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Severe Thunderstorm Watch 569

June 23, 20034 states

The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at Jun 23, 2003, 5:00 PM MDT for 4 states. It was in force for 6 hr.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued
Jun 23, 2003, 5:00 PM MDT (23:00 UTC)
Expired
Jun 23, 2003, 11:00 PM MDT
In force
6 hr
Issued by
the Storm Prediction Center
All 33 counties

Cheyenne County, CO, Kit Carson County, CO, Prowers County, CO, Yuma County, CO, Cheyenne County, KS, Decatur County, KS, Finney County, KS, Gove County, KS, Grant County, KS, Gray County, KS, Greeley County, KS, Hamilton County, KS, Haskell County, KS, Kearny County, KS, Lane County, KS, Logan County, KS, Meade County, KS, Morton County, KS, Rawlins County, KS, Scott County, KS, Seward County, KS, Sheridan County, KS, Sherman County, KS, Stanton County, KS, Stevens County, KS, Thomas County, KS, Wallace County, KS, Wichita County, KS, Dundy County, NE, Hitchcock County, NE, Red Willow County, NE, Beaver County, OK, Texas County, OK

The radar

The Goodland radar (KGLD), 82 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:02 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.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 23, 5:25 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCStanton50 min
Jun 23, 5:44 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCGrant, Kearny46 min
Jun 23, 6:18 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningAMATexas57 min
Jun 23, 6:19 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGLDWichita56 min
Jun 23, 6:37 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCScott38 min
Jun 23, 7:02 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGLDGove, Logan58 min
Jun 23, 7:06 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGLDHitchcock39 min
Jun 23, 7:09 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGLDDecatur66 min
Jun 23, 7:21 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCSeward39 min
Jun 23, 7:23 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGLDSheridan, Thomas67 min
Jun 23, 7:35 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCMeade55 min
Jun 23, 7:37 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGLDRed Willow53 min
Jun 23, 7:56 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGLDRawlins64 min
Jun 23, 8:12 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGLDDecatur63 min
Jun 23, 8:28 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGLDRed Willow62 min
Jun 23, 8:33 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCMeade57 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, 11.0 hours before the alert went out and 156 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 12:00Z on 2003-06-23Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1681 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 12:00Z on 2003-06-23The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 380 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
1681 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-356 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1275 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
25 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
380 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
461 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.3

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

SPC that day

Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 23, 4:51 PM MDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCBaca, Bent, Cheyenne, Kiowa, Kit Carson, Prowers114 min
Jun 22, 7:30 PM MDTTornado WatchSPCClay, Cloud, Jewell, Mitchell, Osborne, Republic and 3 more5 hr
Jun 22, 9:32 PM MDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCJewell, Phillips, Republic, Smith, Washington88 min
Jun 22, 10:20 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPCAtchison, Brown, Clay, Cloud, Doniphan, Jewell and 10 more6 hr
Jun 23, 12:49 AM MDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCBrown, Clay, Cloud, Doniphan, Jewell, Marshall and 8 more116 min
Jun 23, 12:04 AM MDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCBlaine, Boyd, Brown, Cedar, Cherry, Holt and 5 more116 min
Jun 23, 2:13 AM MDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCAntelope, Boone, Burt, Cedar, Colfax, Cuming and 17 more2 hr
Jun 23, 12:42 PM MDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCAntelope, Arthur, Blaine, Boone, Brown, Custer and 18 more3 hr
Jun 23, 4:35 PM MDTTornado WatchSPCAntelope, Arthur, Blaine, Boone, Boyd, Brown and 37 more5 hr
Jun 23, 5:45 PM MDTTornado WatchSPCBoyd4 hr

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.