Alert archive / Kansas / Severe Thunderstorm Watches in 2002
Severe Thunderstorm Watch 631
The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at Aug 23, 2002, 10:15 PM MDT for 7 counties in Colorado; 18 counties in Kansas. It was in force for 6 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Aug 23, 2002, 10:15 PM MDT (04:15 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 24, 2002, 4:00 AM MDT
- In force
- 6 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
All 25 counties
Bent County, CO, Cheyenne County, CO, Crowley County, CO, Kiowa County, CO, Lincoln County, CO, Otero County, CO, Prowers County, CO, Clark County, KS, Finney County, KS, Ford County, KS, Grant County, KS, Gray County, KS, Greeley County, KS, Hamilton County, KS, Haskell County, KS, Hodgeman County, KS, Kearny County, KS, Lane County, KS, Logan County, KS, Meade County, KS, Ness County, KS, Scott County, KS, Stanton County, KS, Wallace County, KS, Wichita County, KS
The radar
The Goodland radar (KGLD), 119 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 04:19 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
9 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 23, 10:30 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Wichita | 30 min |
| Aug 23, 11:16 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Wichita | 44 min |
| Aug 23, 11:30 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Scott | 45 min |
| Aug 23, 11:59 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Wichita | 46 min |
| Aug 24, 12:02 AM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BOU | Lincoln | 43 min |
| Aug 24, 12:35 AM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Cheyenne | 55 min |
| Aug 24, 12:41 AM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Gray | 49 min |
| Aug 24, 1:03 AM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Ford | 57 min |
| Aug 24, 1:29 AM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Cheyenne | 61 min |
The nearest sounding before it
Denver, CO (KDNR), launched 00:00Z, 4.3 hours before the alert went out and 179 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
- 167 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -77 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 3250 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 42 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 21 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 113 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.2
SPC that day
Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 24, 1:15 PM MDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Logan, Phillips, Sedgwick | 7 hr |
| Aug 24, 5:20 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Kit Carson, Morgan, Washington, Yuma | 5 hr |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Watches in Kansas, 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.