Alert archive / Kansas / Severe Thunderstorm Watches in 2002

Severe Thunderstorm Watch 327

May 24, 200251 counties in Kansas; 12 counties in Oklahoma

The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at May 24, 2002, 6:00 PM CDT for 51 counties in Kansas; 12 counties in Oklahoma. It was in force for 5 hr.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued
May 24, 2002, 6:00 PM CDT (23:00 UTC)
Expired
May 24, 2002, 11:00 PM CDT
In force
5 hr
Issued by
the Storm Prediction Center
All 63 counties

Atchison County, KS, Barber County, KS, Barton County, KS, Brown County, KS, Butler County, KS, Chase County, KS, Chautauqua County, KS, Clay County, KS, Cloud County, KS, Coffey County, KS, Cowley County, KS, Dickinson County, KS, Elk County, KS, Ellsworth County, KS, Geary County, KS, Greenwood County, KS, Harper County, KS, Harvey County, KS, Jackson County, KS, Jefferson County, KS, Jewell County, KS, Kingman County, KS, Lincoln County, KS, Lyon County, KS, Marion County, KS, Marshall County, KS, McPherson County, KS, Mitchell County, KS, Montgomery County, KS, Morris County, KS, Nemaha County, KS, Osage County, KS, Osborne County, KS, Ottawa County, KS, Pottawatomie County, KS, Pratt County, KS, Reno County, KS, Republic County, KS, Rice County, KS, Riley County, KS, Russell County, KS, Saline County, KS, Sedgwick County, KS, Shawnee County, KS, Smith County, KS, Stafford County, KS, Sumner County, KS, Wabaunsee County, KS, Washington County, KS, Wilson County, KS, Woodson County, KS, Alfalfa County, OK, Garfield County, OK, Grant County, OK, Kay County, OK, Major County, OK, Noble County, OK, Nowata County, OK, Osage County, OK, Pawnee County, OK, Rogers County, OK, Washington County, OK, Woods County, OK

The radar

The Wichita radar (KICT), 6 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:03 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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Warnings issued inside it

25 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
May 24, 6:05 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOUNMajor40 min
May 24, 6:07 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningICTButler53 min
May 24, 6:14 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningICTGreenwood61 min
May 24, 6:20 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningICTSumner55 min
May 24, 6:28 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningICTCowley62 min
May 24, 6:29 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOUNGarfield, Grant, Kay61 min
May 24, 6:33 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCPratt57 min
May 24, 6:42 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOUNAlfalfa, Blaine, Major, Woods48 min
May 24, 6:56 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningICTButler64 min
May 24, 7:07 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningICTCowley5 hr
May 24, 7:12 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningICTHarper63 min
May 24, 7:25 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningICTCowley65 min
May 24, 7:27 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOUNAlfalfa33 min
May 24, 7:30 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCPratt45 min
May 24, 7:31 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningICTGreenwood59 min
May 24, 7:33 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningICTChautauqua, Elk4 hr
May 24, 7:40 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningICTButler4 hr
May 24, 7:52 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningICTSedgwick4 hr
May 24, 7:52 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningICTSedgwick, Sumner68 min
May 24, 8:01 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningICTKingman59 min
May 24, 8:32 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningOUNKay118 min
May 24, 9:42 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningICTChautauqua63 min
May 24, 9:42 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTSAOsage48 min
May 24, 9:52 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningTOPCoffey, Douglas, Franklin, Lyon, Osage4 hr
May 24, 10:00 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTSANowata45 min

The nearest sounding before it

Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 12:00Z, 11.0 hours before the alert went out and 212 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.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Dodge City, at 12:00Z on 2002-05-24Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCLEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Dodge City, at 12:00Z on 2002-05-24The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 51 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.
Mixed-layer CAPE
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
620 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
73 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
51 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
563 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
4.5

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SPC that day

Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
May 23, 9:00 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPCBarber, Clark, Comanche, Harper, Kingman, Kiowa and 6 more6 hr
May 24, 2:00 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPCAllen, Bourbon, Butler, Chautauqua, Cherokee, Cowley and 9 more6 hr
May 24, 3:00 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCBeckham, Blaine, Caddo, Canadian, Comanche, Cotton and 14 more6 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.