Alert archive / Kansas / Severe Thunderstorm Watches in 2002
Severe Thunderstorm Watch 11
The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at Mar 8, 2002, 4:00 PM CST for 24 counties in Kansas; 5 counties in Missouri. It was in force for 6 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Mar 8, 2002, 4:00 PM CST (22:00 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 8, 2002, 10:00 PM CST
- In force
- 6 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
All 29 counties
Atchison County, KS, Brown County, KS, Chase County, KS, Dickinson County, KS, Doniphan County, KS, Geary County, KS, Harvey County, KS, Jackson County, KS, Jefferson County, KS, Leavenworth County, KS, Lyon County, KS, Marion County, KS, Marshall County, KS, McPherson County, KS, Morris County, KS, Nemaha County, KS, Pottawatomie County, KS, Reno County, KS, Rice County, KS, Riley County, KS, Saline County, KS, Shawnee County, KS, Stafford County, KS, Wabaunsee County, KS, Buchanan County, MO, Clinton County, MO, Daviess County, MO, DeKalb County, MO, Platte County, MO
The radar
The Topeka radar (KTWX), 84 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:59 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.
Warnings issued inside it
14 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 8, 6:59 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Rice | 46 min |
| Mar 8, 7:14 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Reno | 46 min |
| Mar 8, 7:19 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | McPherson, Saline | 56 min |
| Mar 8, 7:34 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Dickinson | 41 min |
| Mar 8, 7:55 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Harvey, Sedgwick | 65 min |
| Mar 8, 8:00 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Reno | 30 min |
| Mar 8, 8:03 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Marion | 57 min |
| Mar 8, 8:25 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Morris | 50 min |
| Mar 8, 9:10 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Atchison | 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, 9:31 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Doniphan | 44 min |
| Mar 8, 9:48 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Lyon | 27 min |
| Mar 8, 9:58 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Leavenworth | 62 min |
The nearest sounding before it
Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 12:00Z, 10.0 hours before the alert went out and 264 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 2130 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 67 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 284 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 308 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
SPC that day
Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 8, 4:00 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Barber, Comanche, Harper, Kingman, Kiowa, Pratt and 2 more | 6 hr |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Watches in Kansas, 2002Severe Thunderstorm Watches in Missouri, 2002Every severe thunderstorm watch in 2002
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.