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Severe Thunderstorm Watch 829

August 1, 20037 counties in Colorado; 5 counties in Kansas; 10 counties in Nebraska

The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at Aug 1, 2003, 5:45 PM MDT for 7 counties in Colorado; 5 counties in Kansas; 10 counties in Nebraska. It was in force for 5 hr.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued
Aug 1, 2003, 5:45 PM MDT (23:45 UTC)
Expired
Aug 1, 2003, 11:00 PM MDT
In force
5 hr
Issued by
the Storm Prediction Center
All 22 counties

Cheyenne County, CO, Kit Carson County, CO, Logan County, CO, Phillips County, CO, Sedgwick County, CO, Washington County, CO, Yuma County, CO, Cheyenne County, KS, Logan County, KS, Sherman County, KS, Thomas County, KS, Wallace County, KS, Arthur County, NE, Banner County, NE, Chase County, NE, Cheyenne County, NE, Deuel County, NE, Dundy County, NE, Garden County, NE, Keith County, NE, Kimball County, NE, Perkins County, NE

The radar

The Goodland radar (KGLD), 129 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:47 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

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Aug 1, 5:53 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCYSCheyenne22 min
Aug 1, 6:15 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCYSCheyenne45 min
Aug 1, 6:23 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBOUSedgwick52 min
Aug 1, 6:42 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGLDCheyenne, Kit Carson48 min
Aug 1, 7:02 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCYSCheyenne28 min
Aug 1, 7:09 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLBFGarden66 min
Aug 1, 7:49 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLBFDeuel41 min
Aug 1, 8:04 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLBFKeith56 min
Aug 1, 8:06 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLBFKeith54 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.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Aug 1, 3:30 PM MDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCAdams, Arapahoe, Boulder, Broomfield, Denver, Douglas and 8 more2 hr
Jul 31, 6:12 PM MDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCBourbon, Cherokee, Crawford93 min
Jul 31, 6:32 PM MDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCBarton, Butler, Cowley, Edwards, Ellis, Ellsworth and 22 more88 min
Jul 31, 6:55 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPCCheyenne, Decatur, Graham, Norton, Rawlins, Sheridan and 2 more5 hr
Aug 1, 9:35 AM MDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCAllen, Anderson, Bourbon, Butler, Chase, Chautauqua and 20 more2 hr
Aug 1, 1:20 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPCAllen, Bourbon, Butler, Chautauqua, Cherokee, Cowley and 11 more6 hr
Aug 1, 5:08 PM MDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCAllen, Bourbon, Butler, Chautauqua, Cherokee, Cowley and 8 more2 hr

Nearby

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