Alert archive / Missouri / Severe Thunderstorm Watches in 2002
Severe Thunderstorm Watch 244
The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at May 6, 2002, 10:00 PM CDT for 24 counties in Kansas; 32 counties in Missouri. It was in force for 6 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- May 6, 2002, 10:00 PM CDT (03:00 UTC)
- Expired
- May 7, 2002, 4:00 AM CDT
- In force
- 6 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
All 56 counties
Anderson County, KS, Atchison County, KS, Chase County, KS, Clay County, KS, Coffey County, KS, Dickinson County, KS, Douglas County, KS, Franklin County, KS, Geary County, KS, Jackson County, KS, Jefferson County, KS, Johnson County, KS, Leavenworth County, KS, Linn County, KS, Lyon County, KS, Marion County, KS, Miami County, KS, Morris County, KS, Osage County, KS, Pottawatomie County, KS, Riley County, KS, Shawnee County, KS, Wabaunsee County, KS, Wyandotte County, KS, Audrain County, MO, Bates County, MO, Benton County, MO, Boone County, MO, Buchanan County, MO, Caldwell County, MO, Callaway County, MO, Carroll County, MO, Cass County, MO, Chariton County, MO, Clay County, MO, Clinton County, MO, Cole County, MO, Cooper County, MO, Henry County, MO, Howard County, MO, Jackson County, MO, Johnson County, MO, Lafayette County, MO, Linn County, MO, Livingston County, MO, Macon County, MO, Moniteau County, MO, Monroe County, MO, Morgan County, MO, Osage County, MO, Pettis County, MO, Platte County, MO, Randolph County, MO, Ray County, MO, Saline County, MO, Shelby County, MO
The radar
The Pleasant Hill radar (KEAX), 74 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 03:01 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
24 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 6, 10:10 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Chase | 65 min |
| May 6, 10:20 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Lafayette | 55 min |
| May 6, 10:29 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Leavenworth | 61 min |
| May 6, 10:30 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Clay, Platte | 60 min |
| May 6, 10:45 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Wyandotte | 45 min |
| May 6, 11:02 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Cooper, Howard, Saline | 58 min |
| May 6, 11:13 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Johnson | 62 min |
| May 6, 11:29 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Jackson | 61 min |
| May 6, 11:31 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Carroll | 59 min |
| May 6, 11:34 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Clay | 41 min |
| May 6, 11:38 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Miami | 52 min |
| May 6, 11:42 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Cass | 63 min |
| May 6, 11:47 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Linn | 58 min |
| May 7, 12:13 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Bates | 62 min |
| May 7, 12:13 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | LSX | Audrain, Callaway | 62 min |
| May 7, 12:15 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Johnson | 60 min |
| May 7, 12:24 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Henry | 96 min |
| May 7, 12:53 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | LSX | Audrain, Boone, Callaway | 6 hr |
| May 7, 12:57 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Pettis | 63 min |
| May 7, 1:04 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EAX | Saline | 4 hr |
| May 7, 1:04 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | Benton | 56 min |
| May 7, 1:13 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Cooper | 62 min |
| May 7, 1:16 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EAX | Cooper | 4 hr |
| May 7, 1:16 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | Morgan | 59 min |
The nearest sounding before it
Topeka, KS (KTOP), launched 00:00Z, 3.0 hours before the alert went out and 50 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
- 3555 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -19 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 992 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 65 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 177 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 208 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 4.9
- Supercell composite
- 15.9
SPC that day
Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 7, 3:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Allen, Bourbon, Cherokee, Crawford, Greenwood, Labette and 4 more | 6 hr |
| May 7, 4:00 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Barber, Barton, Butler, Chase, Clay, Cloud and 28 more | 6 hr |
| May 7, 12:45 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Barton, Bates, Benton, Boone, Callaway, Camden and 31 more | 5 hr |
| May 7, 3:00 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Bollinger, Butler, Cape Girardeau, Carter, Dent, Douglas and 17 more | 5 hr |
| May 7, 3:30 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Atchison | 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.