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Severe Thunderstorm Watch 339

May 26, 200212 counties in Kansas; 33 counties in Nebraska

The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at May 26, 2002, 5:30 PM CDT for 12 counties in Kansas; 33 counties in Nebraska. It was in force for 6 hr.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued: May 26, 2002, 5:30 PM CDT (22:30 UTC)
Expired: May 26, 2002, 11:00 PM CDT
In force: 6 hr
Issued by: the Storm Prediction Center

All 45 counties

Cloud County, KS, Jewell County, KS, Lincoln County, KS, Mitchell County, KS, Norton County, KS, Osborne County, KS, Phillips County, KS, Republic County, KS, Rooks County, KS, Russell County, KS, Smith County, KS, Washington County, KS, Adams County, NE, Boone County, NE, Buffalo County, NE, Clay County, NE, Custer County, NE, Dawson County, NE, Fillmore County, NE, Franklin County, NE, Frontier County, NE, Furnas County, NE, Gage County, NE, Garfield County, NE, Gosper County, NE, Greeley County, NE, Hall County, NE, Hamilton County, NE, Harlan County, NE, Howard County, NE, Jefferson County, NE, Kearney County, NE, Merrick County, NE, Nance County, NE, Nuckolls County, NE, Phelps County, NE, Polk County, NE, Saline County, NE, Seward County, NE, Sherman County, NE, Thayer County, NE, Valley County, NE, Webster County, NE, Wheeler County, NE, York County, NE

The radar

The Grand Island radar (KUEX), 64 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:32 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.

Warnings issued inside it

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 26, 5:46 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	Sherman, Valley	59 min
May 26, 5:52 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	Franklin, Webster	53 min
May 26, 5:56 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	Osborne	64 min
May 26, 6:15 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	Greeley	60 min
May 26, 6:15 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Custer	60 min
May 26, 6:19 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Frontier	56 min
May 26, 6:19 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OAX	Boone	41 min
May 26, 6:28 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	LBF	Frontier	32 min
May 26, 6:31 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	Howard	59 min
May 26, 6:34 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	GID	Buffalo, Sherman	26 min
May 26, 6:47 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	GID	Howard	28 min
May 26, 6:48 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	GID	Hall	42 min
May 26, 6:50 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Russell	40 min
May 26, 6:50 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	Franklin	55 min
May 26, 6:57 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	GID	Franklin	63 min
May 26, 6:59 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	LBF	Frontier	31 min
May 26, 7:00 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	Osborne	60 min
May 26, 7:01 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	Buffalo	44 min
May 26, 7:09 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	GID	Merrick, Nance	51 min
May 26, 7:22 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	Kearney	53 min
May 26, 7:25 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	GID	Furnas	65 min
May 26, 7:27 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Barton, Russell	63 min
May 26, 7:27 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	GID	Hamilton	63 min
May 26, 7:30 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	GID	Kearney	45 min
May 26, 7:37 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	ICT	Barton, Russell	23 min
May 26, 7:38 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	GID	Polk, York	67 min
May 26, 7:40 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	GID	Smith	65 min
May 26, 7:41 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	Adams, Hall	64 min
May 26, 7:44 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	GID	Harlan, Phelps	61 min
May 26, 7:56 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	GID	Franklin	64 min
May 26, 7:58 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	GLD	Norton	62 min
May 26, 8:00 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	ICT	Barton, Russell	45 min
May 26, 8:05 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	OAX	Butler, Seward	55 min
May 26, 8:16 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	GID	Kearney	44 min
May 26, 8:20 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OAX	Saline	40 min
May 26, 8:42 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	GID	Smith	63 min
May 26, 8:47 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	Jewell	58 min
May 26, 8:47 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	GID	Harlan	43 min
May 26, 8:53 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	Nuckolls	67 min
May 26, 8:55 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OAX	Gage, Jefferson	65 min
May 26, 8:59 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OAX	Saline	31 min
May 26, 9:01 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	Franklin	44 min
May 26, 9:02 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Russell	43 min
May 26, 9:08 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	GID	Jewell	67 min
May 26, 9:12 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	Franklin	33 min
May 26, 9:25 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	Phillips	65 min
May 26, 9:31 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Barton, Russell	44 min
May 26, 9:40 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	ICT	Russell	50 min
May 26, 9:45 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	Smith	45 min
May 26, 9:48 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	Mitchell	57 min
May 26, 9:54 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	Osborne	66 min
May 26, 10:29 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	Jewell	46 min
May 26, 10:29 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Russell	46 min
May 26, 10:38 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	Rooks	67 min
May 26, 10:43 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	Mitchell	62 min
May 26, 10:48 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Lincoln	57 min
May 26, 10:56 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	Osborne	64 min

The nearest sounding before it

N. Platte/Lee Bi, NE (KLBF), launched 12:00Z, 10.5 hours before the alert went out and 164 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 4 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -560 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1662 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 33 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 184 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 160 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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SPC that day

Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 26, 3:00 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	Cheyenne, Decatur, Finney, Gove, Graham, Grant and 19 more	6 hr
May 26, 6:00 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	Barber, Barton, Clark, Comanche, Edwards, Ellsworth and 11 more	5 hr
May 26, 1:30 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	Arthur, Blaine, Boyd, Brown, Buffalo, Chase and 26 more	7 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.