Alert archive / Kansas / Severe Thunderstorm Watches in 2002
Severe Thunderstorm Watch 414
The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at Jun 11, 2002, 9:15 PM CDT for 44 counties in Kansas. It was in force for 5 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 11, 2002, 9:15 PM CDT (02:15 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 12, 2002, 2:00 AM CDT
- In force
- 5 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
All 44 counties
Allen County, KS, Anderson County, KS, Barber County, KS, Barton County, KS, Butler County, KS, Chase County, KS, Chautauqua County, KS, Coffey County, KS, Comanche County, KS, Cowley County, KS, Dickinson County, KS, Douglas County, KS, Edwards County, KS, Elk County, KS, Ellis County, KS, Ellsworth County, KS, Franklin County, KS, Geary County, KS, Greenwood County, KS, Harper County, KS, Harvey County, KS, Kingman County, KS, Kiowa County, KS, Labette County, KS, Lyon County, KS, Marion County, KS, McPherson County, KS, Montgomery County, KS, Morris County, KS, Neosho County, KS, Osage County, KS, Pawnee County, KS, Pratt County, KS, Reno County, KS, Rice County, KS, Rush County, KS, Russell County, KS, Saline County, KS, Sedgwick County, KS, Stafford County, KS, Sumner County, KS, Wabaunsee County, KS, Wilson County, KS, Woodson County, KS
The radar
The Wichita radar (KICT), 41 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 02:14 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
16 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 11, 9:15 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Stafford | 45 min |
| Jun 11, 9:16 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Reno, Rice | 59 min |
| Jun 11, 9:32 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Pawnee | 43 min |
| Jun 11, 9:44 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Stafford | 16 min |
| Jun 11, 9:58 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Stafford | 62 min |
| Jun 11, 10:13 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Reno | 62 min |
| Jun 11, 10:14 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | ICT | Harvey | 6 hr |
| Jun 11, 10:28 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Sedgwick | 62 min |
| Jun 11, 10:33 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Pratt | 57 min |
| Jun 11, 10:34 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Harvey | 56 min |
| Jun 11, 11:06 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | ICT | Sedgwick | 6 hr |
| Jun 11, 11:15 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Stafford | 45 min |
| Jun 12, 1:05 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Sumner | 55 min |
| Jun 12, 1:19 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Montgomery | 56 min |
| Jun 12, 1:48 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Labette | 57 min |
| Jun 12, 1:53 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Pawnee | 52 min |
The nearest sounding before it
Lamont, OK (KLMN), launched 00:00Z, 2.3 hours before the alert went out and 136 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
- 20 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -9 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 8 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 37 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 115 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 166 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 10.8
SPC that day
Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 11, 8:30 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Cheyenne, Decatur, Gove, Graham, Greeley, Lane and 11 more | 6 hr |
| Jun 11, 10:15 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Bourbon, Cherokee, Crawford, Johnson, Linn, Miami | 4 hr |
| Jun 11, 11:15 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Clark, Finney, Ford, Grant, Gray, Hamilton and 8 more | 3 hr |
| Jun 12, 4:00 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Barber, Butler, Clark, Comanche, Cowley, Harper and 4 more | 5 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.