Alert archive / Missouri / Severe Thunderstorm Watches in 2003
Severe Thunderstorm Watch 825
The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at Aug 1, 2003, 2:20 PM CDT for 17 counties in Kansas; 27 counties in Missouri; 5 counties in Oklahoma. It was in force for 6 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Aug 1, 2003, 2:20 PM CDT (19:20 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 1, 2003, 8:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 6 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
All 49 counties
Allen County, KS, Bourbon County, KS, Butler County, KS, Chautauqua County, KS, Cherokee County, KS, Cowley County, KS, Crawford County, KS, Elk County, KS, Greenwood County, KS, Harvey County, KS, Labette County, KS, Montgomery County, KS, Neosho County, KS, Sedgwick County, KS, Sumner County, KS, Wilson County, KS, Woodson County, KS, Barry County, MO, Barton County, MO, Camden County, MO, Cedar County, MO, Christian County, MO, Dade County, MO, Dallas County, MO, Douglas County, MO, Greene County, MO, Hickory County, MO, Howell County, MO, Jasper County, MO, Laclede County, MO, Lawrence County, MO, McDonald County, MO, Newton County, MO, Ozark County, MO, Phelps County, MO, Polk County, MO, Pulaski County, MO, St. Clair County, MO, Stone County, MO, Taney County, MO, Texas County, MO, Vernon County, MO, Webster County, MO, Wright County, MO, Craig County, OK, Kay County, OK, Nowata County, OK, Ottawa County, OK, Washington County, OK
The radar
The Tulsa radar (KINX), 158 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:21 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.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 1, 2:25 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | Phelps, Pulaski | 65 min |
| Aug 1, 3:34 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | Howell | 56 min |
| Aug 1, 3:38 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | Dade | 37 min |
| Aug 1, 4:05 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | Shannon, Texas | 55 min |
| Aug 1, 4:19 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | Polk | 56 min |
| Aug 1, 4:28 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Cowley | 62 min |
| Aug 1, 4:29 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | Greene, McDonald | 61 min |
| Aug 1, 4:44 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | Dallas | 61 min |
| Aug 1, 4:50 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | Barry | 70 min |
| Aug 1, 4:55 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | Webster | 65 min |
| Aug 1, 5:04 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | Howell | 56 min |
| Aug 1, 5:20 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | Ozark | 70 min |
| Aug 1, 5:53 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | Wright | 37 min |
| Aug 1, 5:54 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | Wright | 36 min |
| Aug 1, 5:55 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | Barry | 65 min |
| Aug 1, 6:00 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | SGF | Barry | 3 hr |
| Aug 1, 6:06 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | Christian | 54 min |
| Aug 1, 6:21 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | Pulaski | 54 min |
| Aug 1, 6:48 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | Phelps | 57 min |
| Aug 1, 7:11 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | Ozark | 64 min |
| Aug 1, 7:12 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | SGF | Ozark, Taney | 3 hr |
Discussions around it
SPC mesoscale discussions over the same counties from four hours before the watch to its end.
The nearest sounding before it
Springfield, MO (KSGF), launched 12:00Z, 7.3 hours before the alert went out and 140 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
- 186 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -244 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 2058 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 29 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 138 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 171 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 31, 7:12 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Bourbon, Cherokee, Crawford | 93 min |
| Jul 31, 7:32 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Barton, Butler, Cowley, Edwards, Ellis, Ellsworth and 22 more | 88 min |
| Jul 31, 7:55 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Cheyenne, Decatur, Graham, Norton, Rawlins, Sheridan and 2 more | 5 hr |
| Aug 1, 10:35 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Allen, Anderson, Bourbon, Butler, Chase, Chautauqua and 20 more | 2 hr |
| Aug 1, 6:08 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Allen, Bourbon, Butler, Chautauqua, Cherokee, Cowley and 8 more | 2 hr |
| Aug 1, 6:45 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Cheyenne, Logan, Sherman, Thomas, Wallace | 5 hr |
| Aug 1, 2:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Clark | 6 hr |
| Aug 1, 2:58 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Bollinger, Butler, Cape Girardeau, Carter, Crawford, Dunklin and 15 more | 2 hr |
| Aug 1, 3:20 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Bollinger, Butler, Cape Girardeau, Carter, Iron, Madison and 10 more | 6 hr |
| Aug 1, 5:37 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Adair, Cherokee, Creek, Delaware, Haskell, McIntosh and 8 more | 53 min |
| Aug 1, 5:40 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Adair, Cherokee, Creek, Delaware, McIntosh, Mayes and 8 more | 5 hr |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Watches in Missouri, 2003Severe Thunderstorm Watches in Kansas, 2003Severe Thunderstorm Watches in Oklahoma, 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.