Alert archive / Kansas / Severe Thunderstorm Watches in 2002
Severe Thunderstorm Watch 638
The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at Aug 26, 2002, 1:05 PM MDT for 6 counties in Colorado; 12 counties in Kansas; 9 counties in Nebraska. It was in force for 5 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Aug 26, 2002, 1:05 PM MDT (19:05 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 26, 2002, 6:00 PM MDT
- In force
- 5 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
All 27 counties
Cheyenne County, CO, Kit Carson County, CO, Logan County, CO, Phillips County, CO, Sedgwick County, CO, Yuma County, CO, Cheyenne County, KS, Decatur County, KS, Gove County, KS, Graham County, KS, Logan County, KS, Norton County, KS, Rawlins County, KS, Sheridan County, KS, Sherman County, KS, Thomas County, KS, Trego County, KS, Wallace County, KS, Chase County, NE, Dundy County, NE, Frontier County, NE, Furnas County, NE, Gosper County, NE, Hayes County, NE, Hitchcock County, NE, Perkins County, NE, Red Willow County, NE
The radar
The Goodland radar (KGLD), 104 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:09 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
21 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 26, 1:21 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Hitchcock | 54 min |
| Aug 26, 1:42 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Dundy | 63 min |
| Aug 26, 1:48 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Rawlins | 57 min |
| Aug 26, 2:01 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | GLD | Dundy | 29 min |
| Aug 26, 2:13 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | GLD | Cheyenne | 47 min |
| Aug 26, 2:14 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Hitchcock | 61 min |
| Aug 26, 2:32 PM MDT | Flash Flood Warning | GLD | Dundy, Hitchcock | 6 hr |
| Aug 26, 2:44 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Rawlins | 61 min |
| Aug 26, 3:01 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Cheyenne | 59 min |
| Aug 26, 3:21 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | GLD | Cheyenne | 39 min |
| Aug 26, 3:55 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | GLD | Rawlins | 50 min |
| Aug 26, 4:00 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Cheyenne | 60 min |
| Aug 26, 4:07 PM MDT | Flash Flood Warning | GLD | Cheyenne, Rawlins | 4 hr |
| Aug 26, 4:31 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Sherman | 59 min |
| Aug 26, 4:37 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Thomas | 53 min |
| Aug 26, 5:05 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Kit Carson | 55 min |
| Aug 26, 5:15 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Cheyenne | 60 min |
| Aug 26, 5:20 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Wallace | 55 min |
| Aug 26, 5:34 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Thomas | 41 min |
| Aug 26, 5:49 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Logan | 56 min |
| Aug 26, 5:55 PM MDT | Flash Flood Warning | GLD | Thomas | 4 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
N. Platte/Lee Bi, NE (KLBF), launched 12:00Z, 7.1 hours before the alert went out and 115 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
- 1929 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -185 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1191 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 45 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 122 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 120 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- -0.3
SPC that day
Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 26, 4:30 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Baca, Bent, Cheyenne, Kiowa, Kit Carson, Lincoln and 7 more | 6 hr |
| Aug 26, 12:15 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Arthur, Box Butte, Cherry, Cheyenne, Dawes, Garden and 8 more | 6 hr |
| Aug 26, 5:10 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Arthur, Banner, Box Butte, Cherry, Cheyenne, Dawes and 11 more | 5 hr |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Watches in Kansas, 2002Severe 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.