Alert archive / Kansas / Severe Thunderstorm Watches in 2002
Severe Thunderstorm Watch 305
The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at May 15, 2002, 9:30 PM CDT for 25 counties in Kansas; 14 counties in Nebraska. It was in force for 5 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- May 15, 2002, 9:30 PM CDT (02:30 UTC)
- Expired
- May 16, 2002, 2:00 AM CDT
- In force
- 5 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
All 39 counties
Barton County, KS, Cloud County, KS, Ellis County, KS, Ellsworth County, KS, Harvey County, KS, Jewell County, KS, Kingman County, KS, Lincoln County, KS, McPherson County, KS, Mitchell County, KS, Osborne County, KS, Ottawa County, KS, Pawnee County, KS, Phillips County, KS, Pratt County, KS, Reno County, KS, Republic County, KS, Rice County, KS, Rooks County, KS, Rush County, KS, Russell County, KS, Saline County, KS, Sedgwick County, KS, Smith County, KS, Stafford County, KS, Adams County, NE, Buffalo County, NE, Clay County, NE, Fillmore County, NE, Franklin County, NE, Hall County, NE, Hamilton County, NE, Harlan County, NE, Kearney County, NE, Nuckolls County, NE, Phelps County, NE, Thayer County, NE, Webster County, NE, York County, NE
The radar
The Grand Island radar (KUEX), 86 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 02:32 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
12 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 15, 9:48 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Furnas, Gosper, Kearney, Phelps | 57 min |
| May 15, 10:19 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Pratt | 41 min |
| May 15, 10:32 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Rush | 43 min |
| May 15, 11:01 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Pratt | 14 min |
| May 15, 11:13 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Rush | 47 min |
| May 15, 11:21 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Ellis | 39 min |
| May 15, 11:33 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Barton, Russell | 57 min |
| May 16, 12:27 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Barton | 33 min |
| May 16, 12:45 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | ICT | Rice | 30 min |
| May 16, 1:08 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | McPherson | 67 min |
| May 16, 1:12 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Rice | 33 min |
| May 16, 1:52 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | ICT | Rice | 4 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Topeka, KS (KTOP), launched 00:00Z, 2.5 hours before the alert went out and 230 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
- 27 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -444 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1321 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 41 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 115 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 204 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
SPC that day
Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 16, 5:30 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Grant, Greeley, Hamilton, Haskell, Kearny, Morton and 3 more | 6 hr |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Watches in Kansas, 2002Severe Thunderstorm Watches in Nebraska, 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.