Alert archive / Missouri / Severe Thunderstorm Watches in 2002
Severe Thunderstorm Watch 259
The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at May 8, 2002, 8:00 PM CDT for 12 counties in Kansas; 17 counties in Missouri; Ottawa County, Oklahoma. It was in force for 6 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- May 8, 2002, 8:00 PM CDT (01:00 UTC)
- Expired
- May 9, 2002, 2:00 AM CDT
- In force
- 6 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
All 30 counties
Allen County, KS, Anderson County, KS, Bourbon County, KS, Chautauqua County, KS, Cherokee County, KS, Crawford County, KS, Labette County, KS, Linn County, KS, Montgomery County, KS, Neosho County, KS, Wilson County, KS, Woodson County, KS, Barton County, MO, Bates County, MO, Benton County, MO, Camden County, MO, Cedar County, MO, Christian County, MO, Dade County, MO, Dallas County, MO, Greene County, MO, Hickory County, MO, Jasper County, MO, Lawrence County, MO, Miller County, MO, Newton County, MO, Polk County, MO, St. Clair County, MO, Vernon County, MO, Ottawa County, OK
The radar
The Springfield radar (KSGF), 132 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:01 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
16 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 8, 8:06 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ICT | Chautauqua | 54 min |
| May 8, 8:20 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Montgomery | 55 min |
| May 8, 8:38 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Linn | 52 min |
| May 8, 8:39 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | Polk | 21 min |
| May 8, 8:43 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | Bourbon | 47 min |
| May 8, 8:52 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Labette | 53 min |
| May 8, 9:04 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Bates | 56 min |
| May 8, 9:37 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | SGF | Cherokee, Crawford | 38 min |
| May 8, 9:40 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | Barton, Cedar, Dade, St. Clair, Vernon | 65 min |
| May 8, 10:17 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | SGF | Crawford | 3 hr |
| May 8, 10:31 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | Newton | 44 min |
| May 8, 10:41 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | SGF | Benton | 3 hr |
| May 8, 10:46 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | Dallas, Polk | 44 min |
| May 8, 10:49 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | Greene | 41 min |
| May 8, 11:38 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | SGF | Miller | 3 hr |
| May 9, 1:17 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | ICT | Labette | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Springfield, MO (KSGF), launched 00:00Z, 1.0 hours before the alert went out and 111 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
- 1675 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -36 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 811 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 53 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 285 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 375 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 2.9
- Supercell composite
- 13.6
SPC that day
Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 8, 8:30 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Audrain, Boone, Callaway, Cole, Cooper, Franklin and 20 more | 6 hr |
| May 8, 9:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Clark, Scotland | 5 hr |
| May 8, 9:00 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Adair, Alfalfa, Blaine, Cherokee, Craig, Creek and 17 more | 5 hr |
| May 9, 1:15 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Adair, Cherokee, Coal, Creek, Haskell, Hughes and 10 more | 5 hr |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Watches in Missouri, 2002Severe Thunderstorm Watches in Kansas, 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.