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Severe Thunderstorm Watch 502

June 10, 200317 counties in Kansas; 13 counties in Missouri; Nemaha County, Richardson County, Nebraska

The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at Jun 10, 2003, 12:15 AM CDT for 17 counties in Kansas; 13 counties in Missouri; Nemaha County, Richardson County, Nebraska. It was in force for 5 hr.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued
Jun 10, 2003, 12:15 AM CDT (05:15 UTC)
Expired
Jun 10, 2003, 5:00 AM CDT
In force
5 hr
Issued by
the Storm Prediction Center
All 32 counties

Atchison County, KS, Brown County, KS, Dickinson County, KS, Doniphan County, KS, Douglas County, KS, Geary County, KS, Jackson County, KS, Jefferson County, KS, Leavenworth County, KS, Morris County, KS, Nemaha County, KS, Osage County, KS, Pottawatomie County, KS, Riley County, KS, Shawnee County, KS, Wabaunsee County, KS, Wyandotte County, KS, Andrew County, MO, Atchison County, MO, Buchanan County, MO, Clinton County, MO, Daviess County, MO, DeKalb County, MO, Gentry County, MO, Harrison County, MO, Holt County, MO, Mercer County, MO, Nodaway County, MO, Platte County, MO, Worth County, MO, Nemaha County, NE, Richardson County, NE

The radar

The Topeka radar (KTWX), 51 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 05:15 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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Warnings issued inside it

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 10, 1:00 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOAXNemaha, Richardson45 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

Topeka, KS (KTOP), launched 00:00Z, 5.3 hours before the alert went out and 45 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, Topeka, KS at 00:00Z on 2003-06-10Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 497 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, Topeka, KS at 00:00Z on 2003-06-10The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 52 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 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
497 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-240 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1810 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
39 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
52 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
140 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.3

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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, 9:20 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPCBarber, Barton, Clark, Comanche, Edwards, Ellis and 21 more5 hr
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, 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
Jun 9, 9:22 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCGentry, Harrison, Mercer, Nodaway, Putnam, Schuyler and 3 more53 min
Jun 10, 7:15 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPCBarry, Barton, Bates, Benton, Bollinger, Butler and 53 more6 hr
Jun 10, 10:24 AM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCBarry, Barton, Bates, Benton, Bollinger, Butler and 50 more2 hr
Jun 10, 3:40 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPCAudrain, Boone, Callaway, Cole, Crawford, Dent and 23 more5 hr
Jun 10, 5:07 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCCrawford, Jefferson, Perry, Sainte Genevieve, Saint Francois, Washington113 min
Jun 9, 7:23 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCAntelope, Boyd, Burt, Cedar, Cuming, Dakota and 7 more2 hr
Jun 9, 8:13 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCBoyd, Holt32 min
Jun 9, 8:52 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCAntelope, Cedar, Cuming, Dakota, Dixon, Knox and 3 more113 min
Jun 10, 1:06 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCBanner, Cheyenne, Kimball114 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.