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Tornado Warning 59, NWS Wichita, KS

June 15, 2002Reno County, Kansas

NWS Wichita, KS issued this tornado warning at Jun 15, 2002, 4:06 PM CDT for Reno County, Kansas. It was in force for 39 min. 4 reports came from inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The outline as issued, with what was reported inside it.

The facts

Issued: Jun 15, 2002, 4:06 PM CDT (21:06 UTC)
Expired: Jun 15, 2002, 4:45 PM CDT
In force: 39 min
Issued by: NWS Wichita, KS
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Reno County, KS

The radar

The Wichita radar (KICT), 40 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:07 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.

What was reported inside it

Time	Report	Where	Remark
Jun 15, 4:08 PM CDT	Tornado F0	Haven, KS	Brief tornadic event, the tornado was also spotted by a highway patrol officer and a trained spotter.
Jun 15, 4:19 PM CDT	Thunderstorm Wind 61 E	Cheney Res, KS
Jun 15, 4:20 PM CDT	Hail 0.75	Cheney Res, KS
Jun 15, 4:36 PM CDT	Thunderstorm Wind 61 E	Cheney Res, KS	Two large cottonwood trees uprooted.

NCEI Storm Data entries that began inside the alert's area while it was in force. Before 2003 the local storm report archive is thin, so this is the record of what happened rather than what was phoned in.

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 15, 4:00 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	6 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Lamont, OK (KLMN), launched 12:00Z, 9.1 hours before the alert went out and 142 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL: 2131 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 37 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 21 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 69 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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The text

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

000 
WFUS53 KICT 152106
TORICT
KSC155-152145-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WICHITA KS
406 PM CDT SAT JUN 15 2002

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN WICHITA HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  RENO COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL KANSAS

* UNTIL 445 PM CDT

* AT 406 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WITH STRONG ROTATION 17 MILES SOUTH OF
  HUTCHINSON...OR 8 MILES SOUTHWEST OF HAVEN...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 30
  MPH. THIS STORM COULD PRODUCE A TORNADO AT ANY TIME.

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

THIS REPLACES THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING PREVIOUSLY ISSUED FOR
THE WARNED AREA.

STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS.

LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING THUNDERSTORM WINDS ARE ALSO EXPECTED WITH
THIS STORM. HEAVY RAINFALL FROM THE STORM MAY PRODUCE LOCALIZED
FLOODING. DO NOT DRIVE INTO AREAS WHERE WATER COVERS THE ROAD.

REPEATING...A TORNADO WARNING HAS BEEN ISSUED FOR RENO COUNTY UNTIL
445 PM CDT.

LAT...LON 3798 9781 3774 9800 3772 9771 3795 9770

/HOWERTON

NNNN

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 15, 9:08 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Russell	37 min
Jun 15, 9:18 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Barton	57 min
Jun 15, 12:52 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Barton, Ellsworth, Russell	38 min
Jun 15, 1:02 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Rice	58 min
Jun 15, 1:15 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Russell	45 min
Jun 15, 1:19 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Ellsworth	56 min
Jun 15, 1:45 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Rice	60 min
Jun 15, 1:52 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Reno	53 min
Jun 15, 2:16 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	McPherson	59 min
Jun 15, 2:41 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Reno	64 min
Jun 15, 2:46 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Rice	59 min
Jun 15, 2:50 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Harvey	55 min
Jun 15, 3:06 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Russell	69 min
Jun 15, 3:17 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Sedgwick	73 min
Jun 15, 3:22 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Barton	83 min
Jun 15, 3:47 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Reno	58 min
Jun 15, 3:57 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Butler	78 min
Jun 15, 4:19 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	ICT	Rice	4 hr
Jun 15, 4:19 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Rice	71 min
Jun 15, 4:26 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	ICT	Butler	6 hr
Jun 15, 4:30 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Sedgwick	75 min
Jun 15, 4:37 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	McPherson	68 min
Jun 15, 4:44 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Reno	76 min
Jun 15, 4:57 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Harvey	63 min
Jun 15, 5:25 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	ICT	Harvey, Reno	6 hr
Jun 15, 5:34 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Harper	56 min
Jun 15, 5:37 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Harper	53 min
Jun 15, 6:01 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	ICT	Sedgwick	4 hr
Jun 15, 6:17 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Kingman	58 min
Jun 15, 6:30 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Harper	60 min
Jun 15, 6:44 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Sumner	91 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.