Alert archive / Kansas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2002
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 4, NWS Topeka, KS
NWS Topeka, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 8, 2002, 7:34 PM CST for Dickinson County, Kansas. It was in force for 41 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
- Mar 8, 2002, 7:34 PM CST (01:34 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 8, 2002, 8:15 PM CST
- In force
- 41 min
- Issued by
- NWS Topeka, KS
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Dickinson County, KS
The radar
The Topeka radar (KTWX), 72 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:35 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 8, 4:00 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Topeka, KS (KTOP), launched 00:00Z, 1.6 hours before the alert went out and 123 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
- 727 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -129 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 810 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 66 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 266 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 332 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.7
- Supercell composite
- 1.8
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000
WUUS53 KTOP 090134
SVRTOP
KSC041-090215-
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TOPEKA KS
733 PM CST FRI MAR 8 2002
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TOPEKA HAS ISSUED A
* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
DICKINSON COUNTY IN CENTRAL KANSAS
* UNTIL 815 PM CST
* AT 729 PM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 16 MILES SOUTHWEST OF ABILENE...OR ABOUT 8
MILES EAST OF SALINA...MOVING EAST AT 65 MPH.
* SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED...
ABILENE
TALMAGE
ENTERPRISE
MOONLIGHT
CHAPMAN
WOODBINE
LARGE HAIL IS LIKELY WITH THIS SEVERE THUNDERSTORM. IF YOU ARE IN THE
PATH OF THE STORM...MOVE INDOORS.
STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR LOCAL MEDIA OUTLETS FOR THE
LATEST SEVERE WEATHER INFORMATION.
LAT...LON 3910 9697 3887 9694 3882 9690 3873 9693
3873 9735 3907 9736The office that day
Everything else NWS Topeka, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 8, 7:19 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Clay, Cloud | 26 min |
| Mar 8, 7:57 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Clay | 33 min |
| Mar 8, 8:25 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Morris | 50 min |
| Mar 8, 9:24 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Lyon | 21 min |
| Mar 8, 9:25 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Shawnee | 35 min |
| Mar 8, 9:45 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Osage | 30 min |
| Mar 8, 9:48 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Lyon | 27 min |
| Mar 8, 10:06 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Douglas, Franklin | 39 min |
| Mar 8, 10:10 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Osage | 35 min |
| Mar 8, 10:45 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Douglas, Franklin | 25 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.