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Tornado Watch 226

May 5, 200234 counties in Kansas

The Storm Prediction Center issued this tornado watch at May 5, 2002, 2:45 PM CDT for 34 counties in Kansas. It was in force for 6 hr.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued: May 5, 2002, 2:45 PM CDT (19:45 UTC)
Expired: May 5, 2002, 9:00 PM CDT
In force: 6 hr
Issued by: the Storm Prediction Center

All 34 counties

Barton County, KS, Clark County, KS, Comanche County, KS, Edwards County, KS, Ellis County, KS, Finney County, KS, Ford County, KS, Gove County, KS, Graham County, KS, Grant County, KS, Gray County, KS, Haskell County, KS, Hodgeman County, KS, Jewell County, KS, Kiowa County, KS, Lane County, KS, Lincoln County, KS, Meade County, KS, Mitchell County, KS, Ness County, KS, Norton County, KS, Osborne County, KS, Pawnee County, KS, Phillips County, KS, Rooks County, KS, Rush County, KS, Russell County, KS, Scott County, KS, Seward County, KS, Sheridan County, KS, Smith County, KS, Stafford County, KS, Stevens County, KS, Trego County, KS

The radar

The Dodge City radar (KDDC), 53 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:46 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.

Warnings issued inside it

30 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 5, 3:25 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Lane	65 min
May 5, 3:32 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Ellis	43 min
May 5, 3:36 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Trego	54 min
May 5, 3:49 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Ness	56 min
May 5, 3:54 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Graham	21 min
May 5, 4:06 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	Rooks	54 min
May 5, 4:11 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	Phillips	64 min
May 5, 4:14 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Ellis	46 min
May 5, 4:27 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Trego	63 min
May 5, 4:33 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	DDC	Ellis, Trego	12 min
May 5, 4:36 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	Smith	39 min
May 5, 4:43 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	DDC	Ness, Trego	47 min
May 5, 4:43 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	GID	Rooks	47 min
May 5, 4:45 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	GID	Smith	45 min
May 5, 4:46 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Russell	29 min
May 5, 5:02 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Ellis	58 min
May 5, 5:08 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	ICT	Russell	52 min
May 5, 5:11 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	GID	Osborne	49 min
May 5, 5:25 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Gray	35 min
May 5, 5:31 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	GID	Smith	44 min
May 5, 5:44 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Hodgeman	61 min
May 5, 5:57 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	ICT	Russell	63 min
May 5, 5:59 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Ellis	46 min
May 5, 6:10 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	ICT	Lincoln	65 min
May 5, 6:41 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Hodgeman	49 min
May 5, 6:56 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	ICT	Russell	64 min
May 5, 7:09 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Ness, Pawnee, Rush	81 min
May 5, 7:13 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	ICT	Lincoln	62 min
May 5, 8:29 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Rush	46 min
May 5, 8:38 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Barton	67 min

The nearest sounding before it

Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 12:00Z, 7.8 hours before the alert went out and 54 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.

Skew-T log-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.

Mixed-layer CAPE: 282 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -438 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1423 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 40 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 68 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 77 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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SPC that day

Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 5, 5:30 PM CDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	Atchison, Brown, Chase, Clay, Cloud, Dickinson and 19 more	6 hr

Nearby

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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.