Alert archive / Kansas / Severe Thunderstorm Watches in 2003
Severe Thunderstorm Watch 424
The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at May 24, 2003, 12:25 AM CDT for 34 counties in Kansas. It was in force for 7 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- May 24, 2003, 12:25 AM CDT (05:25 UTC)
- Expired
- May 24, 2003, 7:00 AM CDT
- In force
- 7 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
All 34 counties
Barber County, KS, Barton County, KS, Clark County, KS, Comanche County, KS, Decatur County, KS, Edwards County, KS, Ellis County, KS, Finney County, KS, Ford County, KS, Gove County, KS, Graham County, KS, Gray County, KS, Harper County, KS, Hodgeman County, KS, Kingman County, KS, Kiowa County, KS, Lane County, KS, Meade County, KS, Ness County, KS, Norton County, KS, Osborne County, KS, Pawnee County, KS, Phillips County, KS, Pratt County, KS, Rawlins County, KS, Rooks County, KS, Rush County, KS, Russell County, KS, Scott County, KS, Sheridan County, KS, Smith County, KS, Stafford County, KS, Thomas County, KS, Trego County, KS
Warnings issued inside it
15 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 24, 12:46 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Gray | 44 min |
| May 24, 1:14 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Edwards, Ford, Hodgeman | 46 min |
| May 24, 1:29 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Gray | 61 min |
| May 24, 1:32 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Pratt | 43 min |
| May 24, 1:44 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | DDC | Gray | 46 min |
| May 24, 1:58 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Edwards | 62 min |
| May 24, 2:10 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Finney | 50 min |
| May 24, 2:29 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Gray | 46 min |
| May 24, 2:34 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Gove | 56 min |
| May 24, 2:48 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Scott | 57 min |
| May 24, 2:59 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Lane | 61 min |
| May 24, 3:18 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Osborne, Rooks, Smith | 57 min |
| May 24, 3:57 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Kingman | 63 min |
| May 24, 4:14 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Lincoln, Russell | 46 min |
| May 24, 6:17 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Barber | 43 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
Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 00:00Z, 5.4 hours before the alert went out and 125 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
- 1125 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -104 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1040 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 48 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 9 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 159 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.3
- Supercell composite
- 2.7
SPC that day
Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 23, 11:18 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Barton, Ellis, Ellsworth, Harvey, Jewell, Lincoln and 13 more | 117 min |
| May 24, 3:39 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Barber, Barton, Clark, Comanche, Edwards, Ellis and 19 more | 2 hr |
| May 24, 3:05 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Morton | 6 hr |
| May 24, 3:43 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Cheyenne, Edwards, Finney, Ford, Gove, Gray and 16 more | 92 min |
| May 24, 5:57 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Morton | 93 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.