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Tornado Warning 30, NWS Wichita, KS
NWS Wichita, KS issued this tornado warning at May 8, 2002, 4:10 PM CDT for Sedgwick County, Kansas. It was in force for 50 min. 10 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 8, 2002, 4:10 PM CDT (21:10 UTC)
- Expired
- May 8, 2002, 5:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 50 min
- Issued by
- NWS Wichita, KS
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Sedgwick County, KS
The radar
The Wichita radar (KICT), 14 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:14 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 8, 4:10 PM CDT | Hail 1.25 | Maize, KS | |
| May 8, 4:28 PM CDT | Hail 0.75 | Wichita, KS | Occurred at Mid-Continent Airport. |
| May 8, 4:30 PM CDT | Hail 0.75 | Wichita, KS | |
| May 8, 4:33 PM CDT | Hail 0.75 | Wichita, KS | |
| May 8, 4:35 PM CDT | Hail 1 | Wichita, KS | |
| May 8, 4:42 PM CDT | Hail 0.88 | Wichita, KS | |
| May 8, 4:47 PM CDT | Hail 0.75 | Wichita, KS | Occurred at Wichita State. |
| May 8, 4:52 PM CDT | Hail 1.75 | Wichita, KS | Occurred at 21st St. N/Waco intersection. |
| May 8, 5:00 PM CDT | Thunderstorm Wind 52 E | Wichita, KS | Roof damage. |
| May 8, 5:05 PM CDT | Hail 0.75 | Kechi, 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 8, 2:00 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Topeka, KS (KTOP), launched 12:00Z, 9.2 hours before the alert went out and 207 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
- 50 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -814 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1189 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 56 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 522 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 829 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.6
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WFUS53 KICT 082110 TORICT KSC173-082200- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WICHITA KS 409 PM CDT WED MAY 8 2002 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN WICHITA HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... SEDGWICK COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL KANSAS * UNTIL 500 PM CDT * AT 409 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WITH STRONG ROTATION 6 MILES NORTHWEST OF DOWNTOWN WICHITA...OR 3 MILES SOUTH OF MAIZE...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 20 MPH. THIS STORM COULD PRODUCE A TORNADO AT ANY TIME. * THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR PARK CITY AROUND 425 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 SEDGWICK COUNTY UNTIL 500 PM CDT. LAT...LON 3776 9758 3762 9742 3784 9715 3792 9744 /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, 10:00 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ICT | Kingman | 60 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, 4:20 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.