Alert archive / Kansas / Tornado Warnings in 2002
Tornado Warning 36, NWS Wichita, KS
NWS Wichita, KS issued this tornado warning at May 8, 2002, 8:06 PM CDT for Chautauqua County, Kansas. It was in force for 54 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 8, 2002, 8:06 PM CDT (01:06 UTC)
- Expired
- May 8, 2002, 9:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 54 min
- Issued by
- NWS Wichita, KS
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Chautauqua County, KS
The radar
The Wichita radar (KICT), 119 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:10 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, 8:08 PM CDT | Hail 1.25 | Sedan, 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, 8:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Topeka, KS (KTOP), launched 00:00Z, 1.1 hours before the alert went out and 204 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
- 2 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -406 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 2470 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 32 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 285 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 319 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 090106 TORICT KSC019-090200- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WICHITA KS 806 PM CDT WED MAY 8 2002 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN WICHITA HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... CHAUTAUQUA COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST KANSAS * UNTIL 900 PM CDT * AT 806 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WITH STRONG ROTATION 39 MILES WEST OF COFFEYVILLE...OR 8 MILES NORTHWEST OF SEDAN...MOVING EAST AT 35 MPH. THIS STORM COULD PRODUCE A TORNADO AT ANY TIME. * THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE OVER RURAL AREAS OF CHAUTAUQUA COUNTY...PASSING JUST NORTH OF SEDAN. THIS REPLACES THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING PREVIOUSLY ISSUED FOR THE WARNED AREA. 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 CHAUTAUQUA COUNTY UNTIL 900 PM CDT. LAT...LON 3728 9633 3712 9632 3713 9600 3728 9606 /CARUSO NNNN
The office that day
Everything else NWS Wichita, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 8, 7:11 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Sumner | 64 min |
| May 8, 7:29 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Elk | 61 min |
| May 8, 7:38 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Chautauqua | 67 min |
| May 8, 8:20 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Montgomery | 55 min |
| May 8, 8:52 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Labette | 53 min |
| May 9, 1:17 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | ICT | Labette | 6 hr |
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.