Alert archive / Kansas / Tornado Warnings in 2002
Tornado Warning 54, NWS Wichita, KS
NWS Wichita, KS issued this tornado warning at Jun 12, 2002, 7:08 PM CDT for Butler County, Kansas. It was in force for 52 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, 7:08 PM CDT (00:08 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 12, 2002, 8:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 52 min
- Issued by
- NWS Wichita, KS
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Butler County, KS
The radar
The Wichita radar (KICT), 35 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:09 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.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 12, 4:00 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 5 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Lamont, OK (KLMN), launched 00:00Z, 0.1 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 1711 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -10 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1397 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 52 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 44 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 137 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.9
- Supercell composite
- 6.2
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WFUS53 KICT 130008 TORICT KSC015-130100- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WICHITA KS 707 PM CDT WED JUN 12 2002 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN WICHITA HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... BUTLER COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL KANSAS * UNTIL 800 PM CDT * AT 707 PM CDT...A TRAINED SPOTTER REPORTED A TORNADO 18 MILES SOUTHEAST OF DOWNTOWN WICHITA...OR 1 MILES WEST OF DOUGLASS. * THE TORNADO WILL BE NEAR DOUGLASS BY 720 PM. 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 UNTIL 800 PM CDT. LAT...LON 3756 9711 3749 9713 3748 9705 3753 9701 /CARUSO & NNNN
The office that day
Everything else NWS Wichita, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 12, 7:19 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Wilson, Woodson | 56 min |
| Jun 12, 7:43 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | ICT | Butler, Cowley | 6 hr |
| Jun 12, 7:45 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Kingman | 60 min |
| Jun 12, 7:55 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ICT | Neosho, Wilson | 65 min |
| Jun 12, 8:01 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Cowley | 59 min |
| Jun 12, 8:07 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | ICT | Kingman | 3 hr |
| Jun 12, 8:15 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ICT | Chautauqua, Cowley | 60 min |
| Jun 12, 8:32 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Sumner | 58 min |
| Jun 12, 8:46 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | ICT | Neosho | 6 hr |
| Jun 12, 9:01 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ICT | Neosho | 44 min |
| Jun 12, 9:24 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ICT | Labette | 51 min |
| Jun 12, 9:53 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | ICT | Sumner | 6 hr |
| Jun 13, 11:25 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | ICT | Butler, Sedgwick | 3 hr |
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.