Alert archive / Colorado / Severe Thunderstorm Watches in 2002
Severe Thunderstorm Watch 651
The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at Aug 28, 2002, 6:45 PM MDT for 6 states. It was in force for 4 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Aug 28, 2002, 6:45 PM MDT (00:45 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 28, 2002, 11:00 PM MDT
- In force
- 4 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
All 33 counties
Baca County, CO, Bent County, CO, Cheyenne County, CO, Kiowa County, CO, Kit Carson County, CO, Lincoln County, CO, Logan County, CO, Phillips County, CO, Prowers County, CO, Washington County, CO, Yuma County, CO, Cheyenne County, KS, Greeley County, KS, Hamilton County, KS, Morton County, KS, Sherman County, KS, Stanton County, KS, Wallace County, KS, Wichita County, KS, Chase County, NE, Dundy County, NE, Quay County, NM, Union County, NM, Cimarron County, OK, Texas County, OK, Dallam County, TX, Deaf Smith County, TX, Hartley County, TX, Moore County, TX, Oldham County, TX, Potter County, TX, Randall County, TX, Sherman County, TX
The radar
The Pueblo radar (KPUX), 186 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:46 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
11 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 28, 6:45 PM MDT | Flash Flood Warning | PUB | Bent, Prowers | 4 hr |
| Aug 28, 6:46 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | Bent | 59 min |
| Aug 28, 6:47 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Yuma | 58 min |
| Aug 28, 7:00 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABQ | Quay | 60 min |
| Aug 28, 7:09 PM MDT | Flash Flood Warning | BOU | Washington | 3 hr |
| Aug 28, 7:16 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Kit Carson | 59 min |
| Aug 28, 7:21 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AMA | Cimarron | 39 min |
| Aug 28, 7:39 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BOU | Washington | 36 min |
| Aug 28, 7:42 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AMA | Dallam, Hartley | 33 min |
| Aug 28, 8:41 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABQ | Quay | 34 min |
| Aug 28, 10:57 PM MDT | Flash Flood Warning | GLD | Cheyenne, Rawlins | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Amarillo Airport, TX (KAMA), launched 00:00Z, 0.8 hours before the alert went out and 242 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
- 2480 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -14 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1339 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 29 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -34 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 127 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.3
- Supercell composite
- 2.3
SPC that day
Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 29, 1:05 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Garfield, Mesa, Moffat, Montrose, Rio Blanco | 7 hr |
| Aug 29, 2:45 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Adams, Arapahoe, Boulder, Broomfield, Denver, Douglas and 8 more | 7 hr |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Watches in Colorado, 2002Severe Thunderstorm Watches in Kansas, 2002Severe Thunderstorm Watches in Texas, 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.