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Tornado Warning 7, NWS Wichita, KS

April 18, 2002McPherson County, Kansas

NWS Wichita, KS issued this tornado warning at Apr 18, 2002, 6:44 PM CDT for McPherson County, Kansas. It was in force for 46 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: Apr 18, 2002, 6:44 PM CDT (23:44 UTC)
Expired: Apr 18, 2002, 7:30 PM CDT
In force: 46 min
Issued by: NWS Wichita, KS
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County McPherson County, KS

The radar

The Wichita radar (KICT), 92 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:46 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 watch it was issued in

The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.

Issued	Product	Office	Lasted
Apr 18, 4:00 PM CDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	5 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Topeka, KS (KTOP), launched 12:00Z, 11.7 hours before the alert went out and 176 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: 1886 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -212 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1049 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 41 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 208 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 220 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 1.9

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The text

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

000 
WFUS53 KICT 182344
TORICT
KSC113-190030-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WICHITA KS
643 PM CDT THU APR 18 2002

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN WICHITA HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  MCPHERSON COUNTY IN CENTRAL KANSAS

* UNTIL 730 PM CDT

* RADAR CONTINUES TO INDICATE STRONG ROTATION. AT 630 PM LAW 
ENFORCEMENT REPORTED A TORNADO 4 MILES NORTH OF GALVA. THIS STORM IS 
MOVING NORTHEAST AT AROUND 10 MPH. LARGE HAIL IS ALSO LIKELY WITH 
THIS STORM.

* THE TORNADO WILL BE
  NEAR ROXBURY AROUND 705 PM CDT...

THIS IS A DANGEROUS STORM. MOVE INTO YOUR TORNADO SHELTER NOW STAY
AWAY FROM WINDOWS. LEAVE AUTOMOBILES AND MOBILE HOMES...WHICH OFFER
LITTLE PROTECTION FROM A TORNADO.

REPEATING...A TORNADO WARNING HAS BEEN ISSUED FOR MCPHERSON COUNTY
UNTIL 730 PM CDT.

A TORNADO WATCH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 9:00 PM CDT.

LAT...LON 3849 9768 3831 9759 3844 9740 3858 9741
          3857 9759

/LAWSON
&

NNNN

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Apr 17, 7:24 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Ellsworth	51 min
Apr 17, 8:05 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Rice	40 min
Apr 17, 8:19 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	McPherson	56 min
Apr 17, 8:22 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	ICT	Kingman	23 min
Apr 17, 8:29 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Barton	46 min
Apr 17, 8:41 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Reno	64 min
Apr 17, 8:44 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Kingman	61 min
Apr 17, 8:56 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Kingman	19 min
Apr 17, 8:58 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Rice	62 min
Apr 17, 9:26 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Ellsworth	49 min
Apr 17, 9:41 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Reno	49 min
Apr 17, 9:42 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Reno	48 min
Apr 17, 9:58 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Rice	47 min
Apr 17, 10:06 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	McPherson	39 min
Apr 17, 10:30 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Ellsworth	45 min
Apr 17, 10:48 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	McPherson, Saline	42 min
Apr 17, 11:03 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Marion	27 min
Apr 17, 11:12 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Lincoln	48 min
Apr 17, 11:26 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Saline	49 min
Apr 17, 11:31 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Saline	44 min
Apr 18, 1:40 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Sumner	65 min
Apr 18, 2:29 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Sedgwick	46 min
Apr 18, 3:02 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Butler	58 min
Apr 18, 5:15 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	McPherson	45 min
Apr 18, 5:57 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	ICT	McPherson	48 min
Apr 18, 6:58 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Marion	62 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.