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Severe Thunderstorm Watch 499

June 9, 200327 counties in Kansas

The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at Jun 9, 2003, 9:20 PM CDT for 27 counties in Kansas. It was in force for 5 hr.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued
Jun 9, 2003, 9:20 PM CDT (02:20 UTC)
Expired
Jun 10, 2003, 2:00 AM CDT
In force
5 hr
Issued by
the Storm Prediction Center
All 27 counties

Barber County, KS, Barton County, KS, Clark County, KS, Comanche County, KS, Edwards County, KS, Ellis County, KS, Ellsworth County, KS, Finney County, KS, Ford County, KS, Gove County, KS, Gray County, KS, Hodgeman County, KS, Kingman County, KS, Kiowa County, KS, Lane County, KS, Lincoln County, KS, Meade County, KS, Ness County, KS, Pawnee County, KS, Pratt County, KS, Reno County, KS, Rice County, KS, Rush County, KS, Russell County, KS, Seward County, KS, Stafford County, KS, Trego County, KS

The radar

The Dodge City radar (KDDC), 27 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 02:21 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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Warnings issued inside it

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 9, 9:40 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCComanche, Kiowa50 min
Jun 9, 9:56 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCLane, Scott49 min
Jun 9, 10:18 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGLDGove57 min
Jun 9, 10:33 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCTrego42 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, 2.3 hours before the alert went out and 21 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, Dodge City, at 00:00Z on 2003-06-10Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 2435 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Dodge City, at 00:00Z on 2003-06-10The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 44 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 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
2435 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-115 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1689 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
32 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
44 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
86 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.1
Supercell composite
3.4

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SPC that day

Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 9, 9:00 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCBarber, Barton, Clark, Cloud, Comanche, Edwards and 28 more60 min
Jun 9, 10:10 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPCClay, Cloud, Graham, Jewell, Marshall, Mitchell and 7 more6 hr
Jun 9, 11:32 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCBarber, Barton, Clark, Comanche, Edwards, Ellis and 17 more118 min
Jun 9, 11:46 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCAtchison, Brown, Clay, Cloud, Doniphan, Jackson and 10 more119 min
Jun 10, 12:15 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPCAtchison, Brown, Dickinson, Doniphan, Douglas, Geary and 11 more5 hr
Jun 10, 1:20 AM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCBarber, Barton, Ellis, Ellsworth, Kingman, Lincoln and 8 more55 min
Jun 10, 2:44 AM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCAtchison, Brown, Doniphan, Douglas, Jackson, Jefferson and 8 more2 hr
Jun 10, 7:07 AM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCAllen, Bourbon, Cherokee, Crawford, Labette, Linn and 1 more113 min
Jun 10, 12:18 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCAllen, Anderson, Bourbon, Butler, Chase, Chautauqua and 21 more117 min
Jun 10, 12:50 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPCAllen, Anderson, Bourbon, Butler, Chase, Chautauqua and 29 more6 hr
Jun 10, 1:56 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCChautauqua, Labette, Montgomery2 hr
Jun 10, 5:55 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCAnderson, Barber, Butler, Chase, Coffey, Franklin and 11 more95 min
Jun 10, 6:20 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCCheyenne, Rawlins, Sherman, Thomas2 hr

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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.