Alert archive / Kansas / Severe Thunderstorm Watches in 2002
Severe Thunderstorm Watch 416
The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at Jun 11, 2002, 11:15 PM CDT for 14 counties in Kansas. It was in force for 3 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 11, 2002, 11:15 PM CDT (04:15 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 12, 2002, 2:00 AM CDT
- In force
- 3 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
Counties Clark County, KS, Finney County, KS, Ford County, KS, Grant County, KS, Gray County, KS, Hamilton County, KS, Haskell County, KS, Hodgeman County, KS, Kearny County, KS, Meade County, KS, Morton County, KS, Seward County, KS, Stanton County, KS, Stevens County, KS
The radar
The Dodge City radar (KDDC), 60 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 04:15 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
3 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 12, 12:17 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Finney | 58 min |
| Jun 12, 1:10 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Finney | 35 min |
| Jun 12, 1:25 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Hodgeman | 50 min |
The nearest sounding before it
Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 00:00Z, 4.3 hours before the alert went out and 66 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
- 651 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -38 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 2833 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 29 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 6 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 55 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.5
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, 9:15 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Allen, Anderson, Barber, Barton, Butler, Chase and 38 more | 5 hr |
| Jun 11, 10:15 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Bourbon, Cherokee, Crawford, Johnson, Linn, Miami | 4 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.