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Tornado Warning 46, NWS Wichita, KS
NWS Wichita, KS issued this tornado warning at May 26, 2002, 8:00 PM CDT for Barton County, Russell County, Kansas. It was in force for 45 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- May 26, 2002, 8:00 PM CDT (01:00 UTC)
- Expired
- May 26, 2002, 8:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 45 min
- Issued by
- NWS Wichita, KS
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
Counties Barton County, KS, Russell County, KS
The radar
The Dodge City radar (KDDC), 151 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:59 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.
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 26, 5:30 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
| May 26, 6:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 5 hr |
| May 26, 8:00 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 5 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 00:00Z, 1.0 hours before the alert went out and 146 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
- 1171 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -3 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 2271 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 30 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 17 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 106 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 1.8
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WFUS53 KICT 270100 TORICT KSC009-167-270145- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WICHITA KS 800 PM CDT SUN MAY 26 2002 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN WICHITA HAS EXTENDED THE * TORNADO WARNING FOR... RUSSELL COUNTY IN CENTRAL KANSAS BARTON COUNTY IN CENTRAL KANSAS * UNTIL 845 PM CDT * AT 758 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A DEVELOPING TORNADO 15 MILES SOUTH OF RUSSELL...OR 12 MILES NORTH OF HOISINGTON. THIS DANGEROUS STORM IS MOVING EAST AT 20 MPH. * AT 758 PM CDT...A TRAINED SPOTTER REPORTED A TORNADO 10 MILES NORTH OF HOISINGTON ON THE BARTON RUSSELL COUNTY LINE. RADAR SHOWED THIS TORNADIC STORM MOVING EAST AT 20 MPH. * THE TORNADO WILL BE OVER RURAL AREAS OF BARTON COUNTY... THIS IS A DANGEROUS STORM. MOVE INTO YOUR TORNADO SHELTER NOW LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING THUNDERSTORM WINDS ARE ALSO EXPECTED WITH THIS STORM. REPEATING...A TORNADO WARNING HAS BEEN EXTENDED FOR RUSSELL AND BARTON COUNTIES UNTIL 845 PM CDT. LAT...LON 3878 9886 3861 9887 3858 9851 3878 9851 /ES & NNNN
The office that day
Everything else NWS Wichita, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 26, 7:27 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Barton, Russell | 63 min |
| May 26, 7:37 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ICT | Barton, Russell | 23 min |
| May 26, 8:52 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Barton | 38 min |
| May 26, 9:02 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Russell | 43 min |
| May 26, 9:31 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Barton, Russell | 44 min |
| May 26, 9:40 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ICT | Russell | 50 min |
| May 26, 10:29 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Russell | 46 min |
| May 26, 10:48 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Lincoln | 57 min |
| May 26, 11:54 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Saline | 66 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.