Alert archive / Kansas / Severe Thunderstorm Watches in 2003
Severe Thunderstorm Watch 295
The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at May 8, 2003, 1:55 AM CDT for 4 states. It was in force for 5 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- May 8, 2003, 1:55 AM CDT (06:55 UTC)
- Expired
- May 8, 2003, 7:00 AM CDT
- In force
- 5 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
All 78 counties
Benton County, AR, Carroll County, AR, Allen County, KS, Anderson County, KS, Barber County, KS, Barton County, KS, Bourbon County, KS, Butler County, KS, Chase County, KS, Chautauqua County, KS, Cherokee County, KS, Coffey County, KS, Comanche County, KS, Cowley County, KS, Crawford County, KS, Dickinson County, KS, Edwards County, KS, Elk County, KS, Ellis County, KS, Ellsworth County, KS, Franklin County, KS, Geary County, KS, Greenwood County, KS, Harper County, KS, Harvey County, KS, Kingman County, KS, Kiowa County, KS, Labette County, KS, Lincoln County, KS, Linn County, KS, Lyon County, KS, Marion County, KS, McPherson County, KS, Miami County, KS, Montgomery County, KS, Morris County, KS, Neosho County, KS, Osage County, KS, Ottawa County, KS, Pawnee County, KS, Pratt County, KS, Reno County, KS, Rice County, KS, Rush County, KS, Russell County, KS, Saline County, KS, Sedgwick County, KS, Stafford County, KS, Sumner County, KS, Wabaunsee County, KS, Wilson County, KS, Woodson County, KS, Barry County, MO, Barton County, MO, Bates County, MO, Benton County, MO, Cass County, MO, Cedar County, MO, Dade County, MO, Greene County, MO, Henry County, MO, Hickory County, MO, Jasper County, MO, Lawrence County, MO, McDonald County, MO, Newton County, MO, Polk County, MO, St. Clair County, MO, Stone County, MO, Vernon County, MO, Craig County, OK, Delaware County, OK, Grant County, OK, Kay County, OK, Nowata County, OK, Osage County, OK, Ottawa County, OK, Washington County, OK
The radar
The Wichita radar (KICT), 36 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 06:58 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
7 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 8, 3:27 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Dickinson, Morris | 33 min |
| May 8, 3:34 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Ellsworth | 41 min |
| May 8, 4:01 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Morris | 44 min |
| May 8, 4:09 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Dickinson | 36 min |
| May 8, 4:47 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Dickinson, Geary | 28 min |
| May 8, 5:04 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | TOP | Geary, Riley | 26 min |
| May 8, 6:39 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Woodson | 66 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 00:00Z, 6.9 hours before the alert went out and 198 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
- 2036 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 55 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 6 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 145 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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</html>SPC that day
Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 8, 1:18 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Benton, Garland, Grant, Hot Spring, Lincoln, Montgomery and 2 more | 3 hr |
| May 8, 5:02 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Crawford, Franklin, Howard, Johnson, Logan, Madison and 8 more | 2 hr |
| May 8, 6:20 AM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Crawford, Franklin, Logan, Montgomery, Scott, Sebastian and 1 more | 3 hr |
| May 8, 7:33 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Crawford, Franklin, Johnson, Logan, Montgomery, Scott and 2 more | 87 min |
| May 8, 8:25 AM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Baxter, Boone, Cleburne, Conway, Craighead, Crittenden and 18 more | 5 hr |
| May 8, 9:55 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Mississippi | 3 hr |
| May 8, 10:21 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Clay, Cleburne, Craighead, Greene, Independence, Izard and 8 more | 84 min |
| May 8, 10:25 AM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Clay, Craighead, Crittenden, Cross, Greene, Mississippi and 3 more | 6 hr |
