Alert archive / Kansas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2002
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 5, NWS Topeka, KS
NWS Topeka, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 8, 2002, 7:57 PM CST for Clay County, Kansas. It was in force for 33 min. 1 report 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
- Mar 8, 2002, 7:57 PM CST (01:57 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 8, 2002, 8:30 PM CST
- In force
- 33 min
- Issued by
- NWS Topeka, KS
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Clay County, KS
The radar
The Topeka radar (KTWX), 83 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:45 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 8, 8:06 PM CST | Hail 0.75 | Wakefield, KS |
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 nearest sounding before it
Topeka, KS (KTOP), launched 00:00Z, 2.0 hours before the alert went out and 131 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 090157 SVRTOP KSC027-090230- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TOPEKA KS 756 PM CST FRI MAR 8 2002 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TOPEKA HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... SOUTHERN CLAY COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL KANSAS * UNTIL 830 PM CST * AT 751 PM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 13 MILES SOUTHWEST OF WAKEFIELD...OR ABOUT 14 MILES NORTH OF ABILENE...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 55 MPH. * SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED... WAKEFIELD 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 3942 9698 3914 9697 3913 9733 3930 9732
The 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, 7:34 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Dickinson | 41 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.