Alert archive / Nebraska / Severe Thunderstorm Watches in 2003
Severe Thunderstorm Watch 297
The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at May 8, 2003, 4:15 AM CDT for 4 states. It was in force for 7 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- May 8, 2003, 4:15 AM CDT (09:15 UTC)
- Expired
- May 8, 2003, 11:00 AM CDT
- In force
- 7 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
All 107 counties
Adams County, IA, Appanoose County, IA, Clarke County, IA, Davis County, IA, Decatur County, IA, Fremont County, IA, Mills County, IA, Montgomery County, IA, Page County, IA, Ringgold County, IA, Taylor County, IA, Union County, IA, Wayne County, IA, Atchison County, KS, Brown County, KS, Clay County, KS, Cloud County, KS, Doniphan County, KS, Douglas County, KS, Jackson County, KS, Jefferson County, KS, Jewell County, KS, Johnson County, KS, Leavenworth County, KS, Marshall County, KS, Mitchell County, KS, Nemaha County, KS, Osborne County, KS, Ottawa County, KS, Phillips County, KS, Pottawatomie County, KS, Republic County, KS, Riley County, KS, Shawnee County, KS, Smith County, KS, Wabaunsee County, KS, Washington County, KS, Wyandotte County, KS, Adair County, MO, Andrew County, MO, Atchison County, MO, Buchanan County, MO, Caldwell County, MO, Carroll County, MO, Chariton County, MO, Clay County, MO, Clinton County, MO, Cooper County, MO, Daviess County, MO, DeKalb County, MO, Gentry County, MO, Grundy County, MO, Harrison County, MO, Holt County, MO, Howard County, MO, Jackson County, MO, Johnson County, MO, Lafayette County, MO, Linn County, MO, Livingston County, MO, Macon County, MO, Mercer County, MO, Nodaway County, MO, Pettis County, MO, Platte County, MO, Putnam County, MO, Ray County, MO, Saline County, MO, Schuyler County, MO, Sullivan County, MO, Worth County, MO, Adams County, NE, Buffalo County, NE, Butler County, NE, Cass County, NE, Clay County, NE, Douglas County, NE, Fillmore County, NE, Franklin County, NE, Gage County, NE, Greeley County, NE, Hall County, NE, Hamilton County, NE, Harlan County, NE, Howard County, NE, Jefferson County, NE, Johnson County, NE, Kearney County, NE, Lancaster County, NE, Merrick County, NE, Nance County, NE, Nemaha County, NE, Nuckolls County, NE, Otoe County, NE, Pawnee County, NE, Platte County, NE, Polk County, NE, Richardson County, NE, Saline County, NE, Sarpy County, NE, Saunders County, NE, Seward County, NE, Sherman County, NE, Thayer County, NE, Valley County, NE, Webster County, NE, York County, NE
The radar
The Omaha radar (KOAX), 95 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 09:14 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
3 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 8, 5:04 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | TOP | Geary, Riley | 26 min |
| May 8, 8:03 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Marshall, Nemaha | 57 min |
| May 8, 10:53 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Lafayette, Saline | 67 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, 9.3 hours before the alert went out and 183 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, 3:51 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Adair, Adams, Audubon, Cass, Clarke, Decatur and 13 more | 3 hr |
| May 8, 7:50 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Adams, Appanoose, Clarke, Davis, Decatur, Fremont and 7 more | 85 min |
| May 8, 7:55 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Adams, Appanoose, Clarke, Davis, Decatur, Fremont and 7 more | 95 min |
| May 8, 3:40 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Lee | 5 hr |
| May 8, 4:18 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Adair, Adams, Audubon, Carroll, Cass, Crawford and 11 more | 57 min |
| May 8, 5:30 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Adair, Adams, Audubon, Carroll, Cass, Crawford and 13 more | 6 hr |
| May 7, 7:01 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Cheyenne, Greeley, Sherman, Wallace, Wichita | 89 min |
| May 8, 1:18 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Allen, Barber, Barton, Bourbon, Butler, Chautauqua and 21 more | 3 hr |
| May 8, 1:55 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Allen, Anderson, Barber, Barton, Bourbon, Butler and 44 more | 5 hr |
| 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, 6:38 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Allen, Anderson, Atchison, Bourbon, Brown, Butler and 46 more | 2 hr |
| May 8, 9:55 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Dunklin, Pemiscot | 3 hr |
| May 8, 10:25 AM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Butler, Carter, Dunklin, Mississippi, New Madrid, Pemiscot and 3 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, 12:24 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Butler, Carter, Dunklin, Mississippi, New Madrid, Pemiscot and 3 more | 2 hr |
| May 8, 2:11 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Audrain, Knox, Lewis, Lincoln, Macon, Marion and 10 more | 2 hr |
| May 8, 5:31 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Barry, McDonald, Newton, Stone | 59 min |
| May 8, 5:45 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Barry, Lawrence, McDonald, Newton | 5 hr |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Watches in Nebraska, 2003Severe Thunderstorm Watches in Missouri, 2003Severe Thunderstorm Watches in Kansas, 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.