Alert archive / Kansas / Tornado Warnings in 2002
Tornado Warning 5, NWS Wichita, KS
NWS Wichita, KS issued this tornado warning at Apr 17, 2002, 8:22 PM CDT for Kingman County, Kansas. It was in force for 23 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
- Apr 17, 2002, 8:22 PM CDT (01:22 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 17, 2002, 8:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 23 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), 72 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:22 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 17, 8:28 PM CDT | Hail 1 | Zenda, KS | |
| Apr 17, 8:30 PM CDT | Hail 1.75 | Willowdale, KS | |
| Apr 17, 8:30 PM CDT | Hail 1.75 | Zenda, KS | |
| Apr 17, 8:45 PM CDT | Hail 0.75 | Kingman, 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 17, 5:15 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 00:00Z, 1.4 hours before the alert went out and 147 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
- 4097 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 12 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 25 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 43 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 180122 TORICT KSC095-180145- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WICHITA KS 822 PM CDT WED APR 17 2002 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN WICHITA HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... KINGMAN COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL KANSAS * UNTIL 845 PM CDT * AT 822 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WITH STRONG ROTATION 14 MILES NORTHEAST OF MEDICINE LODGE...OR 3 MILES SOUTHEAST OF NASHVILLE...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 45 MPH. THIS STORM COULD PRODUCE A TORNADO AT ANY TIME. * THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR KINGMAN AROUND 845 PM CDT... THIS IS A DANGEROUS STORM. MOVE INTO YOUR TORNADO SHELTER NOW STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS. LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING THUNDERSTORM WINDS ARE ALSO EXPECTED WITH THIS STORM. REPEATING...A TORNADO WARNING HAS BEEN ISSUED FOR KINGMAN COUNTY UNTIL 845 PM CDT. LAT...LON 3748 9846 3737 9829 3767 9783 3770 9822 /ES NNNN
The office that day
Everything else NWS Wichita, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 17, 7:24 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Ellsworth | 51 min |
| Apr 17, 8:05 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Rice | 40 min |
| Apr 17, 8:19 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | McPherson | 56 min |
| Apr 17, 8:29 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Barton | 46 min |
| Apr 17, 8:41 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Reno | 64 min |
| Apr 17, 8:44 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Kingman | 61 min |
| Apr 17, 8:56 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Kingman | 19 min |
| Apr 17, 8:58 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Rice | 62 min |
| Apr 17, 9:26 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Ellsworth | 49 min |
| Apr 17, 9:41 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Reno | 49 min |
| Apr 17, 9:42 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Reno | 48 min |
| Apr 17, 9:58 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Rice | 47 min |
| Apr 17, 10:06 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | McPherson | 39 min |
| Apr 17, 10:30 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Ellsworth | 45 min |
| Apr 17, 10:48 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | McPherson, Saline | 42 min |
| Apr 17, 11:03 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Marion | 27 min |
| Apr 17, 11:12 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Lincoln | 48 min |
| Apr 17, 11:26 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Saline | 49 min |
| Apr 17, 11:31 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Saline | 44 min |
| Apr 18, 1:40 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Sumner | 65 min |
| Apr 18, 2:29 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Sedgwick | 46 min |
| Apr 18, 3:02 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Butler | 58 min |
| Apr 18, 5:15 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | McPherson | 45 min |
| Apr 18, 5:57 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ICT | McPherson | 48 min |
| Apr 18, 6:44 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ICT | McPherson | 46 min |
| Apr 18, 6:58 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Marion | 62 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.