Alert archive / Kansas / Severe Thunderstorm Watches in 2003

Severe Thunderstorm Watch 650

July 5, 20034 counties in Colorado; 19 counties in Kansas

The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at Jul 5, 2003, 4:30 PM MDT for 4 counties in Colorado; 19 counties in Kansas. It was in force for 5 hr.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued: Jul 5, 2003, 4:30 PM MDT (22:30 UTC)
Expired: Jul 5, 2003, 9:00 PM MDT
In force: 5 hr
Issued by: the Storm Prediction Center

All 23 counties

Baca County, CO, Bent County, CO, Kiowa County, CO, Prowers County, CO, Clark County, KS, Finney County, KS, Ford County, KS, Grant County, KS, Gray County, KS, Greeley County, KS, Hamilton County, KS, Haskell County, KS, Hodgeman County, KS, Kearny County, KS, Lane County, KS, Meade County, KS, Morton County, KS, Ness County, KS, Scott County, KS, Seward County, KS, Stanton County, KS, Stevens County, KS, Wichita County, KS

The radar

The Dodge City radar (KDDC), 100 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:33 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

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jul 5, 4:34 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Greeley	56 min
Jul 5, 4:41 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Hamilton	64 min
Jul 5, 5:44 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Hamilton	61 min
Jul 5, 6:45 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Kearny	45 min
Jul 5, 8:06 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Hamilton, Stanton	39 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, 10.5 hours before the alert went out and 106 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 724 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -399 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1612 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 24 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 27 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 62 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

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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, 2:45 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	Cheyenne, Kit Carson	6 hr
Jul 5, 4:06 PM MDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Cheyenne, Kiowa, Prowers	84 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Watches in Kansas, 2003 Severe Thunderstorm Watches in Colorado, 2003 Every 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.