Alert archive / Kansas / Severe Thunderstorm Watches in 2002
Severe Thunderstorm Watch 505
The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at Jul 10, 2002, 3:00 PM CDT for 25 counties in Kansas; 23 counties in Missouri. It was in force for 5 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 10, 2002, 3:00 PM CDT (20:00 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 10, 2002, 8:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 5 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
All 48 counties
Allen County, KS, Anderson County, KS, Bourbon County, KS, Butler County, KS, Chase County, KS, Cherokee County, KS, Coffey County, KS, Crawford County, KS, Dickinson County, KS, Elk County, KS, Franklin County, KS, Greenwood County, KS, Harvey County, KS, Labette County, KS, Linn County, KS, Lyon County, KS, Marion County, KS, Miami County, KS, Montgomery County, KS, Morris County, KS, Neosho County, KS, Osage County, KS, Sedgwick County, KS, Wilson County, KS, Woodson County, KS, Barton County, MO, Bates County, MO, Camden County, MO, Cedar County, MO, Christian County, MO, Dade County, MO, Dallas County, MO, Douglas County, MO, Greene County, MO, Hickory County, MO, Jasper County, MO, Laclede County, MO, Lawrence County, MO, Newton County, MO, Ozark County, MO, Polk County, MO, Pulaski County, MO, St. Clair County, MO, Stone County, MO, Taney County, MO, Vernon County, MO, Webster County, MO, Wright County, MO
The radar
The Pleasant Hill radar (KEAX), 128 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:02 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
4 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 10, 4:14 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | Greene, Polk | 46 min |
| Jul 10, 4:28 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Greenwood | 62 min |
| Jul 10, 5:33 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Montgomery, Wilson | 57 min |
| Jul 10, 5:51 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Sedgwick | 54 min |
The nearest sounding before it
Topeka, KS (KTOP), launched 12:00Z, 8.0 hours before the alert went out and 108 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
- 1902 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -141 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1721 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 20 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -12 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -15 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 10, 7:30 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Adair, Caldwell, Daviess, Gentry, Grundy, Harrison and 8 more | 5 hr |
| Jul 10, 1:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Bollinger, Callaway, Camden, Carter, Cole, Crawford and 25 more | 5 hr |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Watches in Kansas, 2002Severe Thunderstorm Watches in Missouri, 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.