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Severe Thunderstorm Watch 426

May 24, 200313 counties in Colorado; Morton County, Kansas; Cimarron County, Oklahoma

The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at May 24, 2003, 2:05 PM MDT for 13 counties in Colorado; Morton County, Kansas; Cimarron County, Oklahoma. It was in force for 6 hr.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued
May 24, 2003, 2:05 PM MDT (20:05 UTC)
Expired
May 24, 2003, 8:00 PM MDT
In force
6 hr
Issued by
the Storm Prediction Center

Counties Baca County, CO, Bent County, CO, Cheyenne County, CO, Crowley County, CO, El Paso County, CO, Elbert County, CO, Kiowa County, CO, Kit Carson County, CO, Las Animas County, CO, Lincoln County, CO, Otero County, CO, Prowers County, CO, Pueblo County, CO, Morton County, KS, Cimarron County, OK

Warnings issued inside it

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
May 24, 2:42 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPUBFremont, Pueblo63 min
May 24, 2:53 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPUBEl Paso52 min
May 24, 3:19 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBOULincoln56 min
May 24, 3:30 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGLDCheyenne, Kit Carson60 min
May 24, 3:53 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPUBEl Paso67 min
May 24, 5:05 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPUBLas Animas115 min
May 24, 5:45 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBOUElbert, Lincoln60 min
May 24, 6:01 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPUBPueblo59 min
May 24, 7:01 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPUBOtero59 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

Denver, CO (KDNR), launched 12:00Z, 8.1 hours before the alert went out and 161 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, Denver, CO at 12:00Z on 2003-05-24Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 823 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Denver, CO at 12:00Z on 2003-05-24The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -17 square meters per square second.1939Sfc1 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
823 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-174 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
979 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
15 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-17 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
19 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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SPC that day

Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
May 23, 6:08 PM MDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCAdams, Arapahoe, Baca, Bent, Crowley, Denver and 13 more67 min
May 23, 7:56 PM MDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCLogan, Phillips, Sedgwick94 min
May 24, 12:05 PM MDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCLas Animas, Pueblo2 hr
May 24, 2:43 PM MDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCCheyenne, Kit Carson, Washington, Yuma92 min
May 24, 4:57 PM MDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCBaca, Bent, Cheyenne, Crowley, Elbert, El Paso and 7 more93 min
May 23, 10:18 PM MDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCBarton, Ellis, Ellsworth, Harvey, Jewell, Lincoln and 13 more117 min
May 23, 11:25 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPCBarber, Barton, Clark, Comanche, Decatur, Edwards and 28 more7 hr
May 24, 2:39 AM MDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCBarber, Barton, Clark, Comanche, Edwards, Ellis and 19 more2 hr
May 24, 12:03 AM MDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCBeaver, Beckham, Comanche, Custer, Dewey, Ellis and 10 more117 min
May 24, 4:33 AM MDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCAlfalfa, Blaine, Caddo, Canadian, Cleveland, Comanche and 18 more117 min
May 24, 8:24 AM MDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCAtoka, Cherokee, Coal, Creek, Haskell, Hughes and 14 more2 hr
May 24, 8:30 AM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPCAtoka, Choctaw, Coal, Creek, Haskell, Hughes and 15 more5 hr
May 24, 10:27 AM MDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCAtoka, Choctaw, Haskell, Latimer, Pushmataha93 min
May 24, 2:19 PM MDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCHarmon86 min
May 24, 4:39 PM MDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCBeckham, Caddo, Comanche, Cotton, Custer, Dewey and 8 more96 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Watches in Colorado, 2003Severe Thunderstorm Watches in Kansas, 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.