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Severe Thunderstorm Watch 622

August 20, 20029 counties in Colorado; 13 counties in Nebraska

The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at Aug 20, 2002, 12:50 PM MDT for 9 counties in Colorado; 13 counties in Nebraska. It was in force for 5 hr.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued
Aug 20, 2002, 12:50 PM MDT (18:50 UTC)
Expired
Aug 20, 2002, 6:00 PM MDT
In force
5 hr
Issued by
the Storm Prediction Center
All 22 counties

Cheyenne County, CO, Elbert County, CO, Kit Carson County, CO, Lincoln County, CO, Logan County, CO, Phillips County, CO, Sedgwick County, CO, Washington County, CO, Yuma County, CO, Arthur County, NE, Chase County, NE, Cherry County, NE, Cheyenne County, NE, Deuel County, NE, Dundy County, NE, Garden County, NE, Grant County, NE, Hooker County, NE, Keith County, NE, McPherson County, NE, Perkins County, NE, Sheridan County, NE

The radar

The Goodland radar (KGLD), 142 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:50 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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Warnings issued inside it

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Aug 20, 3:44 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLBFGarden61 min

The nearest sounding before it

N. Platte/Lee Bi, NE (KLBF), launched 12:00Z, 6.8 hours before the alert went out and 206 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, N. Platte/Lee Bi, NE at 12:00Z on 2002-08-20Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 792 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, N. Platte/Lee Bi, NE at 12:00Z on 2002-08-20The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 130 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
792 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-495 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
556 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
19 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
130 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
96 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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SPC that day

Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Aug 20, 5:55 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPCAntelope, Blaine, Boyd, Brown, Cedar, Cherry and 12 more6 hr

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Watches in Nebraska, 2002Severe Thunderstorm Watches in Colorado, 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.