Alert archive / Kansas / Severe Thunderstorm Watches in 2002
Severe Thunderstorm Watch 547
The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at Jul 28, 2002, 6:05 PM CDT for 28 counties in Kansas; Beaver County, Cimarron County, Texas County, Oklahoma; 8 counties in Texas. It was in force for 6 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 28, 2002, 6:05 PM CDT (23:05 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 29, 2002, 12:00 AM CDT
- In force
- 6 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
All 39 counties
Cheyenne County, KS, Decatur County, KS, Finney County, KS, Gove County, KS, Graham County, KS, Grant County, KS, Gray County, KS, Greeley County, KS, Hamilton County, KS, Haskell County, KS, Kearny County, KS, Lane County, KS, Logan County, KS, Meade County, KS, Morton County, KS, Ness County, KS, Norton County, KS, Rawlins County, KS, Scott County, KS, Seward County, KS, Sheridan County, KS, Sherman County, KS, Stanton County, KS, Stevens County, KS, Thomas County, KS, Trego County, KS, Wallace County, KS, Wichita County, KS, Beaver County, OK, Cimarron County, OK, Texas County, OK, Dallam County, TX, Hansford County, TX, Hartley County, TX, Hutchinson County, TX, Moore County, TX, Ochiltree County, TX, Roberts County, TX, Sherman County, TX
The radar
The Dodge City radar (KDDC), 139 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:08 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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Warnings issued inside it
5 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 28, 6:50 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AMA | Sherman | 70 min |
| Jul 28, 8:24 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AMA | Hansford | 36 min |
| Jul 28, 8:44 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Stanton | 46 min |
| Jul 28, 9:30 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Stanton | 30 min |
| Jul 28, 10:53 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AMA | Beaver | 67 min |
The nearest sounding before it
Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 12:00Z, 11.1 hours before the alert went out and 145 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
- 375 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -184 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1494 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 6 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -2 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 103 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 28, 4:50 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Barton, Clay, Cloud, Dickinson, Ellsworth, Jewell and 14 more | 5 hr |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Watches in Kansas, 2002Severe Thunderstorm Watches in Texas, 2002Severe Thunderstorm Watches in Oklahoma, 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.