Alert archive / Texas / Severe Thunderstorm Watches in 2002
Severe Thunderstorm Watch 306
The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at May 16, 2002, 4:30 PM MDT for 5 states. It was in force for 6 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- May 16, 2002, 4:30 PM MDT (22:30 UTC)
- Expired
- May 16, 2002, 10:00 PM MDT
- In force
- 6 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
All 31 counties
Baca County, CO, Bent County, CO, Crowley County, CO, Kiowa County, CO, Las Animas County, CO, Otero County, CO, Prowers County, CO, Pueblo County, CO, Grant County, KS, Greeley County, KS, Hamilton County, KS, Haskell County, KS, Kearny County, KS, Morton County, KS, Seward County, KS, Stanton County, KS, Stevens County, KS, Union County, NM, Beaver County, OK, Cimarron County, OK, Texas County, OK, Dallam County, TX, Hansford County, TX, Hartley County, TX, Hemphill County, TX, Hutchinson County, TX, Lipscomb County, TX, Moore County, TX, Ochiltree County, TX, Roberts County, TX, Sherman County, TX
The radar
The Dodge City radar (KDDC), 198 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:31 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
20 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 16, 5:11 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AMA | Sherman | 49 min |
| May 16, 5:16 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | Baca | 59 min |
| May 16, 5:27 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AMA | Moore | 48 min |
| May 16, 5:36 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AMA | Cimarron, Texas | 54 min |
| May 16, 6:07 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AMA | Hemphill | 38 min |
| May 16, 6:20 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | Baca | 55 min |
| May 16, 6:20 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AMA | Hutchinson, Moore | 55 min |
| May 16, 6:32 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AMA | Texas | 58 min |
| May 16, 6:38 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AMA | Cimarron | 52 min |
| May 16, 6:43 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AMA | Hansford, Sherman | 62 min |
| May 16, 7:23 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AMA | Hutchinson | 37 min |
| May 16, 7:30 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AMA | Hemphill | 60 min |
| May 16, 7:35 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AMA | Cimarron, Texas | 40 min |
| May 16, 7:50 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AMA | Roberts | 55 min |
| May 16, 8:09 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AMA | Texas | 51 min |
| May 16, 8:12 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AMA | Texas | 48 min |
| May 16, 8:39 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AMA | Texas | 51 min |
| May 16, 8:46 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AMA | Roberts | 44 min |
| May 16, 8:53 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AMA | Hemphill | 82 min |
| May 16, 9:18 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AMA | Hemphill | 57 min |
The nearest sounding before it
Amarillo Airport, TX (KAMA), launched 12:00Z, 10.5 hours before the alert went out and 246 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
- 326 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -410 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 2056 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 30 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 156 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 146 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 15, 8:30 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Barton, Cloud, Ellis, Ellsworth, Harvey, Jewell and 19 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.