Alert archive / Kansas / Severe Thunderstorm Watches in 2003
Severe Thunderstorm Watch 504
The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at Jun 10, 2003, 12:50 PM CDT for 35 counties in Kansas; 23 counties in Missouri; Alfalfa County, Oklahoma. It was in force for 6 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 10, 2003, 12:50 PM CDT (17:50 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 10, 2003, 7:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 6 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
All 59 counties
Allen County, KS, Anderson County, KS, Bourbon County, KS, Butler County, KS, Chase County, KS, Chautauqua County, KS, Coffey County, KS, Cowley County, KS, Crawford County, KS, Douglas County, KS, Elk County, KS, Franklin County, KS, Greenwood County, KS, Harper County, KS, Harvey County, KS, Johnson County, KS, Kingman County, KS, Leavenworth County, KS, Linn County, KS, Lyon County, KS, Marion County, KS, McPherson County, KS, Miami County, KS, Morris County, KS, Neosho County, KS, Osage County, KS, Reno County, KS, Rice County, KS, Sedgwick County, KS, Shawnee County, KS, Sumner County, KS, Wabaunsee County, KS, Wilson County, KS, Woodson County, KS, Wyandotte County, KS, Bates County, MO, Benton County, MO, Camden County, MO, Carroll County, MO, Cass County, MO, Cedar County, MO, Chariton County, MO, Clay County, MO, Cooper County, MO, Henry County, MO, Hickory County, MO, Howard County, MO, Jackson County, MO, Johnson County, MO, Lafayette County, MO, Moniteau County, MO, Morgan County, MO, Pettis County, MO, Randolph County, MO, Ray County, MO, Saline County, MO, St. Clair County, MO, Vernon County, MO, Alfalfa County, OK
The radar
The Topeka radar (KTWX), 77 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 17:50 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
22 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 10, 2:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Johnson | 45 min |
| Jun 10, 2:06 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | Benton | 54 min |
| Jun 10, 2:13 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Henry | 47 min |
| Jun 10, 2:14 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | St. Clair | 61 min |
| Jun 10, 2:45 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | Camden | 45 min |
| Jun 10, 3:09 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | Morgan | 66 min |
| Jun 10, 3:25 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | Camden | 50 min |
| Jun 10, 3:36 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | SGF | Morgan | 4 hr |
| Jun 10, 3:41 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Neosho | 64 min |
| Jun 10, 3:43 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Woodson | 62 min |
| Jun 10, 4:06 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Allen | 39 min |
| Jun 10, 4:08 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ICT | Butler | 52 min |
| Jun 10, 4:10 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | Camden | 65 min |
| Jun 10, 4:14 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Lyon | 46 min |
| Jun 10, 4:18 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Chase | 57 min |
| Jun 10, 4:48 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Osage | 42 min |
| Jun 10, 5:18 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Johnson | 57 min |
| Jun 10, 5:24 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ICT | Butler | 51 min |
| Jun 10, 5:46 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Jackson | 59 min |
| Jun 10, 6:20 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Reno | 55 min |
| Jun 10, 6:23 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | Camden | 52 min |
| Jun 10, 6:28 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | SGF | Camden | 6 hr |
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 12:00Z, 5.8 hours before the alert went out and 85 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
- 1376 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -126 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 898 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 31 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 193 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 162 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.5
- Supercell composite
- 3.6
SPC that day
Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 9, 9:00 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Barber, Barton, Clark, Cloud, Comanche, Edwards and 28 more | 60 min |
| Jun 9, 9:20 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Barber, Barton, Clark, Comanche, Edwards, Ellis and 21 more | 5 hr |
| Jun 9, 10:10 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Clay, Cloud, Graham, Jewell, Marshall, Mitchell and 7 more | 6 hr |
| Jun 9, 11:32 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Barber, Barton, Clark, Comanche, Edwards, Ellis and 17 more | 118 min |
| Jun 9, 11:46 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Atchison, Brown, Clay, Cloud, Doniphan, Jackson and 10 more | 119 min |
| Jun 10, 12:15 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Atchison, Brown, Dickinson, Doniphan, Douglas, Geary and 11 more | 5 hr |
| Jun 10, 1:20 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Barber, Barton, Ellis, Ellsworth, Kingman, Lincoln and 8 more | 55 min |
| Jun 10, 2:44 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Atchison, Brown, Doniphan, Douglas, Jackson, Jefferson and 8 more | 2 hr |
| Jun 10, 7:07 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Allen, Bourbon, Cherokee, Crawford, Labette, Linn and 1 more | 113 min |
| Jun 10, 12:18 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Allen, Anderson, Bourbon, Butler, Chase, Chautauqua and 21 more | 117 min |
| Jun 10, 1:56 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Chautauqua, Labette, Montgomery | 2 hr |
| Jun 10, 5:55 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Anderson, Barber, Butler, Chase, Coffey, Franklin and 11 more | 95 min |
| Jun 10, 6:20 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Cheyenne, Rawlins, Sherman, Thomas | 2 hr |
| Jun 9, 9:22 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Gentry, Harrison, Mercer, Nodaway, Putnam, Schuyler and 3 more | 53 min |
| Jun 10, 7:15 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Barry, Barton, Bates, Benton, Bollinger, Butler and 53 more | 6 hr |
| Jun 10, 10:24 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Barry, Barton, Bates, Benton, Bollinger, Butler and 50 more | 2 hr |
| Jun 10, 3:40 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Audrain, Boone, Callaway, Cole, Crawford, Dent and 23 more | 5 hr |
| Jun 10, 5:07 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Crawford, Jefferson, Perry, Sainte Genevieve, Saint Francois, Washington | 113 min |
| Jun 10, 5:42 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Caddo, Canadian, Carter, Cherokee, Cleveland, Coal and 29 more | 2 hr |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Watches in Kansas, 2003Severe Thunderstorm Watches in Missouri, 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.