Alert archive / Kansas / Severe Thunderstorm Watches in 2003
Severe Thunderstorm Watch 34
The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at Mar 12, 2003, 2:30 PM CST for 37 counties in Kansas; 25 counties in Missouri. It was in force for 7 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Mar 12, 2003, 2:30 PM CST (20:30 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 12, 2003, 9:00 PM CST
- In force
- 7 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
All 62 counties
Allen County, KS, Anderson County, KS, Bourbon County, KS, Butler County, KS, Chase County, KS, Chautauqua County, KS, Cherokee County, KS, Coffey County, KS, Cowley County, KS, Crawford County, KS, Dickinson County, KS, Douglas County, KS, Elk County, KS, Franklin County, KS, Geary County, KS, Greenwood County, KS, Harvey County, KS, Johnson County, KS, Labette 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, Saline County, KS, Sedgwick County, KS, Shawnee County, KS, Sumner County, KS, Wabaunsee County, KS, Wilson County, KS, Woodson County, KS, Wyandotte County, KS, Barton County, MO, Bates County, MO, Benton County, MO, Camden County, MO, Cass County, MO, Cedar County, MO, Christian County, MO, Cooper County, MO, Dade County, MO, Dallas County, MO, Greene County, MO, Henry County, MO, Hickory County, MO, Jackson County, MO, Jasper County, MO, Johnson County, MO, Lafayette County, MO, Lawrence County, MO, Morgan County, MO, Pettis County, MO, Polk County, MO, Saline County, MO, St. Clair County, MO, Vernon County, MO, Webster County, MO
The radar
The Topeka radar (KTWX), 84 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:31 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
29 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 12, 5:21 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Greenwood | 54 min |
| Mar 12, 6:00 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Coffey | 60 min |
| Mar 12, 6:06 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Woodson | 54 min |
| Mar 12, 6:11 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Greenwood | 49 min |
| Mar 12, 6:19 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Elk | 56 min |
| Mar 12, 6:32 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Osage | 48 min |
| Mar 12, 6:37 PM CST | Tornado Warning | ICT | Woodson | 53 min |
| Mar 12, 6:50 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Wilson | 70 min |
| Mar 12, 6:57 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Douglas | 63 min |
| Mar 12, 6:58 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Osage, Shawnee | 62 min |
| Mar 12, 7:14 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Elk | 46 min |
| Mar 12, 7:19 PM CST | Tornado Warning | ICT | Allen | 56 min |
| Mar 12, 7:22 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Douglas, Franklin | 63 min |
| Mar 12, 7:25 PM CST | Tornado Warning | ICT | Woodson | 50 min |
| Mar 12, 7:27 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Leavenworth, Wyandotte | 63 min |
| Mar 12, 7:47 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Johnson | 58 min |
| Mar 12, 7:51 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Wilson | 54 min |
| Mar 12, 7:54 PM CST | Tornado Warning | ICT | Wilson | 66 min |
| Mar 12, 8:01 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Jackson | 59 min |
| Mar 12, 8:11 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Neosho | 64 min |
| Mar 12, 8:14 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Allen | 61 min |
| Mar 12, 8:21 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | Bourbon, Crawford | 39 min |
| Mar 12, 8:29 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Labette, Montgomery | 61 min |
| Mar 12, 8:33 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Wilson | 42 min |
| Mar 12, 8:33 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Johnson | 57 min |
| Mar 12, 8:36 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Miami | 39 min |
| Mar 12, 8:51 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Cass | 54 min |
| Mar 12, 8:55 PM CST | Tornado Warning | ICT | Labette, Neosho | 65 min |
| Mar 12, 8:57 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | Bourbon, Crawford | 48 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, 8.5 hours before the alert went out and 83 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
- 930 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 46 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 91 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 145 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
SPC that day
Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 12, 1:40 PM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Allen, Anderson, Bourbon, Butler, Chase, Chautauqua and 25 more | 2 hr |
| Mar 12, 5:52 PM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Allen, Anderson, Atchison, Bourbon, Brown, Butler and 35 more | 83 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.