| May 8, 11:59 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Clay, Cleburne, Craighead, Greene, Independence, Izard and 8 more | 2 hr |
| May 8, 12:24 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Clay, Craighead, Crittenden, Cross, Greene, Mississippi and 2 more | 2 hr |
| May 8, 5:31 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Benton, Carroll, Crawford, Franklin, Johnson, Logan and 4 more | 59 min |
| May 8, 5:45 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Benton, Crawford, Sebastian, Washington | 5 hr |
| May 8, 6:38 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Benton, Crawford, Washington | 2 hr |
| May 7, 7:01 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Cheyenne, Greeley, Sherman, Wallace, Wichita | 89 min |
| May 8, 3:51 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Atchison, Barber, Barton, Bourbon, Brown, Butler and 50 more | 3 hr |
| May 8, 4:15 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Atchison, Brown, Clay, Cloud, Doniphan, Douglas and 19 more | 7 hr |
| May 8, 7:50 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Atchison, Brown, Doniphan, Jackson, Jefferson, Leavenworth and 6 more | 85 min |
| May 8, 7:55 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Atchison, Brown, Doniphan, Jackson, Jefferson, Leavenworth and 6 more | 95 min |
| May 8, 12:49 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Harper, Sumner | 3 hr |
| May 8, 1:07 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Barton, Clay, Cloud, Dickinson, Ellis, Ellsworth and 16 more | 2 hr |
| May 8, 1:10 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Cheyenne, Decatur, Graham, Norton, Rawlins, Sheridan and 2 more | 2 hr |
| May 8, 1:30 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Cheyenne, Decatur, Gove, Graham, Logan, Norton and 6 more | 6 hr |
| May 8, 1:35 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Butler, Chautauqua, Cowley, Elk, Greenwood, Harper and 5 more | 7 hr |
| May 8, 1:50 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Anderson, Atchison, Brown, Chase, Clay, Cloud and 31 more | 7 hr |
| May 8, 3:26 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Brown, Clay, Cloud, Dickinson, Ellsworth, Geary and 22 more | 2 hr |
| May 8, 3:34 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Butler, Chase, Chautauqua, Coffey, Cowley, Elk and 10 more | 116 min |
| May 8, 3:35 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Cheyenne, Decatur, Gove, Graham, Logan, Norton and 6 more | 115 min |
| May 8, 4:16 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Allen, Anderson, Atchison, Bourbon, Cherokee, Crawford and 11 more | 29 min |
| May 8, 4:40 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Allen, Anderson, Atchison, Bourbon, Cherokee, Crawford and 13 more | 6 hr |
| May 8, 12:20 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Audrain, Franklin, Iron, Jefferson, Lincoln, Macon and 14 more | 4 hr |
| May 8, 2:11 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Audrain, Knox, Lewis, Lincoln, Macon, Marion and 10 more | 2 hr |
| May 7, 8:01 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Beckham, Caddo, Comanche, Cotton, Greer, Harmon and 4 more | 59 min |
| May 7, 10:35 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Alfalfa, Blaine, Caddo, Canadian, Cherokee, Cleveland and 29 more | 55 min |
| May 7, 10:35 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Beckham, Bryan, Carter, Coal, Comanche, Cotton and 13 more | 5 hr |
| May 7, 10:55 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Adair, Alfalfa, Beckham, Blaine, Caddo, Canadian and 39 more | 5 hr |
| May 7, 11:51 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Beckham, Bryan, Carter, Coal, Comanche, Cotton and 13 more | 54 min |
| May 8, 1:57 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Atoka, Beckham, Bryan, Carter, Coal, Comanche and 14 more | 2 hr |
| May 8, 3:50 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Adair, Atoka, Bryan, Cherokee, Choctaw, Coal and 25 more | 3 hr |
| May 8, 4:47 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Canadian, Cleveland, Grady, Lincoln, Logan, McClain and 3 more | 58 min |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Watches in Kansas, 2003Severe Thunderstorm Watches in Missouri, 2003Severe Thunderstorm Watches in Oklahoma, 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.