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Severe Thunderstorm Watch 442

June 19, 200219 counties in Kansas; 13 counties in Nebraska

The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at Jun 19, 2002, 4:45 PM CDT for 19 counties in Kansas; 13 counties in Nebraska. It was in force for 5 hr.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued
Jun 19, 2002, 4:45 PM CDT (21:45 UTC)
Expired
Jun 19, 2002, 10:00 PM CDT
In force
5 hr
Issued by
the Storm Prediction Center
All 32 counties

Decatur County, KS, Finney County, KS, Gove County, KS, Graham County, KS, Greeley County, KS, Hamilton County, KS, Kearny County, KS, Lane County, KS, Logan County, KS, Ness County, KS, Norton County, KS, Phillips County, KS, Rawlins County, KS, Scott County, KS, Sheridan County, KS, Thomas County, KS, Trego County, KS, Wallace County, KS, Wichita County, KS, Buffalo County, NE, Dawson County, NE, Frontier County, NE, Furnas County, NE, Gosper County, NE, Harlan County, NE, Hayes County, NE, Hitchcock County, NE, Kearney County, NE, Lincoln County, NE, Phelps County, NE, Red Willow County, NE, Sherman County, NE

The radar

The Goodland radar (KGLD), 83 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:47 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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Warnings issued inside it

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 19, 7:00 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGIDGosper45 min
Jun 19, 7:11 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLBFLincoln, Logan49 min
Jun 19, 7:13 PM CDTTornado WarningGIDPhelps47 min
Jun 19, 7:15 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGLDGove, Sheridan60 min
Jun 19, 7:24 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGIDBuffalo66 min
Jun 19, 7:57 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCFinney, Kearny, Scott63 min
Jun 19, 7:58 PM CDTTornado WarningGIDBuffalo47 min
Jun 19, 8:00 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLBFLincoln45 min
Jun 19, 8:26 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCHamilton, Kearny64 min
Jun 19, 9:25 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCHamilton, Stanton50 min
Jun 19, 9:43 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningDDCHamilton, Kearny3 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 12:00Z, 9.8 hours before the alert went out and 175 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 2002-06-19Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1341 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 2002-06-19The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 143 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 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
1341 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-518 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1356 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
18 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
143 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
182 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.5

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SPC that day

Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 19, 6:30 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPCAntelope, Boone, Cedar, Colfax, Cuming, Dakota and 10 more5 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.