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Tornado Warning 49, NWS Wichita, KS

June 11, 2002Ellsworth County, Kansas

NWS Wichita, KS issued this tornado warning at Jun 11, 2002, 5:34 PM CDT for Ellsworth County, Kansas. It was in force for 41 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: Jun 11, 2002, 5:34 PM CDT (22:34 UTC)
Expired: Jun 11, 2002, 6:15 PM CDT
In force: 41 min
Issued by: NWS Wichita, KS
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Ellsworth County, KS

The radar

The Wichita radar (KICT), 139 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:38 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
Jun 11, 6:15 PM CDT	Thunderstorm Wind 78 E	Ellsworth, KS	Occurred at Rush Field. No damage was reported.

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
Jun 11, 3:45 PM CDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	6 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 12:00Z, 10.6 hours before the alert went out and 190 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.

Skew-T log-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.

Mixed-layer CAPE: 2237 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -217 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1203 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 18 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 196 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 286 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 8.4

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
WFUS53 KICT 112234
TORICT
KSC053-112315-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WICHITA KS
533 PM CDT TUE JUN 11 2002

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN WICHITA HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  ELLSWORTH COUNTY IN CENTRAL KANSAS

* UNTIL 615 PM CDT

* AT 533 PM CDT...A TRAINED SPOTTER REPORTED A TORNADO 30 MILES WEST
  OF SALINA...OR 2 MILES EAST OF ELLSWORTH. RADAR SHOWED THIS
  TORNADIC STORM MOVING EAST AT 20 MPH.

* THE TORNADO WILL BE
  OVER RURAL AREAS OF ELLSWORTH COUNTY...

THIS REPLACES THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING PREVIOUSLY ISSUED FOR
THE WARNED AREA.

THIS IS A DANGEROUS STORM. MOVE INTO YOUR TORNADO SHELTER NOW

GIANT HAIL AND DAMAGING THUNDERSTORM WINDS ARE ALSO EXPECTED WITH
THIS STORM.

REPEATING...A TORNADO WARNING HAS BEEN ISSUED FOR ELLSWORTH COUNTY
UNTIL 615 PM CDT.

LAT...LON 3885 9827 3867 9827 3865 9795 3886 9796

/ES
&

NNNN

The office that day

Everything else NWS Wichita, KS issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 11, 3:47 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Russell	43 min
Jun 11, 4:01 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Ellsworth, Lincoln	59 min
Jun 11, 4:26 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	ICT	Lincoln	49 min
Jun 11, 4:33 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Russell	57 min
Jun 11, 4:57 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Ellsworth	63 min
Jun 11, 5:13 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Lincoln	62 min
Jun 11, 5:20 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	ICT	Ellsworth, Lincoln	6 hr
Jun 11, 5:42 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Saline	63 min
Jun 11, 6:15 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Ellsworth	60 min
Jun 11, 6:17 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	McPherson	58 min
Jun 11, 6:18 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Rice	57 min
Jun 11, 6:30 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	ICT	McPherson	60 min
Jun 11, 6:44 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Saline	46 min
Jun 11, 6:49 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Marion	56 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.