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Severe Thunderstorm Watch 133

April 19, 200313 counties in Kansas; 13 counties in Missouri

The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at Apr 19, 2003, 5:25 PM CDT for 13 counties in Kansas; 13 counties in Missouri. It was in force for 6 hr.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued
Apr 19, 2003, 5:25 PM CDT (22:25 UTC)
Expired
Apr 19, 2003, 11:00 PM CDT
In force
6 hr
Issued by
the Storm Prediction Center
All 26 counties

Anderson County, KS, Coffey County, KS, Douglas County, KS, Franklin County, KS, Greenwood County, KS, Johnson County, KS, Linn County, KS, Lyon County, KS, Miami County, KS, Osage County, KS, Shawnee County, KS, Wabaunsee County, KS, Wyandotte County, KS, Bates County, MO, Benton County, MO, Cass County, MO, Cooper County, MO, Henry County, MO, Howard County, MO, Jackson County, MO, Johnson County, MO, Lafayette County, MO, Moniteau County, MO, Morgan County, MO, Pettis County, MO, Saline County, MO

The radar

The Pleasant Hill radar (KEAX), 48 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:29 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

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Apr 19, 5:40 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningICTChase, Greenwood50 min
Apr 19, 5:53 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTOPCoffey, Franklin, Osage52 min
Apr 19, 6:17 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTOPShawnee28 min
Apr 19, 6:26 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTOPFranklin34 min
Apr 19, 6:26 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTOPCoffey, Lyon64 min
Apr 19, 6:30 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningICTGreenwood30 min
Apr 19, 6:48 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEAXMiami42 min
Apr 19, 6:53 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTOPAnderson, Coffey52 min
Apr 19, 7:07 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEAXJohnson38 min
Apr 19, 7:21 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEAXCass, Jackson39 min
Apr 19, 7:42 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEAXLinn48 min
Apr 19, 7:57 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEAXLafayette, Ray48 min
Apr 19, 9:28 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSGFBenton, St. Clair62 min
Apr 19, 10:02 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSGFMorgan58 min
Apr 19, 10:25 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLSXMoniteau35 min

Discussions around it

SPC mesoscale discussions over the same counties from four hours before the watch to its end.

The nearest sounding before it

Topeka, KS (KTOP), launched 12:00Z, 10.4 hours before the alert went out and 78 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Topeka, KS at 12:00Z on 2003-04-19Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Topeka, KS at 12:00Z on 2003-04-19The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 28 square meters per square second.1939587897Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
504 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
55 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
28 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
173 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.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Apr 18, 7:33 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCAtchison, Brown, Doniphan, Jefferson57 min
Apr 18, 11:08 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCButler, Chase, Coffey, Douglas, Franklin, Harvey and 12 more2 hr
Apr 19, 12:58 AM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCBarber, Comanche, Harper, Kingman, Sumner2 hr
Apr 19, 1:25 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPCBarber, Butler, Chautauqua, Comanche, Cowley, Edwards and 11 more7 hr
Apr 19, 3:18 AM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCBourbon, Chautauqua, Cherokee, Crawford, Labette, Montgomery and 2 more117 min
Apr 19, 4:52 AM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCBarber, Butler, Comanche, Cowley, Greenwood, Harper and 7 more113 min
Apr 19, 9:01 AM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCBourbon, Cherokee, Crawford, Labette, Linn3 hr
Apr 19, 1:10 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCBarber, Comanche, Harper, Kingman, Pratt, Sedgwick and 1 more2 hr
Apr 19, 1:15 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCBarber, Clark, Comanche, Cowley, Harper, Kingman and 2 more7 hr
Apr 19, 2:30 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCButler, Chautauqua, Cherokee, Cowley, Crawford, Elk and 4 more7 hr
Apr 19, 4:58 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCAnderson, Chase, Coffey, Douglas, Franklin, Greenwood and 9 more92 min
Apr 19, 5:50 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCHarper, Kingman, Sumner85 min
Apr 19, 6:07 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCChautauqua, Cherokee, Cowley, Crawford, Elk, Labette and 3 more83 min
Apr 19, 6:55 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPCBourbon, Cherokee, Crawford5 hr

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Watches in Kansas, 2003Severe Thunderstorm Watches in Missouri, 2003Every severe thunderstorm watch in 2003

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.