Alert archive / Kansas / Severe Thunderstorm Watches in 2002
Severe Thunderstorm Watch 442
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.
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
11 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 19, 7:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Gosper | 45 min |
| Jun 19, 7:11 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Lincoln, Logan | 49 min |
| Jun 19, 7:13 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | GID | Phelps | 47 min |
| Jun 19, 7:15 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Gove, Sheridan | 60 min |
| Jun 19, 7:24 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Buffalo | 66 min |
| Jun 19, 7:57 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Finney, Kearny, Scott | 63 min |
| Jun 19, 7:58 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | GID | Buffalo | 47 min |
| Jun 19, 8:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Lincoln | 45 min |
| Jun 19, 8:26 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Hamilton, Kearny | 64 min |
| Jun 19, 9:25 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Hamilton, Stanton | 50 min |
| Jun 19, 9:43 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | DDC | Hamilton, Kearny | 3 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.
- 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
SPC that day
Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 19, 6:30 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Antelope, Boone, Cedar, Colfax, Cuming, Dakota and 10 more | 5 hr |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Watches in Kansas, 2002Severe Thunderstorm Watches in Nebraska, 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.