Alert archive / Colorado / Severe Thunderstorm Watches in 2003
Severe Thunderstorm Watch 289
The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at May 7, 2003, 3:05 PM MDT for 10 counties in Colorado; 5 counties in Kansas; 9 counties in Nebraska. It was in force for 6 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- May 7, 2003, 3:05 PM MDT (21:05 UTC)
- Expired
- May 7, 2003, 9:00 PM MDT
- In force
- 6 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
All 24 counties
Cheyenne County, CO, Kiowa County, CO, Kit Carson County, CO, Lincoln County, CO, Logan County, CO, Morgan County, CO, Phillips County, CO, Sedgwick County, CO, Washington County, CO, Yuma County, CO, Cheyenne County, KS, Greeley County, KS, Sherman County, KS, Wallace County, KS, Wichita County, KS, Banner County, NE, Chase County, NE, Cheyenne County, NE, Deuel County, NE, Dundy County, NE, Garden County, NE, Kimball County, NE, Morrill County, NE, Scotts Bluff County, NE
The radar
The Goodland radar (KGLD), 136 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:08 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
6 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 7, 3:57 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CYS | Kimball | 33 min |
| May 7, 4:05 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CYS | Cheyenne | 25 min |
| May 7, 4:11 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Garden | 64 min |
| May 7, 4:31 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CYS | Morrill | 29 min |
| May 7, 8:12 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Yuma | 63 min |
| May 7, 8:14 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Yuma | 61 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
Denver, CO (KDNR), launched 12:00Z, 9.1 hours before the alert went out and 89 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1592 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 46 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 32 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 61 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
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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.