Alert archive / Kansas / Severe Thunderstorm Watches in 2002
Severe Thunderstorm Watch 375
The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at Jun 3, 2002, 5:30 PM CDT for 23 counties in Kansas. It was in force for 6 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 3, 2002, 5:30 PM CDT (22:30 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 3, 2002, 11:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 6 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
All 23 counties
Clark County, KS, Finney County, KS, Ford County, KS, Gove County, KS, Grant County, KS, Gray County, KS, Greeley County, KS, Hamilton County, KS, Haskell County, KS, Hodgeman County, KS, Kearny County, KS, Lane County, KS, Logan County, KS, Meade County, KS, Morton County, KS, Ness County, KS, Scott County, KS, Seward County, KS, Stanton County, KS, Stevens County, KS, Trego County, KS, Wallace County, KS, Wichita County, KS
The radar
The Dodge City radar (KDDC), 96 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:31 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
3 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 3, 5:38 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Stanton | 52 min |
| Jun 3, 6:45 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Stevens | 30 min |
| Jun 3, 6:54 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Haskell | 81 min |
The nearest sounding before it
Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 12:00Z, 10.5 hours before the alert went out and 102 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
- 558 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -646 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 2029 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 12 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 182 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 200 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
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.