Alert archive / Nebraska / Severe Thunderstorm Watches in 2003
Severe Thunderstorm Watch 659
The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at Jul 6, 2003, 5:40 PM MDT for 5 counties in Colorado; 14 counties in Kansas; 25 counties in Nebraska. It was in force for 5 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 6, 2003, 5:40 PM MDT (23:40 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 6, 2003, 11:00 PM MDT
- In force
- 5 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
All 44 counties
Cheyenne County, CO, Kit Carson County, CO, Phillips County, CO, Sedgwick County, CO, Yuma County, CO, Cheyenne County, KS, Decatur County, KS, Graham County, KS, Logan County, KS, Norton County, KS, Osborne County, KS, Phillips County, KS, Rawlins County, KS, Rooks County, KS, Sheridan County, KS, Sherman County, KS, Smith County, KS, Thomas County, KS, Wallace County, KS, Adams County, NE, Buffalo County, NE, Chase County, NE, Custer County, NE, Dawson County, NE, Dundy County, NE, Franklin County, NE, Frontier County, NE, Furnas County, NE, Gosper County, NE, Greeley County, NE, Hall County, NE, Harlan County, NE, Hayes County, NE, Hitchcock County, NE, Howard County, NE, Kearney County, NE, Keith County, NE, Lincoln County, NE, Perkins County, NE, Phelps County, NE, Red Willow County, NE, Sherman County, NE, Valley County, NE, Webster County, NE
The radar
The Goodland radar (KGLD), 124 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:41 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
17 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 6, 5:48 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | GLD | Cheyenne | 42 min |
| Jul 6, 6:03 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Rawlins | 57 min |
| Jul 6, 6:13 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Dundy | 62 min |
| Jul 6, 6:25 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Cheyenne | 65 min |
| Jul 6, 6:36 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Red Willow | 54 min |
| Jul 6, 7:13 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Harlan | 62 min |
| Jul 6, 7:13 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Hitchcock | 47 min |
| Jul 6, 8:04 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Phelps | 41 min |
| Jul 6, 8:06 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Gosper | 39 min |
| Jul 6, 8:22 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Buffalo | 38 min |
| Jul 6, 8:57 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Kearney | 48 min |
| Jul 6, 9:00 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Buffalo | 45 min |
| Jul 6, 9:19 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Howard | 56 min |
| Jul 6, 9:33 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Franklin | 42 min |
| Jul 6, 9:35 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Adams | 55 min |
| Jul 6, 9:41 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Webster | 64 min |
| Jul 6, 9:44 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Kearney | 61 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
Denver, CO (KDNR), launched 12:00Z, 11.7 hours before the alert went out and 198 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
- 15 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -544 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 3624 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 10 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -6 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 69 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
SPC that day
Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 5, 6:38 PM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Baca, Bent, Cheyenne, Kiowa, Prowers | 67 min |
| Jul 6, 1:47 PM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Baca, Bent, Cheyenne, Crowley, Kiowa, Kit Carson and 3 more | 118 min |
| Jul 6, 5:24 PM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Cheyenne, Kiowa, Kit Carson, Phillips, Yuma | 2 hr |
| Jul 5, 6:20 PM MDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Antelope, Blaine, Boone, Boyd, Brown, Buffalo and 44 more | 6 hr |
| Jul 5, 9:57 PM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Boone, Burt, Butler, Cass, Colfax, Cuming and 16 more | 63 min |
| Jul 5, 10:50 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Burt, Butler, Cass, Cedar, Colfax, Cuming and 21 more | 5 hr |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Watches in Nebraska, 2003Severe Thunderstorm Watches in Kansas, 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.