Alert archive / Missouri / Severe Thunderstorm Watches in 2002
Severe Thunderstorm Watch 15
The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at Mar 8, 2002, 11:45 PM CST for Monroe County, Randolph County, Illinois; 52 counties in Missouri. It was in force for 4 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Mar 8, 2002, 11:45 PM CST (05:45 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 9, 2002, 4:00 AM CST
- In force
- 4 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
All 54 counties
Monroe County, IL, Randolph County, IL, Barry County, MO, Barton County, MO, Bates County, MO, Benton County, MO, Bollinger County, MO, Butler County, MO, Camden County, MO, Carter County, MO, Cedar County, MO, Christian County, MO, Crawford County, MO, Dade County, MO, Dallas County, MO, Dent County, MO, Douglas County, MO, Franklin County, MO, Greene County, MO, Henry County, MO, Hickory County, MO, Howell County, MO, Iron County, MO, Jasper County, MO, Jefferson County, MO, Laclede County, MO, Lawrence County, MO, Madison County, MO, Maries County, MO, McDonald County, MO, Miller County, MO, Morgan County, MO, Newton County, MO, Oregon County, MO, Ozark County, MO, Perry County, MO, Phelps County, MO, Polk County, MO, Pulaski County, MO, Reynolds County, MO, Ripley County, MO, Saint Francois County, MO, Sainte Genevieve County, MO, Shannon County, MO, St. Clair County, MO, Stoddard County, MO, Stone County, MO, Taney County, MO, Texas County, MO, Vernon County, MO, Washington County, MO, Wayne County, MO, Webster County, MO, Wright County, MO
The radar
The Springfield radar (KSGF), 78 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 05:46 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
13 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 8, 11:52 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | Vernon | 68 min |
| Mar 9, 12:28 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | Barton, Jasper | 62 min |
| Mar 9, 12:50 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | Benton, Cedar, Hickory, St. Clair | 40 min |
| Mar 9, 12:53 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | Newton | 52 min |
| Mar 9, 1:05 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | Dade | 25 min |
| Mar 9, 1:14 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | McDonald | 46 min |
| Mar 9, 1:25 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | Lawrence | 50 min |
| Mar 9, 1:29 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | Polk | 46 min |
| Mar 9, 1:31 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | Adams, Bond, Brown, Calhoun, Clinton, Fayette and 11 more | 285 days |
| Mar 9, 1:49 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | Greene | 41 min |
| Mar 9, 1:52 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | Camden, Dallas | 38 min |
| Mar 9, 1:56 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | Barry | 49 min |
| Mar 9, 2:17 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | Laclede | 43 min |
The nearest sounding before it
Springfield, MO (KSGF), launched 00:00Z, 5.8 hours before the alert went out and 129 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
- 217 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -139 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 955 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 54 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 282 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 414 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.2
- Supercell composite
- 0.9
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 | Adams, Brown, Bureau, Carroll, Fulton, Hancock and 14 more | 5 hr |
| Mar 9, 4:00 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Boone, Bureau, Champaign, Cook, DeKalb, DeWitt and 33 more | 4 hr |
| Mar 8, 9:00 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Andrew, Atchison, Buchanan, Caldwell, Cass, Clay and 17 more | 5 hr |
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.