Alert archive / Missouri / Severe Thunderstorm Watches in 2002
Severe Thunderstorm Watch 475
The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at Jun 26, 2002, 4:15 PM CDT for 18 counties in Kansas; 31 counties in Missouri. It was in force for 5 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 26, 2002, 4:15 PM CDT (21:15 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 26, 2002, 9:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 5 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
All 49 counties
Atchison County, KS, Brown County, KS, Coffey County, KS, Doniphan County, KS, Douglas County, KS, Franklin County, KS, Jackson County, KS, Jefferson County, KS, Johnson County, KS, Leavenworth County, KS, Lyon County, KS, Miami County, KS, Nemaha County, KS, Osage County, KS, Pottawatomie County, KS, Shawnee County, KS, Wabaunsee County, KS, Wyandotte County, KS, Adair County, MO, Andrew County, MO, Boone County, MO, Buchanan County, MO, Caldwell County, MO, Carroll County, MO, Cass County, MO, Chariton County, MO, Clay County, MO, Clinton County, MO, Cooper County, MO, Daviess County, MO, DeKalb County, MO, Gentry County, MO, Grundy County, MO, Harrison County, MO, Howard County, MO, Jackson County, MO, Johnson County, MO, Lafayette County, MO, Linn County, MO, Livingston County, MO, Macon County, MO, Mercer County, MO, Pettis County, MO, Platte County, MO, Putnam County, MO, Randolph County, MO, Ray County, MO, Saline County, MO, Sullivan County, MO
The radar
The Pleasant Hill radar (KEAX), 87 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:14 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
6 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 26, 4:22 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Andrew | 53 min |
| Jun 26, 4:43 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Doniphan | 62 min |
| Jun 26, 5:55 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Clay | 65 min |
| Jun 26, 5:57 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | TOP | Brown | 3 hr |
| Jun 26, 6:14 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Jackson | 61 min |
| Jun 26, 8:22 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Lyon | 53 min |
The nearest sounding before it
Topeka, KS (KTOP), launched 12:00Z, 9.3 hours before the alert went out and 79 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
- 384 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -162 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1341 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 14 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -21 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 32 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
SPC that day
Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 26, 4:30 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Clark, Scotland | 5 hr |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Watches in Missouri, 2002Severe Thunderstorm Watches in Kansas, 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.