTER IS AVAILABLE...MOVE INTO AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF A STURDY STRUCTURE. REPEATING...A TORNADO WARNING HAS BEEN ISSUED FOR UNTIL 715 PM CDT. LAT...LON 3772 9779 3768 9791 3757 9782 3762 9767 /CARUSO NNNN
The office that day
Everything else NWS Wichita, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 11, 5:01 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Reno | 59 min |
| Apr 11, 5:05 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Marion | 55 min |
| Apr 11, 5:28 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Harvey | 62 min |
| Apr 11, 5:36 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ICT | Kingman, Reno | 39 min |
| Apr 11, 5:46 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ICT | Harvey | 59 min |
| Apr 11, 5:58 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Sedgwick | 62 min |
| Apr 11, 6:43 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ICT | Harvey | 62 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.