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Tornado Warning 51, NWS Wichita, KS

June 12, 2002Cowley County, Kansas

NWS Wichita, KS issued this tornado warning at Jun 12, 2002, 5:54 PM CDT for Cowley County, Kansas. It was in force for 66 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 12, 2002, 5:54 PM CDT (22:54 UTC)
Expired: Jun 12, 2002, 7:00 PM CDT
In force: 66 min
Issued by: NWS Wichita, KS
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Cowley County, KS

The radar

The Wichita radar (KICT), 62 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:55 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 12, 5:54 PM CDT	Tornado F0	Atlanta, KS	Remained in the country.

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 12, 4:00 PM CDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	5 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Lamont, OK (KLMN), launched 12:00Z, 10.9 hours before the alert went out and 107 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: 1217 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -163 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 913 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 32 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 323 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 303 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 10.8

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The text

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

000 
WFUS53 KICT 122254
TORICT
KSC035-130000-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WICHITA KS
554 PM CDT WED JUN 12 2002

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN WICHITA HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  COWLEY COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL KANSAS

* UNTIL 700 PM CDT

* AT 554 PM CDT...A TRAINED SPOTTER REPORTED A TORNADO 26 MILES NORTH
  OF ARKANSAS CITY...OR 7 MILES WEST OF ATLANTA. RADAR SHOWED THIS
  TORNADIC STORM MOVING EAST AT 10 MPH.

* THE TORNADO WILL BE
  NEAR ATLANTA AROUND 610 PM CDT...

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

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

REPEATING...A TORNADO WARNING HAS BEEN ISSUED FOR COWLEY COUNTY UNTIL
700 PM CDT.

LAT...LON 3745 9690 3738 9691 3736 9668 3746 9666

/CARUSO
&

NNNN

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 11, 7:13 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Ellsworth, Rice	62 min
Jun 11, 7:25 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	McPherson	65 min
Jun 11, 7:40 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Marion	65 min
Jun 11, 7:56 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Chase	64 min
Jun 11, 8:02 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Harvey	58 min
Jun 11, 8:08 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Rice	67 min
Jun 11, 8:13 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	ICT	McPherson	6 hr
Jun 11, 8:36 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Butler	54 min
Jun 11, 8:46 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Marion	44 min
Jun 11, 9:00 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Chase	60 min
Jun 11, 9:16 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Reno, Rice	59 min
Jun 11, 10:13 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Reno	62 min
Jun 11, 10:14 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	ICT	Harvey	6 hr
Jun 11, 10:28 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Sedgwick	62 min
Jun 11, 10:34 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Harvey	56 min
Jun 11, 11:06 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	ICT	Sedgwick	6 hr
Jun 12, 1:05 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Sumner	55 min
Jun 12, 1:19 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Montgomery	56 min
Jun 12, 1:48 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Labette	57 min
Jun 12, 3:58 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Reno	77 min
Jun 12, 5:06 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Sedgwick	54 min
Jun 12, 6:47 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Cowley	43 min
Jun 12, 5:45 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Cowley	60 min
Jun 12, 5:49 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Harper, Sumner	56 min
Jun 12, 5:56 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Butler	64 min
Jun 12, 6:01 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	ICT	Harper, Sumner	59 min
Jun 12, 6:16 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Sedgwick	59 min
Jun 12, 6:32 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Woodson	58 min
Jun 12, 6:37 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Kingman	68 min
Jun 12, 6:54 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	ICT	Cowley	66 min
Jun 12, 6:56 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Sumner	79 min
Jun 12, 6:57 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Butler, Harper	78 min

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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.