Alert archive / Kansas / Severe Thunderstorm Watches in 2003
Severe Thunderstorm Watch 819
The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at Jul 31, 2003, 4:45 PM CDT for 51 counties in Kansas; Craig County, Nowata County, Oklahoma. It was in force for 5 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 31, 2003, 4:45 PM CDT (21:45 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 31, 2003, 10:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 5 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
All 53 counties
Allen County, KS, Anderson County, KS, Barton County, KS, Butler County, KS, Chase County, KS, Chautauqua County, KS, Coffey County, KS, Cowley County, KS, Edwards County, KS, Elk County, KS, Ellis County, KS, Ellsworth County, KS, Finney County, KS, Ford County, KS, Gove County, KS, Gray County, KS, Greeley County, KS, Greenwood County, KS, Hamilton County, KS, Harper County, KS, Harvey County, KS, Hodgeman County, KS, Kearny County, KS, Kingman County, KS, Kiowa County, KS, Labette County, KS, Lane County, KS, Logan County, KS, Lyon County, KS, Marion County, KS, McPherson County, KS, Montgomery County, KS, Neosho County, KS, Ness County, KS, Pawnee County, KS, Pratt County, KS, Reno County, KS, Rice County, KS, Rush County, KS, Russell County, KS, Saline County, KS, Scott County, KS, Sedgwick County, KS, Sherman County, KS, Stafford County, KS, Sumner County, KS, Trego County, KS, Wallace County, KS, Wichita County, KS, Wilson County, KS, Woodson County, KS, Craig County, OK, Nowata County, OK
The radar
The Dodge City radar (KDDC), 90 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:47 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
13 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 31, 4:59 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Rice | 61 min |
| Jul 31, 5:01 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Trego | 44 min |
| Jul 31, 5:25 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Barton | 35 min |
| Jul 31, 5:37 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Ness | 53 min |
| Jul 31, 5:53 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Stafford | 67 min |
| Jul 31, 6:01 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Harvey, Reno | 44 min |
| Jul 31, 6:04 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Rush | 26 min |
| Jul 31, 6:26 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Rush | 34 min |
| Jul 31, 7:04 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Pratt, Stafford | 56 min |
| Jul 31, 7:24 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Pawnee | 51 min |
| Jul 31, 7:51 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Edwards | 24 min |
| Jul 31, 8:07 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Sherman, Thomas | 53 min |
| Jul 31, 8:28 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Kiowa | 47 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, 9.8 hours before the alert went out and 86 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
- 485 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -170 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1867 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 35 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -4 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 100 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- -0.2
SPC that day
Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 31, 2:04 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Allen, Anderson, Bourbon, Coffey, Crawford, Franklin and 6 more | 2 hr |
| Jul 31, 2:16 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Clay, Cloud, Decatur, Ellis, Ellsworth, Graham and 12 more | 89 min |
| Jul 31, 2:35 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Cheyenne, Cloud, Decatur, Graham, Jewell, Lincoln and 13 more | 5 hr |
| Jul 31, 4:36 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Barton, Edwards, Ellis, Ellsworth, Finney, Gove and 16 more | 114 min |
| Jul 31, 4:45 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Bourbon, Cherokee, Crawford, Linn | 5 hr |
Nearby
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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.