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Severe Thunderstorm Watch 453

June 1, 200311 counties in Colorado; 9 counties in Kansas; 14 counties in Nebraska

The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at Jun 1, 2003, 12:30 PM MDT for 11 counties in Colorado; 9 counties in Kansas; 14 counties in Nebraska. It was in force for 6 hr.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued: Jun 1, 2003, 12:30 PM MDT (18:30 UTC)
Expired: Jun 1, 2003, 6:00 PM MDT
In force: 6 hr
Issued by: the Storm Prediction Center

All 34 counties

Cheyenne County, CO, Crowley County, CO, Kiowa County, CO, Kit Carson County, CO, Lincoln County, CO, Logan County, CO, Phillips County, CO, Pueblo County, CO, Sedgwick County, CO, Washington County, CO, Yuma County, CO, Cheyenne County, KS, Decatur County, KS, Greeley County, KS, Logan County, KS, Rawlins County, KS, Sherman County, KS, Thomas County, KS, Wallace County, KS, Wichita County, KS, Arthur County, NE, Chase County, NE, Custer County, NE, Dawson County, NE, Deuel County, NE, Dundy County, NE, Frontier County, NE, Hayes County, NE, Hitchcock County, NE, Keith County, NE, Lincoln County, NE, Logan County, NE, Perkins County, NE, Red Willow County, NE

The radar

The Goodland radar (KGLD), 68 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:30 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

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 1, 12:47 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Kit Carson	58 min
Jun 1, 1:15 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	Crowley, Otero	60 min
Jun 1, 1:22 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Cheyenne	53 min
Jun 1, 2:02 PM MDT	Tornado Warning	GLD	Cheyenne	43 min
Jun 1, 2:07 PM MDT	Tornado Warning	GLD	Sherman	53 min
Jun 1, 2:22 PM MDT	Tornado Warning	PUB	Kiowa	53 min
Jun 1, 2:26 PM MDT	Tornado Warning	GLD	Wallace	64 min
Jun 1, 2:45 PM MDT	Tornado Warning	GLD	Cheyenne	45 min
Jun 1, 2:58 PM MDT	Tornado Warning	GLD	Sherman	62 min
Jun 1, 4:09 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Greeley	51 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, 6.5 hours before the alert went out and 77 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 17 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -273 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 2241 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 10 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -28 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: -4 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.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 1, 2:10 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	Baca, Bent, Otero, Prowers	6 hr
Jun 1, 2:34 PM MDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Baca, Cheyenne, Kiowa, Kit Carson, Prowers	116 min
Jun 1, 11:46 AM MDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Cheyenne, Greeley, Hamilton, Kearny, Logan, Rawlins and 5 more	119 min
Jun 1, 4:03 PM MDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Barber, Barton, Comanche, Decatur, Edwards, Ellis and 25 more	57 min
Jun 1, 4:40 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	Barber, Barton, Clark, Cloud, Comanche, Decatur and 45 more	6 hr
Jun 1, 5:27 PM MDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Clark, Edwards, Finney, Ford, Grant, Gray and 9 more	63 min

Nearby

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