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Tornado Warning 55, NWS Wichita, KS

June 12, 2002Neosho County, Wilson County, Kansas

NWS Wichita, KS issued this tornado warning at Jun 12, 2002, 7:55 PM CDT for Neosho County, Wilson County, Kansas. It was in force for 65 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, 7:55 PM CDT (00:55 UTC)
Expired
Jun 12, 2002, 9:00 PM CDT
In force
65 min
Issued by
NWS Wichita, KS
Area
Counties, with a storm outline in the text

Counties Neosho County, KS, Wilson County, KS

The radar

The Tulsa radar (KINX), 160 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:54 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.

The nearest sounding before it

Topeka, KS (KTOP), launched 00:00Z, 0.9 hours before the alert went out and 154 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, Topeka, KS at 00:00Z on 2002-06-13Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1572 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Topeka, KS at 00:00Z on 2002-06-13The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 60 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
1572 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-66 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1256 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
41 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
60 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
74 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.3
Supercell composite
2.9

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The text

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

000 
WFUS53 KICT 130055
TORICT
KSC133-205-130200-

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

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN WICHITA HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  WILSON COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST KANSAS
  NEOSHO COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST KANSAS

* UNTIL 900 PM CDT

* AT 754 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WITH STRONG ROTATION 8 MILES WEST OF CHANUTE...
  OR 8 MILES SOUTHEAST OF BUFFALO...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 15 MPH. THIS
  STORM COULD PRODUCE A TORNADO AT ANY TIME.

* THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE
   NEAR EARLTON AROUND 820 PM CDT...

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

REPEATING...A TORNADO WARNING HAS BEEN ISSUED FOR WILSON AND NEOSHO
COUNTIES UNTIL 900 PM CDT.

LAT...LON 3769 9555 3760 9566 3746 9551 3764 9538

/CARUSO

NNNN

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 12, 7:08 PM CDTTornado WarningICTButler52 min
Jun 12, 7:19 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningICTWilson, Woodson56 min
Jun 12, 7:43 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningICTButler, Cowley6 hr
Jun 12, 7:45 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningICTKingman60 min
Jun 12, 8:01 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningICTCowley59 min
Jun 12, 8:07 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningICTKingman3 hr
Jun 12, 8:15 PM CDTTornado WarningICTChautauqua, Cowley60 min
Jun 12, 8:32 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningICTSumner58 min
Jun 12, 8:46 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningICTNeosho6 hr
Jun 12, 9:01 PM CDTTornado WarningICTNeosho44 min
Jun 12, 9:24 PM CDTTornado WarningICTLabette51 min
Jun 12, 9:53 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningICTSumner6 hr
Jun 13, 11:25 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningICTButler, Sedgwick3 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.