Alert archive / Kansas / Severe Thunderstorm Watches in 2003
Severe Thunderstorm Watch 457
The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at Jun 1, 2003, 5:40 PM CDT for 51 counties in Kansas. It was in force for 6 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 1, 2003, 5:40 PM CDT (22:40 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 2, 2003, 12:00 AM CDT
- In force
- 6 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
All 51 counties
Barber County, KS, Barton County, KS, Clark County, KS, Cloud County, KS, Comanche County, KS, Decatur County, KS, Edwards County, KS, Ellis County, KS, Ellsworth County, KS, Finney County, KS, Ford County, KS, Gove County, KS, Graham County, KS, Grant County, KS, Gray County, KS, Hamilton County, KS, Haskell County, KS, Hodgeman County, KS, Jewell County, KS, Kearny County, KS, Kingman County, KS, Kiowa County, KS, Lane County, KS, Lincoln County, KS, Logan County, KS, Meade County, KS, Mitchell County, KS, Morton County, KS, Ness County, KS, Norton County, KS, Osborne County, KS, Pawnee County, KS, Phillips County, KS, Pratt County, KS, Rawlins County, KS, Reno County, KS, Republic County, KS, Rice County, KS, Rooks County, KS, Rush County, KS, Russell County, KS, Scott County, KS, Seward County, KS, Sheridan County, KS, Smith County, KS, Stafford County, KS, Stanton County, KS, Stevens County, KS, Thomas County, KS, Trego County, KS, Wichita County, KS
The radar
The Dodge City radar (KDDC), 56 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:43 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
7 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 1, 5:43 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Hamilton | 47 min |
| Jun 1, 5:48 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Stanton | 42 min |
| Jun 1, 5:55 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Grant, Kearny | 65 min |
| Jun 1, 6:36 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Finney | 39 min |
| Jun 1, 7:04 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Gray | 41 min |
| Jun 1, 7:09 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Finney | 36 min |
| Jun 1, 8:05 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Meade | 40 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 12:00Z, 10.7 hours before the alert went out and 57 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
- 1037 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 21 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 165 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 182 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 1, 12:46 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Cheyenne, Greeley, Hamilton, Kearny, Logan, Rawlins and 5 more | 119 min |
| Jun 1, 1:30 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Cheyenne, Decatur, Greeley, Logan, Rawlins, Sherman and 3 more | 6 hr |
| Jun 1, 3:10 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Grant, Hamilton, Haskell, Kearny, Morton, Seward and 2 more | 6 hr |
| Jun 1, 3:34 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Cheyenne, Decatur, Finney, Gove, Grant, Gray and 18 more | 116 min |
| Jun 1, 5:03 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Barber, Barton, Comanche, Decatur, Edwards, Ellis and 25 more | 57 min |
| Jun 1, 6:27 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Clark, Edwards, Finney, Ford, Grant, Gray and 9 more | 63 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.