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Tornado Warning 53, NWS Wichita, KS

June 12, 2002Cowley County, Kansas

NWS Wichita, KS issued this tornado warning at Jun 12, 2002, 6:54 PM CDT for Cowley County, Kansas. It was in force for 66 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued
Jun 12, 2002, 6:54 PM CDT (23:54 UTC)
Expired
Jun 12, 2002, 8:00 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), 72 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:54 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The watch it was issued in

The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.

IssuedProductOfficeLasted
Jun 12, 4:00 PM CDTTornado WatchSPC5 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Lamont, OK (KLMN), launched 12:00Z, 11.9 hours before the alert went out and 115 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Lamont, OK at 12:00Z on 2002-06-12Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1217 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Lamont, OK at 12:00Z on 2002-06-12The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 323 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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 122354
TORICT
KSC035-130100-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WICHITA KS
654 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 800 PM CDT

* AT 654 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WITH STRONG ROTATION 27 MILES SOUTH OF EL
  DORADO...OR 2 MILES EAST OF ATLANTA...MOVING EAST AT 15 MPH. THIS
  STORM COULD PRODUCE A TORNADO AT ANY TIME.

* THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE
  OVER RURAL AREAS OF COWLEY COUNTY...

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

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

LAT...LON 3746 9677 3739 9677 3738 9653 3746 9654

/CARUSO

NNNN

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 11, 7:13 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningICTEllsworth, Rice62 min
Jun 11, 7:25 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningICTMcPherson65 min
Jun 11, 7:40 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningICTMarion65 min
Jun 11, 7:56 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningICTChase64 min
Jun 11, 8:02 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningICTHarvey58 min
Jun 11, 8:08 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningICTRice67 min
Jun 11, 8:13 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningICTMcPherson6 hr
Jun 11, 8:36 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningICTButler54 min
Jun 11, 8:46 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningICTMarion44 min
Jun 11, 9:00 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningICTChase60 min
Jun 11, 9:16 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningICTReno, Rice59 min
Jun 11, 10:13 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningICTReno62 min
Jun 11, 10:14 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningICTHarvey6 hr
Jun 11, 10:28 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningICTSedgwick62 min
Jun 11, 10:34 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningICTHarvey56 min
Jun 11, 11:06 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningICTSedgwick6 hr
Jun 12, 1:05 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningICTSumner55 min
Jun 12, 1:19 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningICTMontgomery56 min
Jun 12, 1:48 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningICTLabette57 min
Jun 12, 3:58 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningICTReno77 min
Jun 12, 5:06 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningICTSedgwick54 min
Jun 12, 6:47 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningICTCowley43 min
Jun 12, 5:45 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningICTCowley60 min
Jun 12, 5:49 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningICTHarper, Sumner56 min
Jun 12, 5:54 PM CDTTornado WarningICTCowley66 min
Jun 12, 5:56 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningICTButler64 min
Jun 12, 6:01 PM CDTTornado WarningICTHarper, Sumner59 min
Jun 12, 6:16 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningICTSedgwick59 min
Jun 12, 6:32 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningICTWoodson58 min
Jun 12, 6:37 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningICTKingman68 min
Jun 12, 6:56 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningICTSumner79 min
Jun 12, 6:57 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningICTButler, Harper78 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.