Alert archive / Kansas / Severe Thunderstorm Watches in 2002
Severe Thunderstorm Watch 630
The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at Aug 23, 2002, 5:55 PM MDT for 6 counties in Colorado; 7 counties in Kansas; Chase County, Dundy County, Perkins County, Nebraska. It was in force for 6 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Aug 23, 2002, 5:55 PM MDT (23:55 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 24, 2002, 12:00 AM MDT
- In force
- 6 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
Counties Kit Carson County, CO, Logan County, CO, Phillips County, CO, Sedgwick County, CO, Washington County, CO, Yuma County, CO, Cheyenne County, KS, Gove County, KS, Logan County, KS, Rawlins County, KS, Sherman County, KS, Thomas County, KS, Wallace County, KS, Chase County, NE, Dundy County, NE, Perkins County, NE
The radar
The Goodland radar (KGLD), 81 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:55 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
13 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 23, 5:56 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Logan | 64 min |
| Aug 23, 6:11 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BOU | Logan, Sedgwick | 64 min |
| Aug 23, 6:13 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Yuma | 62 min |
| Aug 23, 6:19 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Kit Carson | 56 min |
| Aug 23, 6:59 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Logan | 61 min |
| Aug 23, 7:14 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Kit Carson | 61 min |
| Aug 23, 8:09 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Wallace | 66 min |
| Aug 23, 8:16 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Sherman | 59 min |
| Aug 23, 8:29 PM MDT | Flash Flood Warning | GLD | Kit Carson | 3 hr |
| Aug 23, 8:36 PM MDT | Flash Flood Warning | GLD | Sherman | 3 hr |
| Aug 23, 8:41 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Logan, Thomas | 64 min |
| Aug 23, 9:35 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Gove, Sheridan | 55 min |
| Aug 23, 9:44 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Logan | 46 min |
The nearest sounding before it
Denver, CO (KDNR), launched 12:00Z, 11.9 hours before the alert went out and 109 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 2017 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 46 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 37 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 30 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 22, 6:40 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Burt, Cass, Dodge, Douglas, Fillmore, Gage and 13 more | 5 hr |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Watches in Kansas, 2002Severe Thunderstorm Watches in Colorado, 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.