Alert archive / Kansas / Tornado Warnings in 2002
Tornado Warning 50, NWS Wichita, KS
NWS Wichita, KS issued this tornado warning at Jun 11, 2002, 6:30 PM CDT for McPherson County, Kansas. It was in force for 60 min. 3 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
- Jun 11, 2002, 6:30 PM CDT (23:30 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 11, 2002, 7:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 60 min
- Issued by
- NWS Wichita, KS
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County McPherson County, KS
The radar
The Wichita radar (KICT), 100 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:33 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, 6:44 PM CDT | Thunderstorm Wind 78 E | Lindsborg, KS | Widespread damage to roofs, trees, power lines and power poles. (Cooperative observer). |
| Jun 11, 6:44 PM CDT | Hail 0.75 | Lindsborg, KS | |
| Jun 11, 6:51 PM CDT | Hail 0.88 | Lindsborg, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 11, 3:45 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Topeka, KS (KTOP), launched 12:00Z, 11.5 hours before the alert went out and 185 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
- 2011 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -155 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 733 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 17 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 272 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 377 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.8
- Supercell composite
- 13.4
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WFUS53 KICT 112330 TORICT KSC113-120030- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WICHITA KS 629 PM CDT TUE JUN 11 2002 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN WICHITA HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... MCPHERSON COUNTY IN CENTRAL KANSAS * UNTIL 730 PM CDT * AT 629 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WITH STRONG ROTATION 20 MILES SOUTH OF SALINA...OR 3 MILES SOUTHWEST OF LINDSBORG...MOVING EAST AT 40 MPH. THIS STORM COULD PRODUCE A TORNADO AT ANY TIME. * THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE AFFECTING LINDSBORG THRU 645 PM CDT... THIS REPLACES THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING PREVIOUSLY ISSUED FOR THE WARNED AREA. THIS IS A VERY DANGEROUS THUNDERSTORM...CAPABLE OF DESTRUCTIVE WINDS OF 80 TO 100 MPH MOVE INTO YOUR TORNADO SHELTER NOW LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING THUNDERSTORM WINDS ARE ALSO EXPECTED WITH THIS STORM. REPEATING...A TORNADO WARNING HAS BEEN ISSUED FOR MCPHERSON COUNTY UNTIL 730 PM CDT. LAT...LON 3861 9783 3847 9787 3837 9750 3858 9743 /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, 5:34 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ICT | Ellsworth | 41 min |
| 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, 6:44 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.