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Severe Thunderstorm Watch 603

June 28, 200318 counties in Kansas; 8 counties in Oklahoma; Lipscomb County, Texas

The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at Jun 28, 2003, 4:15 PM CDT for 18 counties in Kansas; 8 counties in Oklahoma; Lipscomb County, Texas. It was in force for 6 hr.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued
Jun 28, 2003, 4:15 PM CDT (21:15 UTC)
Expired
Jun 28, 2003, 10:00 PM CDT
In force
6 hr
Issued by
the Storm Prediction Center
All 27 counties

Barber County, KS, Clark County, KS, Comanche County, KS, Finney County, KS, Ford County, KS, Grant County, KS, Gray County, KS, Greeley County, KS, Hamilton County, KS, Haskell County, KS, Kearny County, KS, Kiowa County, KS, Meade County, KS, Morton County, KS, Seward County, KS, Stanton County, KS, Stevens County, KS, Wichita County, KS, Beaver County, OK, Custer County, OK, Dewey County, OK, Ellis County, OK, Harper County, OK, Texas County, OK, Woods County, OK, Woodward County, OK, Lipscomb County, TX

The radar

The Dodge City radar (KDDC), 67 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:17 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

21 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 28, 4:34 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCClark41 min
Jun 28, 5:04 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCFord41 min
Jun 28, 5:11 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCClark49 min
Jun 28, 5:33 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCMeade42 min
Jun 28, 5:46 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCFord44 min
Jun 28, 5:59 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCClark46 min
Jun 28, 6:16 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCMeade59 min
Jun 28, 6:24 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningAMABeaver66 min
Jun 28, 6:28 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCFord62 min
Jun 28, 6:32 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCGray58 min
Jun 28, 7:14 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCMeade46 min
Jun 28, 7:29 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCSeward61 min
Jun 28, 8:29 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCSeward61 min
Jun 28, 8:42 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningAMABeaver, Texas63 min
Jun 28, 8:48 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCStevens57 min
Jun 28, 8:54 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGLDGreeley66 min
Jun 28, 9:06 PM CDTTornado WarningGLDGreeley39 min
Jun 28, 9:47 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningAMATexas58 min
Jun 28, 9:55 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningAMATexas3 hr
Jun 28, 9:56 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningDDCSeward4 hr
Jun 28, 9:58 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOUNHarper47 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, 9.3 hours before the alert went out and 73 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 2003-06-28Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 714 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 2003-06-28The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 363 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
714 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-280 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1282 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
31 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
363 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
423 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
2.5

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SPC that day

Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 27, 10:06 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCAtchison, Brown, Clay, Cloud, Doniphan, Douglas and 17 more84 min
Jun 28, 6:05 AM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCAllen, Anderson, Bourbon, Butler, Chase, Chautauqua and 35 more85 min
Jun 28, 3:39 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCBarber, Clark, Comanche, Edwards, Finney, Ford and 17 more96 min
Jun 28, 4:45 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPCCimarron5 hr

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Watches in Kansas, 2003Severe Thunderstorm Watches in Oklahoma, 2003Severe Thunderstorm Watches in Texas, 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.