Alert archive / Kansas / Severe Thunderstorm Watches in 2002
Severe Thunderstorm Watch 406
The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at Jun 10, 2002, 3:30 PM CDT for 21 counties in Kansas; 5 counties in Oklahoma; 13 counties in Texas. It was in force for 6 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 10, 2002, 3:30 PM CDT (20:30 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 10, 2002, 9:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 6 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
All 39 counties
Barton County, KS, Clark County, KS, Comanche County, KS, Edwards County, KS, Ellis County, KS, Ellsworth County, KS, Ford County, KS, Gray County, KS, Hodgeman County, KS, Kiowa County, KS, Lincoln County, KS, Meade County, KS, Ness County, KS, Pawnee County, KS, Pratt County, KS, Rice County, KS, Rush County, KS, Russell County, KS, Seward County, KS, Stafford County, KS, Trego County, KS, Beaver County, OK, Ellis County, OK, Harper County, OK, Roger Mills County, OK, Woodward County, OK, Armstrong County, TX, Carson County, TX, Collingsworth County, TX, Donley County, TX, Gray County, TX, Hansford County, TX, Hemphill County, TX, Hutchinson County, TX, Lipscomb County, TX, Ochiltree County, TX, Randall County, TX, Roberts County, TX, Wheeler County, TX
The radar
The Dodge City radar (KDDC), 149 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:31 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
21 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 10, 3:58 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Finney, Gray, Haskell | 47 min |
| Jun 10, 4:31 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AMA | Hutchinson | 44 min |
| Jun 10, 4:47 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Finney, Gray, Haskell | 43 min |
| Jun 10, 4:50 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Ness | 40 min |
| Jun 10, 5:03 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AMA | Hansford | 42 min |
| Jun 10, 5:13 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AMA | Ochiltree | 32 min |
| Jun 10, 5:34 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Ford, Gray | 56 min |
| Jun 10, 5:39 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Ness | 51 min |
| Jun 10, 5:46 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Meade | 44 min |
| Jun 10, 6:07 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DDC | Gray | 23 min |
| Jun 10, 6:22 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Clark | 53 min |
| Jun 10, 6:26 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AMA | Carson | 34 min |
| Jun 10, 6:32 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Gray | 43 min |
| Jun 10, 6:41 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Ford | 49 min |
| Jun 10, 6:59 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AMA | Carson, Gray | 31 min |
| Jun 10, 7:07 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AMA | Hemphill | 38 min |
| Jun 10, 7:14 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AMA | Hemphill | 31 min |
| Jun 10, 7:27 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DDC | Clark | 48 min |
| Jun 10, 7:29 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Ford | 46 min |
| Jun 10, 7:39 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Kiowa, Pratt | 51 min |
| Jun 10, 8:19 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Clark | 41 min |
The nearest sounding before it
W. Woodward Airport, OK (KWWR), launched 12:00Z, 8.5 hours before the alert went out and 87 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
- 1791 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -286 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 901 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 20 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 180 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 213 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 10, 6:15 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Clay, Cloud, Jewell, Lincoln, Mitchell, Osborne and 6 more | 6 hr |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Watches in Kansas, 2002Severe Thunderstorm Watches in Texas, 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.