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Severe Thunderstorm Watch 427

June 15, 2002Baca County, Prowers County, Yuma County, Colorado; 35 counties in Kansas; 5 counties in Nebraska

The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at Jun 15, 2002, 11:45 AM MDT for Baca County, Prowers County, Yuma County, Colorado; 35 counties in Kansas; 5 counties in Nebraska. It was in force for 5 hr.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued
Jun 15, 2002, 11:45 AM MDT (17:45 UTC)
Expired
Jun 15, 2002, 5:00 PM MDT
In force
5 hr
Issued by
the Storm Prediction Center
All 43 counties

Baca County, CO, Prowers County, CO, Yuma County, CO, Cheyenne County, KS, Clark County, KS, Decatur County, KS, Ellis County, KS, Finney County, KS, Ford County, KS, Gove County, KS, Graham 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, Norton County, KS, Phillips County, KS, Rawlins County, KS, Rooks County, KS, Rush County, KS, Scott County, KS, Seward County, KS, Sheridan County, KS, Sherman County, KS, Stanton County, KS, Stevens County, KS, Thomas County, KS, Trego County, KS, Wallace County, KS, Wichita County, KS, Dundy County, NE, Furnas County, NE, Harlan County, NE, Hitchcock County, NE, Red Willow County, NE

The radar

The Goodland radar (KGLD), 124 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 17:48 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

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 15, 11:48 AM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGIDFurnas57 min
Jun 15, 12:00 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGIDHarlan60 min
Jun 15, 12:13 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGLDNorton62 min
Jun 15, 12:26 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGLDWichita64 min
Jun 15, 12:44 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGLDDecatur, Rawlins61 min
Jun 15, 12:46 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGIDPhillips, Smith59 min
Jun 15, 12:52 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCScott38 min
Jun 15, 1:04 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGIDRooks56 min
Jun 15, 1:14 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCLane, Ness46 min
Jun 15, 1:20 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCFinney, Kearny55 min
Jun 15, 1:29 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCScott61 min
Jun 15, 1:29 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGLDWichita46 min
Jun 15, 1:37 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGLDGraham53 min
Jun 15, 1:43 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCEllis62 min
Jun 15, 2:00 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCLane, Ness60 min
Jun 15, 2:02 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGIDRooks28 min
Jun 15, 2:03 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCLane, Ness57 min
Jun 15, 2:29 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCTrego61 min
Jun 15, 2:39 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCHodgeman21 min
Jun 15, 2:44 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCFord, Gray61 min
Jun 15, 3:13 PM MDTTornado WarningDDCFinney, Haskell32 min
Jun 15, 3:47 PM MDTTornado WarningDDCHaskell28 min
Jun 15, 3:48 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCGray42 min
Jun 15, 3:54 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCMorton51 min
Jun 15, 4:11 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCMeade49 min
Jun 15, 4:12 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCSeward48 min
Jun 15, 4:16 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCHaskell29 min
Jun 15, 4:28 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCGrant47 min
Jun 15, 4:39 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCHamilton51 min
Jun 15, 4:43 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCMorton47 min
Jun 15, 4:52 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCStevens38 min
Jun 15, 4:56 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCSeward64 min

The nearest sounding before it

Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 12:00Z, 5.8 hours before the alert went out and 133 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Dodge City, at 12:00Z on 2002-06-15Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 244 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Dodge City, at 12:00Z on 2002-06-15The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 184 square meters per square second.1939587897Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
244 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-290 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1401 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
49 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
184 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
194 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
2.7

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SPC that day

Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 15, 12:00 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPCBent, Crowley, Douglas, Elbert, El Paso, Huerfano and 6 more5 hr
Jun 15, 3:00 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPCBaca, Prowers6 hr

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Watches in Kansas, 2002Severe Thunderstorm Watches in Nebraska, 2002Severe Thunderstorm Watches in Colorado, 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.