Alert archive / Kansas / Tornado Warnings in 2002
Tornado Warning 4, NWS Wichita, KS
NWS Wichita, KS issued this tornado warning at Apr 11, 2002, 6:43 PM CDT for Harvey County, Kansas. It was in force for 62 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, 6:43 PM CDT (23:43 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 11, 2002, 7:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 62 min
- Issued by
- NWS Wichita, KS
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Harvey County, KS
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 11, 6:45 PM CDT | Hail 1.75 | Newton, KS | |
| Apr 11, 7:20 PM CDT | Hail 1 | Newton, 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, 11.7 hours before the alert went out and 156 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 112343 TORICT KSC079-120045- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WICHITA KS 643 PM CDT THU APR 11 2002 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN WICHITA HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... HARVEY COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL KANSAS * UNTIL 745 PM CDT * AT 643 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WITH STRONG ROTATION 22 MILES NORTH OF DOWNTOWN WICHITA...OR 3 MILES SOUTH OF NEWTON...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 5 MPH. THIS STORM COULD PRODUCE A TORNADO AT ANY TIME. * THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE OVER RURAL AREAS OF HARVEY COUNTY... 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 HARVEY COUNTY UNTIL 745 PM CDT. LAT...LON 3807 9731 3802 9741 3794 9732 3800 9721 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, 6:12 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ICT | Kingman, Sedgwick | 63 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.