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Severe Thunderstorm Watch 12

March 8, 20024 states

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.

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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.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Mar 8, 9:10 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEAXAtchison50 min
Mar 8, 9:15 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningICTCowley75 min
Mar 8, 9:24 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTOPLyon21 min
Mar 8, 9:25 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningICTSumner35 min
Mar 8, 9:25 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTOPShawnee35 min
Mar 8, 9:31 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEAXDoniphan44 min
Mar 8, 9:33 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningICTGreenwood72 min
Mar 8, 9:41 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningICTButler34 min
Mar 8, 9:44 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEAXAndrew, Holt46 min
Mar 8, 9:45 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTOPOsage30 min
Mar 8, 9:48 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTOPLyon27 min
Mar 8, 9:54 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningICTChautauqua, Elk81 min
Mar 8, 9:58 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEAXLeavenworth62 min
Mar 8, 10:06 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTOPDouglas, Franklin39 min
Mar 8, 10:10 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTOPOsage35 min
Mar 8, 10:17 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEAXDeKalb, Gentry, Worth58 min
Mar 8, 10:25 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningICTWilson, Woodson65 min
Mar 8, 10:28 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEAXJohnson, Wyandotte62 min
Mar 8, 10:35 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEAXClinton55 min
Mar 8, 10:45 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTOPDouglas, Franklin25 min
Mar 8, 10:52 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEAXClay, Jackson, Platte53 min
Mar 8, 10:53 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEAXCaldwell, Daviess, Harrison37 min
Mar 8, 10:55 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningICTAllen, Neosho65 min
Mar 8, 10:56 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningICTMontgomery64 min
Mar 8, 11:15 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEAXRay60 min
Mar 8, 11:18 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningICTLabette57 min
Mar 8, 11:21 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEAXGrundy, Mercer39 min
Mar 8, 11:25 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEAXMiami65 min
Mar 8, 11:29 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEAXCaldwell, Livingston61 min
Mar 8, 11:38 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSGFBourbon, Cherokee, Crawford67 min
Mar 8, 11:46 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEAXPutnam, Sullivan59 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.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Lamont, OK at 00:00Z on 2002-03-09Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 814 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Lamont, OK at 00:00Z on 2002-03-09The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 457 square meters per square second.1939587897117136Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
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

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SPC that day

Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Mar 8, 11:30 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPCAdair, Audrain, Boone, Callaway, Carroll, Chariton and 21 more5 hr
Mar 8, 11:45 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPCBarry, Barton, Bates, Benton, Bollinger, Butler and 46 more4 hr
Mar 8, 9:30 PM CSTTornado WatchSPCChoctaw, Latimer, LeFlore, McCurtain, Pushmataha, Sequoyah5 hr
Mar 9, 1:00 AM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPCAdair, Atoka, Cherokee, Haskell, Latimer, LeFlore and 3 more5 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.