Alert archive / Kansas / Severe Thunderstorm Watches in 2003
Severe Thunderstorm Watch 830
The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at Aug 2, 2003, 1:05 AM CDT for 4 states. It was in force for 6 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Aug 2, 2003, 1:05 AM CDT (06:05 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 2, 2003, 7:00 AM CDT
- In force
- 6 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
All 98 counties
Baxter County, AR, Benton County, AR, Boone County, AR, Carroll County, AR, Cleburne County, AR, Izard County, AR, Johnson County, AR, Madison County, AR, Marion County, AR, Newton County, AR, Searcy County, AR, Stone County, AR, Van Buren County, AR, Washington County, AR, Allen County, KS, Anderson County, KS, Barber County, KS, Bourbon County, KS, Butler County, KS, Chase County, KS, Chautauqua County, KS, Cherokee County, KS, Coffey County, KS, Cowley County, KS, Crawford County, KS, Elk County, KS, Ellsworth County, KS, Greenwood County, KS, Harper County, KS, Harvey County, KS, Kingman County, KS, Labette County, KS, Linn County, KS, Lyon County, KS, Marion County, KS, McPherson County, KS, Montgomery County, KS, Neosho County, KS, Pratt County, KS, Reno County, KS, Rice County, KS, Sedgwick County, KS, Stafford County, KS, Sumner County, KS, Wilson County, KS, Woodson County, KS, Barry County, MO, Barton County, MO, Bates 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, Adair County, OK, Alfalfa County, OK, Cherokee County, OK, Craig County, OK, Creek County, OK, Delaware County, OK, Garfield County, OK, Grant County, OK, Kay County, OK, Kingfisher County, OK, Logan County, OK, Major County, OK, Mayes County, OK, Noble County, OK, Nowata County, OK, Osage County, OK, Ottawa County, OK, Pawnee County, OK, Payne County, OK, Rogers County, OK, Tulsa County, OK, Wagoner County, OK, Washington County, OK, Woods County, OK
The radar
The Wichita radar (KICT), 128 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 06:07 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
33 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 2, 1:15 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Sumner | 60 min |
| Aug 2, 1:28 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Osage | 62 min |
| Aug 2, 1:34 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | Dallas | 71 min |
| Aug 2, 1:42 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | Hickory | 78 min |
| Aug 2, 1:49 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Kay | 41 min |
| Aug 2, 1:50 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Washington | 40 min |
| Aug 2, 1:56 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | SGF | Hickory | 6 hr |
| Aug 2, 2:05 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | OUN | Kay | 3 hr |
| Aug 2, 2:08 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | Polk | 82 min |
| Aug 2, 2:14 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Pawnee | 46 min |
| Aug 2, 2:20 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | Polk | 70 min |
| Aug 2, 2:23 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Sedgwick | 52 min |
| Aug 2, 2:23 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | SGF | Dallas, Laclede | 6 hr |
| Aug 2, 2:30 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | Greene | 75 min |
| Aug 2, 2:32 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | Laclede | 73 min |
| Aug 2, 2:43 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | Webster | 77 min |
| Aug 2, 2:49 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | Dade | 56 min |
| Aug 2, 3:05 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | Wright | 70 min |
| Aug 2, 3:08 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | Christian | 67 min |
| Aug 2, 3:18 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | Douglas | 72 min |
| Aug 2, 3:34 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | Texas | 56 min |
| Aug 2, 3:51 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | Howell, Ozark | 69 min |
| Aug 2, 3:53 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | Taney | 82 min |
| Aug 2, 4:09 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Baxter, Boone, Fulton, Izard, Marion | 76 min |
| Aug 2, 4:10 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | TSA | Tulsa | 4 hr |
| Aug 2, 4:25 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | SGF | St. Clair | 6 hr |
| Aug 2, 4:27 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | Barry | 63 min |
| Aug 2, 4:52 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Searcy, Stone | 58 min |
| Aug 2, 5:27 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Boone | 43 min |
| Aug 2, 5:28 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | SGF | Greene | 92 min |
| Aug 2, 5:57 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | SGF | Christian | 63 min |
| Aug 2, 6:24 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | LZK | Boone | 2 hr |
| Aug 2, 6:55 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | TSA | Wagoner | 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
Topeka, KS (KTOP), launched 00:00Z, 6.1 hours before the alert went out and 179 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
- 268 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -318 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1940 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 55 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -4 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 45 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- -0.6
SPC that day
Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 1, 8:53 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Benton, Boone, Carroll, Cleburne, Conway, Crawford and 13 more | 97 min |
| Aug 2, 3:26 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Baxter, Benton, Boone, Carroll, Cleburne, Crawford and 10 more | 64 min |
| Aug 2, 4:30 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Clay, Craighead, Crittenden, Cross, Greene, Independence and 14 more | 7 hr |
| Aug 2, 6:48 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Clay, Craighead, Crittenden, Cross, Greene, Independence and 14 more | 57 min |
| Aug 2, 12:22 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Ashley, Bradley, Chicot, Desha, Drew, Lincoln | 113 min |
| Aug 1, 10:07 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Decatur, Gove, Greeley, Hamilton, Logan, Rawlins and 6 more | 83 min |
| Aug 1, 11:54 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Allen, Anderson, Barber, Bourbon, Butler, Chautauqua and 19 more | 96 min |
| Aug 1, 7:20 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Bollinger, Butler, Cape Girardeau, Iron, Madison, Mississippi and 7 more | 85 min |
| Aug 2, 3:15 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Audrain, Boone, Callaway, Cole, Cooper, Henry and 8 more | 2 hr |
| Aug 2, 4:30 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Audrain, Boone, Callaway, Chariton, Cole, Cooper and 18 more | 6 hr |
| Aug 2, 5:07 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Cimarron | 83 min |
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.