Alert archive / Kansas / Severe Thunderstorm Watches in 2002
Severe Thunderstorm Watch 324
The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at May 24, 2002, 2:00 PM CDT for 15 counties in Kansas; 7 counties in Oklahoma. It was in force for 6 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- May 24, 2002, 2:00 PM CDT (19:00 UTC)
- Expired
- May 24, 2002, 8:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 6 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
All 22 counties
Allen County, KS, Bourbon County, KS, Butler County, KS, Chautauqua County, KS, Cherokee County, KS, Cowley County, KS, Crawford County, KS, Elk County, KS, Labette County, KS, Montgomery County, KS, Neosho County, KS, Sedgwick County, KS, Sumner County, KS, Wilson County, KS, Woodson County, KS, Craig County, OK, Kay County, OK, Noble County, OK, Nowata County, OK, Osage County, OK, Ottawa County, OK, Washington County, OK
The radar
The Wichita radar (KICT), 97 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:00 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
11 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 24, 6:07 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Butler | 53 min |
| May 24, 6:20 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Sumner | 55 min |
| May 24, 6:28 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Cowley | 62 min |
| May 24, 6:29 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Garfield, Grant, Kay | 61 min |
| May 24, 6:56 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Butler | 64 min |
| May 24, 7:07 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | ICT | Cowley | 5 hr |
| May 24, 7:25 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Cowley | 65 min |
| May 24, 7:33 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | ICT | Chautauqua, Elk | 4 hr |
| May 24, 7:40 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | ICT | Butler | 4 hr |
| May 24, 7:52 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | ICT | Sedgwick | 4 hr |
| May 24, 7:52 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Sedgwick, Sumner | 68 min |
The nearest sounding before it
Topeka, KS (KTOP), launched 12:00Z, 7.0 hours before the alert went out and 207 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
- 918 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 43 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 123 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 335 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 23, 9:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Barber, Clark, Comanche, Harper, Kingman, Kiowa and 6 more | 6 hr |
| May 24, 6:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Atchison, Barber, Barton, Brown, Butler, Chase and 45 more | 5 hr |
| May 24, 3:00 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Beckham, Blaine, Caddo, Canadian, Comanche, Cotton and 14 more | 6 hr |
Nearby
Severe 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.