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Tornado Warning 52, NWS Wichita, KS

June 12, 2002Harper County, Sumner County, Kansas

NWS Wichita, KS issued this tornado warning at Jun 12, 2002, 6:01 PM CDT for Harper County, Sumner County, Kansas. It was in force for 59 min. 5 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 12, 2002, 6:01 PM CDT (23:01 UTC)
Expired: Jun 12, 2002, 7:00 PM CDT
In force: 59 min
Issued by: NWS Wichita, KS
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

Counties Harper County, KS, Sumner County, KS

The radar

The Wichita radar (KICT), 56 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:05 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, 6:06 PM CDT	Hail 1.75	Freeport, KS
Jun 12, 6:12 PM CDT	Hail 2.75	Freeport, KS	Roof damage and windows smashed on cars and homes.
Jun 12, 6:35 PM CDT	Tornado F0	Freeport, KS	Remaining in the country, this tornado would cross the Harper/Sumner county line at 1736.
Jun 12, 6:36 PM CDT	Tornado F0	Milan, KS	The same tornado that began 2 miles southeast of Freeport, this tornado crossed the Harper/Sumner county line at 1736, lifting 3 miles southwest of Milan.
Jun 12, 6:44 PM CDT	Hail 0.75	Freeport, 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 12, 4:00 PM CDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	5 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Lamont, OK (KLMN), launched 12:00Z, 11.0 hours before the alert went out and 76 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 122301
TORICT
KSC077-191-130000-

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

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN WICHITA HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  SUMNER COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL KANSAS
  HARPER COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL KANSAS

* UNTIL 700 PM CDT

* AT 601 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WITH STRONG ROTATION 38 MILES EAST OF MEDICINE
  LODGE...OR 8 MILES WEST OF ARGONIA...MOVING EAST AT 15 MPH. THIS
  STORM COULD PRODUCE A TORNADO AT ANY TIME.

* THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE
  NEAR ARGONIA AROUND 625 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 SUMNER AND HARPER
COUNTIES UNTIL 700 PM CDT.

LAT...LON 3730 9793 3719 9795 3716 9763 3730 9763

/CARUSO

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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, 5:54 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	ICT	Cowley	66 min
Jun 12, 5:56 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Butler	64 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

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.