Alert archive / Kansas / Tornado Warnings in 2002
Tornado Warning 55, NWS Wichita, KS
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.
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.
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.
- 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
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.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 12, 7:08 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ICT | Butler | 52 min |
| 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, 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.