Alert archive / Kansas / Severe Thunderstorm Watches in 2003
Severe Thunderstorm Watch 559
The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at Jun 22, 2003, 1:00 PM CDT for 16 counties in Kansas; Platte County, Missouri. It was in force for 5 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 22, 2003, 1:00 PM CDT (18:00 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 22, 2003, 6:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 5 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
Counties Anderson County, KS, Atchison County, KS, Coffey County, KS, Douglas County, KS, Franklin County, KS, Jackson County, KS, Jefferson County, KS, Johnson County, KS, Leavenworth County, KS, Linn County, KS, Lyon County, KS, Miami County, KS, Osage County, KS, Shawnee County, KS, Wabaunsee County, KS, Wyandotte County, KS, Platte County, MO
The radar
The Topeka radar (KTWX), 84 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 17:59 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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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 22, 1:16 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Jefferson | 44 min |
| Jun 22, 1:25 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Leavenworth | 65 min |
| Jun 22, 1:26 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Douglas | 49 min |
| Jun 22, 2:08 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Wyandotte | 67 min |
| Jun 22, 2:38 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Johnson | 82 min |
| Jun 22, 3:55 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EAX | Johnson | 3 hr |
| Jun 22, 4:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Johnson | 45 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 12:00Z, 6.0 hours before the alert went out and 33 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
- 1217 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -135 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 708 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 29 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 254 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 250 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 3.0
SPC that day
Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 22, 4:38 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Clay, Marshall, Nemaha, Republic, Washington | 97 min |
| Jun 22, 9:30 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Atchison, Brown, Coffey, Doniphan, Douglas, Franklin and 13 more | 3 hr |
| Jun 22, 12:35 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Atchison, Doniphan, Jackson, Jefferson, Leavenworth | 115 min |
| Jun 22, 1:51 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Anderson, Coffey, Douglas, Franklin, Jackson, Jefferson and 9 more | 114 min |
| Jun 22, 5:29 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Clay, Cloud, Jewell, Mitchell, Osborne, Republic and 1 more | 61 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.