Alert archive / Kansas / Severe Thunderstorm Watches in 2003
Severe Thunderstorm Watch 48
The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at Mar 17, 2003, 1:55 PM CST for 21 counties in Kansas; 16 counties in Oklahoma. It was in force for 5 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Mar 17, 2003, 1:55 PM CST (19:55 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 17, 2003, 7:00 PM CST
- In force
- 5 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
All 37 counties
Barber County, KS, Barton County, KS, Clark County, KS, Comanche County, KS, Edwards County, KS, Ford County, KS, Gray County, KS, Harper County, KS, Hodgeman County, KS, Kingman County, KS, Kiowa County, KS, Lane County, KS, Ness County, KS, Pawnee County, KS, Pratt County, KS, Reno County, KS, Rice County, KS, Rush County, KS, Scott County, KS, Stafford County, KS, Sumner County, KS, Alfalfa County, OK, Blaine County, OK, Custer County, OK, Dewey County, OK, Garfield County, OK, Grant County, OK, Harper County, OK, Kay County, OK, Kingfisher County, OK, Lincoln County, OK, Logan County, OK, Major County, OK, Noble County, OK, Payne County, OK, Woods County, OK, Woodward County, OK
The radar
The Vance AFB radar (KVNX), 84 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:55 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
16 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 17, 3:33 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Lincoln, Payne | 42 min |
| Mar 17, 3:38 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Sumner | 52 min |
| Mar 17, 4:08 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Comanche | 52 min |
| Mar 17, 4:43 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Sumner | 62 min |
| Mar 17, 4:49 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Harper | 56 min |
| Mar 17, 4:54 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Garfield | 36 min |
| Mar 17, 5:06 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Kingman, Reno | 54 min |
| Mar 17, 5:32 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Blaine | 43 min |
| Mar 17, 5:32 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Kingfisher | 58 min |
| Mar 17, 5:38 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Harper | 67 min |
| Mar 17, 5:40 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Sumner | 65 min |
| Mar 17, 5:51 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Kingman | 54 min |
| Mar 17, 5:54 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Reno | 66 min |
| Mar 17, 6:21 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Woodward | 54 min |
| Mar 17, 6:31 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Kingfisher, Logan | 59 min |
| Mar 17, 6:40 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Kingman | 50 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, 7.9 hours before the alert went out and 122 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
- 336 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -208 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1354 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 35 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -11 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 26 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 17, 11:40 AM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Barber, Clark, Comanche | 3 hr |
| Mar 17, 2:47 PM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Barber, Comanche, Edwards, Ford, Harper, Hodgeman and 6 more | 118 min |
| Mar 17, 3:24 PM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Cheyenne, Finney, Logan, Meade, Scott, Smith | 2 hr |
| Mar 16, 8:09 PM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Beckham, Greer, Harmon, Jackson | 3 hr |
| Mar 17, 12:45 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Bryan, Caddo, Canadian, Carter, Cleveland, Coal and 19 more | 6 hr |
| Mar 17, 3:02 PM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Carter, Jefferson, Love | 118 min |
| Mar 17, 5:50 PM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Bryan, Caddo, Canadian, Carter, Cleveland, Coal and 19 more | 5 hr |
Nearby
Severe 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.