Alert archive / Kansas / Severe Thunderstorm Watches in 2002
Severe Thunderstorm Watch 281
The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at May 11, 2002, 1:00 AM CDT for 17 counties in Kansas; 7 counties in Oklahoma; Lipscomb County, Texas. It was in force for 5 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- May 11, 2002, 1:00 AM CDT (06:00 UTC)
- Expired
- May 11, 2002, 6:00 AM CDT
- In force
- 5 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
All 25 counties
Barber County, KS, Clark County, KS, Comanche County, KS, Edwards County, KS, Ford County, KS, Gray County, KS, Harper County, KS, Haskell County, KS, Hodgeman County, KS, Kingman County, KS, Kiowa County, KS, Meade County, KS, Pawnee County, KS, Pratt County, KS, Seward County, KS, Stafford County, KS, Stevens County, KS, Alfalfa County, OK, Beaver County, OK, Ellis County, OK, Harper County, OK, Roger Mills County, OK, Woods County, OK, Woodward County, OK, Lipscomb County, TX
The radar
The Dodge City radar (KDDC), 72 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 06:04 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
3 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 11, 1:14 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Grant, Haskell | 46 min |
| May 11, 1:30 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AMA | Beaver | 30 min |
| May 11, 1:39 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Finney, Gray | 51 min |
The nearest sounding before it
Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 00:00Z, 6.0 hours before the alert went out and 73 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 666 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 63 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 305 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 368 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.2
SPC that day
Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 11, 2:30 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Barber, Barton, Clark, Clay, Cloud, Comanche and 29 more | 6 hr |
| May 10, 10:45 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Cotton, Tillman | 4 hr |
| May 11, 6:00 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Ellis, Harper, Roger Mills, Woods, Woodward | 5 hr |
| May 10, 8:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Bailey, Briscoe, Castro, Childress, Cochran, Collingsworth and 17 more | 5 hr |
| May 10, 11:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Armstrong, Carson, Collingsworth, Dallam, Deaf Smith, Donley and 14 more | 5 hr |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Watches in Kansas, 2002Severe Thunderstorm Watches in Oklahoma, 2002Severe Thunderstorm Watches in Texas, 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.