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Severe Thunderstorm Watch 429

June 15, 20024 states

The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at Jun 15, 2002, 3:00 PM MDT for 4 states. It was in force for 6 hr.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued: Jun 15, 2002, 3:00 PM MDT (21:00 UTC)
Expired: Jun 15, 2002, 9:00 PM MDT
In force: 6 hr
Issued by: the Storm Prediction Center

All 77 counties

Baca County, CO, Prowers County, CO, Barber County, KS, Butler County, KS, Chase County, KS, Clark County, KS, Comanche County, KS, Cowley County, KS, Edwards County, KS, Finney County, KS, Ford County, KS, Grant County, KS, Gray County, KS, Hamilton County, KS, Harper County, KS, Harvey County, KS, Haskell County, KS, Hodgeman County, KS, Kearny County, KS, Kingman County, KS, Kiowa County, KS, Meade County, KS, Morton County, KS, Pawnee County, KS, Pratt County, KS, Reno County, KS, Sedgwick County, KS, Seward County, KS, Stafford County, KS, Stanton County, KS, Stevens County, KS, Sumner County, KS, Alfalfa County, OK, Beaver County, OK, Beckham County, OK, Blaine County, OK, Caddo County, OK, Canadian County, OK, Cimarron County, OK, Cleveland County, OK, Custer County, OK, Dewey County, OK, Ellis County, OK, Garfield County, OK, Grant County, OK, Harper County, OK, Kay County, OK, Kingfisher County, OK, Lincoln County, OK, Logan County, OK, Major County, OK, Noble County, OK, Oklahoma County, OK, Pawnee County, OK, Payne County, OK, Pottawatomie County, OK, Roger Mills County, OK, Seminole County, OK, Texas County, OK, Washita County, OK, Woods County, OK, Woodward County, OK, Carson County, TX, Dallam County, TX, Gray County, TX, Hansford County, TX, Hartley County, TX, Hemphill County, TX, Hutchinson County, TX, Lipscomb County, TX, Moore County, TX, Ochiltree County, TX, Oldham County, TX, Potter County, TX, Roberts County, TX, Sherman County, TX, Wheeler County, TX

The radar

The Dodge City radar (KDDC), 80 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:18 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

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 15, 3:06 PM MDT	Tornado Warning	ICT	Reno	39 min
Jun 15, 3:13 PM MDT	Tornado Warning	DDC	Finney, Haskell	32 min
Jun 15, 3:26 PM MDT	Flash Flood Warning	ICT	Butler	6 hr
Jun 15, 3:30 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Sedgwick	75 min
Jun 15, 3:44 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Reno	76 min
Jun 15, 3:47 PM MDT	Tornado Warning	DDC	Haskell	28 min
Jun 15, 3:48 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Gray	42 min
Jun 15, 3:54 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Morton	51 min
Jun 15, 3:57 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Harvey	63 min
Jun 15, 4:03 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Harper, Woods	42 min
Jun 15, 4:11 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Meade	49 min
Jun 15, 4:12 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Seward	48 min
Jun 15, 4:16 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Haskell	29 min
Jun 15, 4:25 PM MDT	Flash Flood Warning	ICT	Harvey, Reno	6 hr
Jun 15, 4:28 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Grant	47 min
Jun 15, 4:34 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Harper	56 min
Jun 15, 4:37 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Harper	53 min
Jun 15, 4:39 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Hamilton	51 min
Jun 15, 4:43 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Morton	47 min
Jun 15, 4:47 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Alfalfa, Woods	43 min
Jun 15, 4:49 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AMA	Hansford, Hutchinson	41 min
Jun 15, 4:52 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Stevens	38 min
Jun 15, 4:54 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AMA	Hartley, Moore	51 min
Jun 15, 4:56 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Seward	64 min
Jun 15, 4:57 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AMA	Beaver	63 min
Jun 15, 5:01 PM MDT	Flash Flood Warning	ICT	Sedgwick	4 hr
Jun 15, 5:15 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Garfield, Grant	60 min
Jun 15, 5:16 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Haskell	44 min
Jun 15, 5:17 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Kingman	58 min
Jun 15, 5:28 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AMA	Carson, Hutchinson, Potter	62 min
Jun 15, 5:30 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Harper	60 min
Jun 15, 5:34 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AMA	Lipscomb	56 min
Jun 15, 5:40 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Major	50 min
Jun 15, 5:44 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Sumner	91 min
Jun 15, 5:48 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AMA	Gray, Roberts	57 min
Jun 15, 5:55 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AMA	Hemphill	65 min
Jun 15, 6:07 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Dewey	38 min
Jun 15, 6:15 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Garfield, Kingfisher, Logan, Noble	45 min
Jun 15, 6:26 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Custer	64 min
Jun 15, 6:28 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AMA	Carson	47 min
Jun 15, 6:32 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Beckham, Roger Mills	58 min
Jun 15, 6:47 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AMA	Collingsworth, Donley, Wheeler	58 min
Jun 15, 6:51 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Canadian, Oklahoma	39 min
Jun 15, 7:03 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Caddo, Washita	57 min
Jun 15, 7:15 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Blaine	30 min
Jun 15, 7:28 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Beckham	32 min
Jun 15, 8:01 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Caddo, Comanche, Grady	59 min

The nearest sounding before it

Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 12:00Z, 9.0 hours before the alert went out and 82 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 15, 11:45 AM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	Baca, Prowers, Yuma	5 hr
Jun 15, 12:00 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	Bent, Crowley, Douglas, Elbert, El Paso, Huerfano and 6 more	5 hr

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Watches in Kansas, 2002 Severe Thunderstorm Watches in Oklahoma, 2002 Severe Thunderstorm Watches in Texas, 2002 Every 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.