Alert archive / Missouri / Severe Thunderstorm Watches in 2002
Severe Thunderstorm Watch 234
The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at May 5, 2002, 9:00 PM CDT for 14 counties in Kansas; 33 counties in Missouri. It was in force for 5 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- May 5, 2002, 9:00 PM CDT (02:00 UTC)
- Expired
- May 6, 2002, 2:00 AM CDT
- In force
- 5 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
All 47 counties
Anderson County, KS, Atchison County, KS, Coffey County, KS, Doniphan County, KS, Douglas County, KS, Franklin County, KS, Jefferson County, KS, Johnson County, KS, Leavenworth County, KS, Linn County, KS, Miami County, KS, Osage County, KS, Shawnee County, KS, Wyandotte County, KS, Adair County, MO, Andrew County, MO, Bates County, MO, Benton County, MO, Buchanan County, MO, Caldwell County, MO, Carroll County, MO, Cass County, MO, Chariton County, MO, Clay County, MO, Clinton County, MO, Daviess County, MO, DeKalb County, MO, Gentry County, MO, Grundy County, MO, Harrison County, MO, Henry County, MO, Holt County, MO, Jackson County, MO, Johnson County, MO, Lafayette County, MO, Linn County, MO, Livingston County, MO, Mercer County, MO, Nodaway County, MO, Pettis County, MO, Platte County, MO, Putnam County, MO, Ray County, MO, Saline County, MO, Schuyler County, MO, Sullivan County, MO, Worth County, MO
Warnings issued inside it
9 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 5, 9:22 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Atchison | 38 min |
| May 5, 9:30 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Leavenworth, Wyandotte | 60 min |
| May 5, 9:46 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Clay, Platte | 59 min |
| May 5, 11:16 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Clay, Jackson | 44 min |
| May 6, 12:16 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Holt | 44 min |
| May 6, 12:43 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Andrew | 47 min |
| May 6, 1:09 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Buchanan, DeKalb | 51 min |
| May 6, 1:18 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Clinton | 42 min |
| May 6, 1:36 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Caldwell | 39 min |
The nearest sounding before it
Topeka, KS (KTOP), launched 00:00Z, 2.0 hours before the alert went out and 91 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
- 1298 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -86 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1520 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 47 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 42 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 88 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.2
- Supercell composite
- 2.3
SPC that day
Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 6, 2:00 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Miami | 5 hr |
| May 6, 5:00 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Allen, Anderson, Atchison, Barber, Barton, Brown and 47 more | 6 hr |
| May 6, 7:45 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Audrain, Benton, Boone, Callaway, Camden, Cole and 36 more | 4 hr |
| May 6, 10:45 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Bollinger, Camden, Cape Girardeau, Carter, Crawford, Dallas and 30 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.