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Severe Thunderstorm Watch 590

June 25, 20034 states

The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at Jun 25, 2003, 12:45 PM CDT for 4 states. It was in force for 5 hr.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued
Jun 25, 2003, 12:45 PM CDT (17:45 UTC)
Expired
Jun 25, 2003, 6:00 PM CDT
In force
5 hr
Issued by
the Storm Prediction Center
All 98 counties

Hancock County, IL, Allen County, KS, Anderson County, KS, Atchison County, KS, Bourbon County, KS, Brown County, KS, Butler County, KS, Chase County, KS, Chautauqua County, KS, Cherokee County, KS, Coffey County, KS, Cowley County, KS, Crawford County, KS, Doniphan County, KS, Douglas County, KS, Elk County, KS, Franklin County, KS, Greenwood County, KS, Jackson County, KS, Jefferson County, KS, Johnson County, KS, Labette County, KS, Leavenworth County, KS, Linn County, KS, Lyon County, KS, Marion County, KS, Miami County, KS, Montgomery County, KS, Morris County, KS, Nemaha County, KS, Neosho County, KS, Osage County, KS, Pottawatomie County, KS, Sedgwick County, KS, Shawnee County, KS, Sumner County, KS, Wabaunsee County, KS, Wilson County, KS, Woodson County, KS, Wyandotte County, KS, Adair County, MO, Andrew County, MO, Atchison County, MO, Barton County, MO, Bates County, MO, Benton County, MO, Boone County, MO, Buchanan County, MO, Caldwell County, MO, Carroll County, MO, Cass County, MO, Cedar County, MO, Chariton County, MO, Clark County, MO, Clay County, MO, Clinton County, MO, Cooper County, MO, Dade County, MO, Daviess County, MO, DeKalb County, MO, Gentry County, MO, Grundy County, MO, Harrison County, MO, Henry County, MO, Hickory County, MO, Holt County, MO, Howard County, MO, Jackson County, MO, Jasper County, MO, Johnson County, MO, Knox County, MO, Lafayette County, MO, Lawrence County, MO, Lewis County, MO, Linn County, MO, Livingston County, MO, Macon County, MO, Marion County, MO, Mercer County, MO, Moniteau County, MO, Monroe County, MO, Morgan County, MO, Nodaway County, MO, Pettis County, MO, Platte County, MO, Polk County, MO, Putnam County, MO, Randolph County, MO, Ray County, MO, Saline County, MO, Schuyler County, MO, Scotland County, MO, Shelby County, MO, St. Clair County, MO, Sullivan County, MO, Vernon County, MO, Worth County, MO, Richardson County, NE

The radar

The Pleasant Hill radar (KEAX), 95 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 17:47 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 25, 1:48 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEAXCass57 min
Jun 25, 2:13 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningICTButler, Sedgwick77 min
Jun 25, 2:14 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEAXClay, Jackson61 min
Jun 25, 2:20 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEAXNodaway40 min
Jun 25, 2:32 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEAXClinton28 min
Jun 25, 2:34 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEAXLafayette, Ray56 min
Jun 25, 2:37 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEAXGrundy38 min
Jun 25, 3:00 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEAXDaviess45 min
Jun 25, 3:05 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEAXMercer55 min
Jun 25, 3:21 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningICTButler, Sedgwick54 min
Jun 25, 3:48 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDVNClark42 min
Jun 25, 3:51 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningICTCowley, Sumner69 min
Jun 25, 4:02 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningEAXAndrew, Gentry, Nodaway6 hr
Jun 25, 4:25 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEAXAdair, Macon35 min
Jun 25, 4:35 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningICTElk70 min
Jun 25, 4:51 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningICTChautauqua, Cowley69 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, 5.8 hours before the alert went out and 70 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 12:00Z on 2003-06-25Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 2175 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 12:00Z on 2003-06-25The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 265 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
2175 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-30 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
803 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
24 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
265 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
368 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
10.0

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

SPC that day

Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 25, 11:50 AM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCBoone, Carroll, Henderson, Henry, Jo Daviess, Lee and 7 more115 min
Jun 25, 12:05 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPCCarroll, Henderson, Henry, Jo Daviess, Mercer, Ogle and 5 more6 hr
Jun 25, 2:43 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCAdams, Boone, Bureau, Carroll, Hancock, Henderson and 13 more2 hr
Jun 25, 4:52 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCAdams, Bond, Brown, Bureau, Calhoun, Cass and 70 more113 min
Jun 25, 5:15 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPCAdams, Boone, Brown, Bureau, Calhoun, Cass and 44 more5 hr
Jun 24, 8:51 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCDecatur, Graham, Logan, Norton, Rawlins, Sheridan and 3 more54 min
Jun 25, 10:36 AM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCAllen, Anderson, Atchison, Bourbon, Brown, Butler and 38 more114 min
Jun 25, 6:52 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCChautauqua, Cherokee, Labette, Montgomery83 min
Jun 24, 8:35 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCAdams, Antelope, Blaine, Boone, Boyd, Brown and 39 more5 hr
Jun 24, 10:27 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCAntelope, Boone, Boyd, Buffalo, Cedar, Custer and 25 more93 min
Jun 25, 12:37 AM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCBurt, Butler, Clay, Colfax, Cuming, Dodge and 7 more113 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Watches in Missouri, 2003Severe Thunderstorm Watches in Kansas, 2003Severe Thunderstorm Watches in Illinois, 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.