Alert archive / Kansas / Tornado Warnings in 2002
Tornado Warning 42, NWS Wichita, KS
NWS Wichita, KS issued this tornado warning at May 11, 2002, 7:00 PM CDT for Kingman County, Kansas. It was in force for 45 min. 4 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 11, 2002, 7:00 PM CDT (00:00 UTC)
- Expired
- May 11, 2002, 7:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 45 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), 70 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:03 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 11, 7:05 PM CDT | Hail 0.75 | Cunningham, KS | |
| May 11, 7:23 PM CDT | Hail 1.75 | Penalosa, KS | |
| May 11, 7:45 PM CDT | Hail 2 | Penalosa, KS | |
| May 11, 7:55 PM CDT | Hail 1.75 | Penalosa, 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 11, 2:30 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Lamont, OK (KLMN), launched 00:00Z, 0.0 hours before the alert went out and 132 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
- 1882 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -52 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1037 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 40 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 242 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 286 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 2.7
- Supercell composite
- 15.8
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WFUS53 KICT 120000 TORICT KSC095-120045- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WICHITA KS 659 PM CDT SAT MAY 11 2002 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN WICHITA HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... KINGMAN COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL KANSAS * UNTIL 745 PM CDT * AT 659 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WITH STRONG ROTATION 15 MILES EAST OF PRATT... OR OVER CUNNINGHAM...MOVING EAST AT 35 MPH. THIS STORM COULD PRODUCE A TORNADO AT ANY TIME. * THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR CUNNINGHAM AROUND 700 PM CDT... NEAR PENALOSA AROUND 710 PM CDT... NEAR KINGMAN AROUND 730 PM CDT... THIS IS A DANGEROUS STORM. MOVE INTO YOUR TORNADO SHELTER NOW IF NO UNDERGROUND SHELTER IS AVAILABLE...MOVE INTO AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF A STURDY STRUCTURE. STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS. REPEATING...A TORNADO WARNING HAS BEEN ISSUED FOR KINGMAN COUNTY UNTIL 745 PM CDT. LAT...LON 3772 9846 3755 9846 3751 9794 3773 9786 /WOLF NNNN
The office that day
Everything else NWS Wichita, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 11, 7:43 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ICT | Kingman | 47 min |
| May 11, 7:44 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Reno | 61 min |
| May 11, 9:24 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Kingman | 66 min |
| May 11, 11:22 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Sedgwick | 53 min |
| May 11, 11:24 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Harper | 66 min |
| May 11, 11:41 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Butler | 64 min |
| May 11, 11:56 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Sumner | 64 min |
| May 12, 12:25 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Ellsworth | 50 min |
| May 12, 12:48 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Lincoln | 57 min |
| May 12, 12:54 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Cowley | 51 min |
| May 12, 1:07 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Greenwood | 53 min |
| May 12, 1:15 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | ICT | Butler | 6 hr |
| May 12, 2:38 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Neosho | 67 min |
| May 12, 12:29 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Labette | 46 min |
| May 12, 4:13 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Allen | 32 min |
| May 12, 4:17 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Elk | 43 min |
| May 12, 4:25 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Wilson | 50 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.