Alert archive / Kansas / Severe Thunderstorm Watches in 2003
Severe Thunderstorm Watch 581
The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at Jun 24, 2003, 3:55 PM CDT for 11 counties in Kansas; 9 counties in Nebraska. It was in force for 6 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 24, 2003, 3:55 PM CDT (20:55 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 24, 2003, 10:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 6 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
Counties Cheyenne County, KS, Decatur County, KS, Gove County, KS, Graham County, KS, Logan County, KS, Norton County, KS, Rawlins County, KS, Sheridan County, KS, Sherman County, KS, Thomas County, KS, Wallace County, KS, Chase County, NE, Dawson County, NE, Dundy County, NE, Frontier County, NE, Furnas County, NE, Gosper County, NE, Hayes County, NE, Hitchcock County, NE, Red Willow County, NE
The radar
The Goodland radar (KGLD), 83 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:59 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
13 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 24, 5:24 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Dundy | 66 min |
| Jun 24, 5:39 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Chase, Hayes | 66 min |
| Jun 24, 7:45 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Hitchcock | 60 min |
| Jun 24, 7:46 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Hayes | 44 min |
| Jun 24, 8:28 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Custer, Hayes, Lincoln | 62 min |
| Jun 24, 8:36 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Dawson | 69 min |
| Jun 24, 9:05 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LBF | Hayes | 25 min |
| Jun 24, 9:10 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Hitchcock | 65 min |
| Jun 24, 9:16 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Frontier | 59 min |
| Jun 24, 9:26 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | LBF | Hayes, Lincoln | 3 hr |
| Jun 24, 9:29 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Custer, Frontier, Hayes, Lincoln | 61 min |
| Jun 24, 9:48 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Dawson | 72 min |
| Jun 24, 9:57 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Red Willow | 63 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
N. Platte/Lee Bi, NE (KLBF), launched 12:00Z, 8.9 hours before the alert went out and 134 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
- 413 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -377 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1537 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 37 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 103 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 51 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
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</html>SPC that day
Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 23, 8:17 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Cloud, Jewell, Phillips, Republic, Smith | 58 min |
| Jun 23, 8:20 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Norton, Phillips, Smith | 3 hr |
| Jun 24, 11:43 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Brown, Doniphan | 2 hr |
| Jun 24, 3:47 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Cheyenne, Decatur, Rawlins, Sheridan, Sherman, Thomas | 88 min |
| Jun 24, 3:56 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Brown, Doniphan | 64 min |
| Jun 24, 5:48 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Finney, Grant, Gray, Hamilton, Haskell, Kearny and 8 more | 117 min |
| Jun 24, 6:30 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Cheyenne, Decatur, Gove, Graham, Logan, Norton and 6 more | 2 hr |
| Jun 23, 8:34 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Cheyenne, Deuel, Kimball | 86 min |
| Jun 23, 8:55 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Burt, Cass, Douglas, Gage, Jefferson, Johnson and 11 more | 4 hr |
| Jun 23, 9:10 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Boyd | 65 min |
| Jun 23, 9:10 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Banner, Box Butte, Cheyenne, Deuel, Garden, Kimball and 3 more | 4 hr |
| Jun 23, 10:38 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Cedar, Dakota, Dixon, Pierce, Wayne | 67 min |
| Jun 23, 10:50 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Adams, Antelope, Boone, Buffalo, Butler, Cedar and 26 more | 5 hr |
| Jun 23, 10:50 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Arthur, Blaine, Chase, Custer, Dawson, Frontier and 10 more | 5 hr |
| Jun 23, 11:08 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Banner, Box Butte, Cheyenne, Garden, Grant, Kimball and 3 more | 67 min |
| Jun 23, 11:45 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Boyd, Brown, Cherry, Grant, Holt, Hooker and 3 more | 6 hr |
| Jun 24, 12:50 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Banner, Cheyenne, Deuel, Garden, Kimball, Morrill and 1 more | 3 hr |
| Jun 24, 1:52 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Antelope, Blaine, Cedar, Dakota, Dixon, Garfield and 9 more | 53 min |
| Jun 24, 2:44 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Boyd, Brown, Cherry, Grant, Holt, Hooker and 3 more | 2 hr |
| Jun 24, 1:29 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Antelope, Blaine, Boone, Boyd, Brown, Buffalo and 22 more | 3 hr |
| Jun 24, 2:15 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Antelope, Blaine, Boyd, Brown, Cedar, Cherry and 18 more | 8 hr |
| Jun 24, 5:59 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Antelope, Blaine, Boyd, Brown, Cedar, Dixon and 11 more | 61 min |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Watches in Kansas, 2003Severe Thunderstorm Watches in Nebraska, 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.