Alert archive / Kansas / Severe Thunderstorm Watches in 2002
Severe Thunderstorm Watch 711
The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at Oct 1, 2002, 4:35 PM CDT for 4 counties in Iowa; 31 counties in Kansas; 23 counties in Nebraska. It was in force for 6 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Oct 1, 2002, 4:35 PM CDT (21:35 UTC)
- Expired
- Oct 1, 2002, 11:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 6 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
All 58 counties
Fremont County, IA, Mills County, IA, Montgomery County, IA, Page County, IA, Barton County, KS, Clay County, KS, Cloud County, KS, Ellis County, KS, Ellsworth County, KS, Finney County, KS, Gove County, KS, Graham County, KS, Hodgeman County, KS, Jewell County, KS, Lane County, KS, Lincoln County, KS, Logan County, KS, Marshall County, KS, Mitchell County, KS, Ness County, KS, Norton County, KS, Osborne County, KS, Ottawa County, KS, Pawnee County, KS, Phillips County, KS, Republic County, KS, Rooks County, KS, Rush County, KS, Russell County, KS, Scott County, KS, Sheridan County, KS, Smith County, KS, Trego County, KS, Washington County, KS, Wichita County, KS, Adams County, NE, Cass County, NE, Clay County, NE, Fillmore County, NE, Franklin County, NE, Gage County, NE, Hall County, NE, Hamilton County, NE, Harlan County, NE, Jefferson County, NE, Johnson County, NE, Kearney County, NE, Lancaster County, NE, Nemaha County, NE, Nuckolls County, NE, Otoe County, NE, Pawnee County, NE, Saline County, NE, Sarpy County, NE, Seward County, NE, Thayer County, NE, Webster County, NE, York County, NE
The radar
The Grand Island radar (KUEX), 133 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:35 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
12 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 1, 5:03 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OAX | Cass, Sarpy | 42 min |
| Oct 1, 5:11 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OAX | Jefferson, Saline | 34 min |
| Oct 1, 5:15 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OAX | Gage | 30 min |
| Oct 1, 5:16 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OAX | Lancaster | 44 min |
| Oct 1, 5:44 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OAX | Cass, Otoe | 46 min |
| Oct 1, 5:48 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Lane, Scott | 42 min |
| Oct 1, 6:07 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OAX | Lancaster | 23 min |
| Oct 1, 6:40 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OAX | Mills | 50 min |
| Oct 1, 7:20 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OAX | Montgomery | 40 min |
| Oct 1, 7:20 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OAX | Montgomery | 40 min |
| Oct 1, 8:05 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Logan | 25 min |
| Oct 1, 8:05 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Logan | 25 min |
The nearest sounding before it
Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 12:00Z, 9.6 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
- 99 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -315 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1579 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 27 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 187 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 150 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 1, 3:30 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Adair, Audubon, Boone, Buena Vista, Calhoun, Carroll and 41 more | 6 hr |
| Oct 1, 5:40 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Finney, Grant, Gray, Hamilton, Haskell, Kearny and 5 more | 5 hr |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Watches in Kansas, 2002Severe Thunderstorm Watches in Nebraska, 2002Severe Thunderstorm Watches in Iowa, 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.