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Severe Thunderstorm Watch 295

May 8, 20034 states

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.

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Warnings issued inside it

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
May 8, 3:27 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTOPDickinson, Morris33 min
May 8, 3:34 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningICTEllsworth41 min
May 8, 4:01 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTOPMorris44 min
May 8, 4:09 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTOPDickinson36 min
May 8, 4:47 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTOPDickinson, Geary28 min
May 8, 5:04 AM CDTTornado WarningTOPGeary, Riley26 min
May 8, 6:39 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningICTWoodson66 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.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Topeka, KS at 00:00Z on 2003-05-08Temperature 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 00:00Z on 2003-05-08The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 6 square meters per square second.1939587897117136Sfc1 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
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

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

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SPC that day

Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
May 8, 1:18 AM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCBenton, Garland, Grant, Hot Spring, Lincoln, Montgomery and 2 more3 hr
May 8, 5:02 AM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCCrawford, Franklin, Howard, Johnson, Logan, Madison and 8 more2 hr
May 8, 6:20 AM CDTTornado WatchSPCCrawford, Franklin, Logan, Montgomery, Scott, Sebastian and 1 more3 hr
May 8, 7:33 AM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCCrawford, Franklin, Johnson, Logan, Montgomery, Scott and 2 more87 min
May 8, 8:25 AM CDTTornado WatchSPCBaxter, Boone, Cleburne, Conway, Craighead, Crittenden and 18 more5 hr
May 8, 9:55 AM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCMississippi3 hr
May 8, 10:21 AM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCClay, Cleburne, Craighead, Greene, Independence, Izard and 8 more84 min
May 8, 10:25 AM CDTTornado WatchSPCClay, Craighead, Crittenden, Cross, Greene, Mississippi and 3 more6 hr
May 8, 11:59 AM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCClay, Cleburne, Craighead, Greene, Independence, Izard and 8 more2 hr
May 8, 12:24 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCClay, Craighead, Crittenden, Cross, Greene, Mississippi and 2 more2 hr
May 8, 5:31 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCBenton, Carroll, Crawford, Franklin, Johnson, Logan and 4 more59 min
May 8, 5:45 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCBenton, Crawford, Sebastian, Washington5 hr
May 8, 6:38 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCBenton, Crawford, Washington2 hr
May 7, 7:01 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCCheyenne, Greeley, Sherman, Wallace, Wichita89 min
May 8, 3:51 AM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCAtchison, Barber, Barton, Bourbon, Brown, Butler and 50 more3 hr
May 8, 4:15 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPCAtchison, Brown, Clay, Cloud, Doniphan, Douglas and 19 more7 hr
May 8, 7:50 AM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCAtchison, Brown, Doniphan, Jackson, Jefferson, Leavenworth and 6 more85 min
May 8, 7:55 AM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCAtchison, Brown, Doniphan, Jackson, Jefferson, Leavenworth and 6 more95 min
May 8, 12:49 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCHarper, Sumner3 hr
May 8, 1:07 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCBarton, Clay, Cloud, Dickinson, Ellis, Ellsworth and 16 more2 hr
May 8, 1:10 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCCheyenne, Decatur, Graham, Norton, Rawlins, Sheridan and 2 more2 hr
May 8, 1:30 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCCheyenne, Decatur, Gove, Graham, Logan, Norton and 6 more6 hr
May 8, 1:35 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCButler, Chautauqua, Cowley, Elk, Greenwood, Harper and 5 more7 hr
May 8, 1:50 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCAnderson, Atchison, Brown, Chase, Clay, Cloud and 31 more7 hr
May 8, 3:26 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCBrown, Clay, Cloud, Dickinson, Ellsworth, Geary and 22 more2 hr
May 8, 3:34 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCButler, Chase, Chautauqua, Coffey, Cowley, Elk and 10 more116 min
May 8, 3:35 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCCheyenne, Decatur, Gove, Graham, Logan, Norton and 6 more115 min
May 8, 4:16 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCAllen, Anderson, Atchison, Bourbon, Cherokee, Crawford and 11 more29 min
May 8, 4:40 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCAllen, Anderson, Atchison, Bourbon, Cherokee, Crawford and 13 more6 hr
May 8, 12:20 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPCAudrain, Franklin, Iron, Jefferson, Lincoln, Macon and 14 more4 hr
May 8, 2:11 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCAudrain, Knox, Lewis, Lincoln, Macon, Marion and 10 more2 hr
May 7, 8:01 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCBeckham, Caddo, Comanche, Cotton, Greer, Harmon and 4 more59 min
May 7, 10:35 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCAlfalfa, Blaine, Caddo, Canadian, Cherokee, Cleveland and 29 more55 min
May 7, 10:35 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCBeckham, Bryan, Carter, Coal, Comanche, Cotton and 13 more5 hr
May 7, 10:55 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPCAdair, Alfalfa, Beckham, Blaine, Caddo, Canadian and 39 more5 hr
May 7, 11:51 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCBeckham, Bryan, Carter, Coal, Comanche, Cotton and 13 more54 min
May 8, 1:57 AM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCAtoka, Beckham, Bryan, Carter, Coal, Comanche and 14 more2 hr
May 8, 3:50 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPCAdair, Atoka, Bryan, Cherokee, Choctaw, Coal and 25 more3 hr
May 8, 4:47 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCCanadian, Cleveland, Grady, Lincoln, Logan, McClain and 3 more58 min

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.