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Tornado Warning 56, NWS Wichita, KS
NWS Wichita, KS issued this tornado warning at Jun 12, 2002, 8:15 PM CDT for Chautauqua County, Cowley County, Kansas. It was in force for 60 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, 8:15 PM CDT (01:15 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 12, 2002, 9:15 PM CDT
- In force
- 60 min
- Issued by
- NWS Wichita, KS
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
Counties Chautauqua County, KS, Cowley County, KS
The radar
The Wichita radar (KICT), 95 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:15 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 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, 1.3 hours before the alert went out and 105 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 130115 TORICT KSC019-035-130215- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WICHITA KS 816 PM CDT WED JUN 12 2002 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN WICHITA HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... COWLEY COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL KANSAS CHAUTAUQUA COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST KANSAS * UNTIL 915 PM CDT * AT 816 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A DEVELOPING TORNADO 27 MILES EAST OF ARKANSAS CITY...OR 7 MILES EAST OF DEXTER. THIS DANGEROUS STORM IS MOVING EAST AT 35 MPH. * THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR CEDAR VALE AROUND 820 PM CDT... THIS IS A VERY DANGEROUS STORM...CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A LARGE TORNADO. MOVE INTO YOUR TORNADO SHELTER NOW REPEATING...A TORNADO WARNING HAS BEEN ISSUED FOR COWLEY AND CHAUTAUQUA COUNTIES UNTIL 915 PM CDT. LAT...LON 3727 9660 3713 9668 3705 9645 3722 9637 /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, 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, 8:32 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.