Alert archive / Kansas / Tornado Warnings in 2002
Tornado Warning 62, NWS Wichita, KS
NWS Wichita, KS issued this tornado warning at Aug 12, 2002, 9:10 PM CDT for Rice County, Kansas. It was in force for 35 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
- Aug 12, 2002, 9:10 PM CDT (02:10 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 12, 2002, 9:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 35 min
- Issued by
- NWS Wichita, KS
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Rice County, KS
The radar
The Wichita radar (KICT), 87 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 02:10 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 12, 6:50 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 5 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 00:00Z, 2.2 hours before the alert went out and 172 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
- 2080 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -70 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1516 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 46 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 158 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 339 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 1.3
- Supercell composite
- 23.8
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
404 WFUS53 KICT 130210 TORICT KSC159-130245- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WICHITA KS 909 PM CDT MON AUG 12 2002 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN WICHITA HAS REISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... RICE COUNTY IN KANSAS * UNTIL 945 PM CDT * AT 909 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WITH STRONG ROTATION 16 MILES NORTHWEST OF HUTCHINSON...OR 7 MILES NORTH OF NICKERSON...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 15 MPH. THIS STORM COULD PRODUCE A TORNADO AT ANY TIME. * THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE OVER RURAL AREAS OF RICE COUNTY... THIS IS A DANGEROUS STORM. MOVE INTO YOUR TORNADO SHELTER NOW REPEATING...A TORNADO WARNING HAS BEEN ISSUED FOR RICE COUNTY UNTIL 945 PM CDT. LAT...LON 3837 9810 3818 9818 3818 9793 3830 9792 /COX NNNN
The office that day
Everything else NWS Wichita, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 12, 7:13 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Ellsworth | 62 min |
| Aug 12, 7:31 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Rice | 59 min |
| Aug 12, 8:22 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | ICT | Rice | 6 hr |
| Aug 12, 8:26 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Rice | 64 min |
| Aug 12, 8:48 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ICT | Rice | 27 min |
| Aug 12, 9:05 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Reno | 55 min |
| Aug 12, 9:26 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | McPherson | 64 min |
| Aug 12, 9:31 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ICT | Reno | 59 min |
| Aug 12, 10:14 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Kingman | 61 min |
| Aug 12, 10:21 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Harvey, Sedgwick | 84 min |
| Aug 12, 10:27 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Reno | 33 min |
| Aug 12, 10:53 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Sumner | 67 min |
| Aug 12, 11:07 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Butler | 83 min |
| Aug 12, 11:46 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Reno | 59 min |
| Aug 12, 11:49 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Ellsworth | 56 min |
| Aug 13, 12:00 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Sumner | 30 min |
| Aug 13, 12:06 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Cowley | 84 min |
| Aug 13, 12:50 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | ICT | Ellsworth, Rice | 6 hr |
| Aug 13, 1:48 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | ICT | Reno | 6 hr |
| Aug 13, 6:54 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | ICT | Rice | 5 hr |
| Aug 13, 7:56 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | ICT | Reno | 6 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.