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Severe Thunderstorm Watch 646
The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at Jul 5, 2003, 2:45 PM MDT for Cheyenne County, Kit Carson County, Colorado; 10 counties in Kansas; 9 counties in Nebraska. It was in force for 6 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 5, 2003, 2:45 PM MDT (20:45 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 5, 2003, 9:00 PM MDT
- In force
- 6 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
All 21 counties
Cheyenne County, CO, Kit Carson County, CO, Cheyenne County, KS, Decatur County, KS, Gove 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, Dundy County, NE, Frontier County, NE, Furnas County, NE, Gosper County, NE, Hayes County, NE, Hitchcock County, NE, Phelps County, NE, Red Willow County, NE
The radar
The Goodland radar (KGLD), 17 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:46 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
4 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 5, 2:46 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Cheyenne | 44 min |
| Jul 5, 3:41 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Wallace | 64 min |
| Jul 5, 6:09 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Gosper, Harlan, Phelps | 51 min |
| Jul 5, 7:34 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Cheyenne, Kit Carson | 41 min |
Discussions around it
SPC mesoscale discussions over the same counties from four hours before the watch to its end.
SPC that day
Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 5, 2:23 PM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Bent, Cheyenne, Crowley, Kiowa, Kit Carson, Lincoln and 4 more | 2 hr |
| Jul 5, 4:06 PM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Cheyenne, Kiowa, Prowers | 84 min |
| Jul 5, 4:30 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Baca, Bent, Kiowa, Prowers | 5 hr |
| Jul 4, 6:20 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Antelope, Blaine, Boyd, Brown, Cherry, Garfield and 9 more | 5 hr |
| Jul 4, 7:43 PM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Burt, Butler, Cass, Colfax, Cuming, Dakota and 19 more | 62 min |
| Jul 4, 8:05 PM MDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Adams, Boone, Burt, Butler, Cass, Cedar and 39 more | 6 hr |
| Jul 4, 8:52 PM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Antelope, Blaine, Boyd, Brown, Cherry, Garfield and 9 more | 83 min |
| Jul 4, 9:45 PM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Adams, Boone, Burt, Butler, Cass, Cedar and 28 more | 90 min |
| Jul 4, 10:21 PM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Antelope, Blaine, Boyd, Brown, Garfield, Holt and 6 more | 24 min |
| Jul 5, 5:44 AM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Antelope, Blaine, Boone, Brown, Cherry, Garfield and 12 more | 2 hr |
| Jul 5, 11:19 AM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Antelope, Boone, Buffalo, Burt, Butler, Cass and 30 more | 2 hr |
| Jul 5, 2:10 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Antelope, Blaine, Boone, Boyd, Brown, Buffalo and 47 more | 7 hr |
| Jul 5, 5:42 PM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Antelope, Blaine, Boone, Boyd, Brown, Buffalo and 47 more | 93 min |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Watches in Kansas, 2003Severe Thunderstorm Watches in Nebraska, 2003Severe Thunderstorm Watches in Colorado, 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.