Alert archive / Kansas / Severe Thunderstorm Watches in 2002
Severe Thunderstorm Watch 12
The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at Mar 8, 2002, 9:00 PM CST for 4 states. It was in force for 5 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Mar 8, 2002, 9:00 PM CST (03:00 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 9, 2002, 2:00 AM CST
- In force
- 5 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
All 75 counties
Allen County, KS, Anderson County, KS, Atchison County, KS, Bourbon County, KS, Brown County, KS, Butler County, KS, Chase County, KS, Chautauqua County, KS, Coffey County, KS, Cowley County, KS, Doniphan County, KS, Douglas County, KS, Elk County, KS, Franklin County, KS, Greenwood County, KS, Jackson County, KS, Jefferson County, KS, Johnson County, KS, Labette County, KS, Leavenworth County, KS, Linn County, KS, Lyon County, KS, Marion County, KS, Miami County, KS, Montgomery County, KS, Morris County, KS, Nemaha County, KS, Neosho County, KS, Osage County, KS, Pottawatomie County, KS, Sedgwick County, KS, Shawnee County, KS, Sumner County, KS, Wabaunsee County, KS, Wilson County, KS, Woodson County, KS, Wyandotte County, KS, Andrew County, MO, Atchison County, MO, Buchanan County, MO, Caldwell County, MO, Cass County, MO, Clay County, MO, Clinton County, MO, Daviess County, MO, DeKalb County, MO, Gentry County, MO, Grundy County, MO, Harrison County, MO, Holt County, MO, Jackson County, MO, Lafayette County, MO, Livingston County, MO, Mercer County, MO, Nodaway County, MO, Platte County, MO, Putnam County, MO, Ray County, MO, Sullivan County, MO, Worth County, MO, Richardson County, NE, Blaine County, OK, Creek County, OK, Garfield County, OK, Grant County, OK, Kay County, OK, Kingfisher County, OK, Logan County, OK, Major County, OK, Noble County, OK, Nowata County, OK, Osage County, OK, Pawnee County, OK, Payne County, OK, Washington County, OK
The radar
The Wichita radar (KICT), 84 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 03:02 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
31 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 8, 9:10 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Atchison | 50 min |
| Mar 8, 9:15 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Cowley | 75 min |
| Mar 8, 9:24 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Lyon | 21 min |
| Mar 8, 9:25 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Sumner | 35 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, 9:33 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Greenwood | 72 min |
| Mar 8, 9:41 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Butler | 34 min |
| Mar 8, 9:44 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Andrew, Holt | 46 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, 9:54 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Chautauqua, Elk | 81 min |
| Mar 8, 9:58 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Leavenworth | 62 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, 10:17 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | DeKalb, Gentry, Worth | 58 min |
| Mar 8, 10:25 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Wilson, Woodson | 65 min |
| Mar 8, 10:28 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Johnson, Wyandotte | 62 min |
| Mar 8, 10:35 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Clinton | 55 min |
| Mar 8, 10:45 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Douglas, Franklin | 25 min |
| Mar 8, 10:52 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Clay, Jackson, Platte | 53 min |
| Mar 8, 10:53 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Caldwell, Daviess, Harrison | 37 min |
| Mar 8, 10:55 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Allen, Neosho | 65 min |
| Mar 8, 10:56 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Montgomery | 64 min |
| Mar 8, 11:15 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Ray | 60 min |
| Mar 8, 11:18 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Labette | 57 min |
| Mar 8, 11:21 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Grundy, Mercer | 39 min |
| Mar 8, 11:25 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Miami | 65 min |
| Mar 8, 11:29 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Caldwell, Livingston | 61 min |
| Mar 8, 11:38 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | Bourbon, Cherokee, Crawford | 67 min |
| Mar 8, 11:46 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Putnam, Sullivan | 59 min |
The nearest sounding before it
Lamont, OK (KLMN), launched 00:00Z, 3.0 hours before the alert went out and 146 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
- 814 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -189 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 967 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 62 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 457 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 507 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.2
- Supercell composite
- 2.1
SPC that day
Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 8, 11:30 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Adair, Audrain, Boone, Callaway, Carroll, Chariton and 21 more | 5 hr |
| Mar 8, 11:45 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Barry, Barton, Bates, Benton, Bollinger, Butler and 46 more | 4 hr |
| Mar 8, 9:30 PM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Choctaw, Latimer, LeFlore, McCurtain, Pushmataha, Sequoyah | 5 hr |
| Mar 9, 1:00 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Adair, Atoka, Cherokee, Haskell, Latimer, LeFlore and 3 more | 5 hr |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Watches in Kansas, 2002Severe Thunderstorm Watches in Missouri, 2002Severe Thunderstorm Watches in Oklahoma, 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.