Alert archive / Missouri / Severe Thunderstorm Watches in 2003
Severe Thunderstorm Watch 842
The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at Aug 5, 2003, 3:55 PM CDT for 23 counties in Kansas; 26 counties in Missouri. It was in force for 5 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Aug 5, 2003, 3:55 PM CDT (20:55 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 5, 2003, 9:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 5 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
All 49 counties
Allen County, KS, Anderson County, KS, Atchison County, KS, Bourbon County, KS, Cherokee County, KS, Coffey County, KS, Crawford County, KS, Douglas County, KS, Franklin County, KS, Jackson County, KS, Jefferson County, KS, Johnson County, KS, Leavenworth County, KS, Linn County, KS, Lyon County, KS, Miami County, KS, Neosho County, KS, Osage County, KS, Pottawatomie County, KS, Riley County, KS, Shawnee County, KS, Wabaunsee County, KS, Wyandotte County, KS, Barton County, MO, Bates County, MO, Benton County, MO, Camden County, MO, Cass County, MO, Cedar County, MO, Clay County, MO, Dade County, MO, Dallas County, MO, Greene County, MO, Henry County, MO, Hickory County, MO, Jackson County, MO, Jasper County, MO, Johnson County, MO, Laclede County, MO, Lafayette County, MO, Lawrence County, MO, Pettis County, MO, Platte County, MO, Polk County, MO, Ray County, MO, St. Clair County, MO, Vernon County, MO, Webster County, MO, Wright County, MO
The radar
The Pleasant Hill radar (KEAX), 31 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:54 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
22 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 5, 4:38 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Jackson, Shawnee | 37 min |
| Aug 5, 5:06 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Jefferson | 24 min |
| Aug 5, 5:53 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Douglas | 37 min |
| Aug 5, 6:04 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Miami | 41 min |
| Aug 5, 6:04 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Franklin | 56 min |
| Aug 5, 6:23 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Lyon, Osage | 52 min |
| Aug 5, 6:45 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Cass | 45 min |
| Aug 5, 6:50 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Linn | 55 min |
| Aug 5, 6:54 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | Bourbon | 66 min |
| Aug 5, 6:56 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Anderson | 64 min |
| Aug 5, 7:18 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Henry | 72 min |
| Aug 5, 7:21 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Bates | 69 min |
| Aug 5, 7:22 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Coffey | 23 min |
| Aug 5, 7:26 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Allen | 64 min |
| Aug 5, 7:32 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | Laclede | 43 min |
| Aug 5, 7:36 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | Benton | 54 min |
| Aug 5, 7:44 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | Crawford | 61 min |
| Aug 5, 7:51 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Neosho | 69 min |
| Aug 5, 8:13 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | SGF | Crawford | 32 min |
| Aug 5, 8:24 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | SGF | Cherokee | 66 min |
| Aug 5, 8:30 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | Benton | 60 min |
| Aug 5, 8:58 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | Camden | 62 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
Topeka, KS (KTOP), launched 12:00Z, 8.9 hours before the alert went out and 119 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
- -218 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1205 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 27 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 84 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 80 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 2.4
SPC that day
Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 5, 1:50 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Allen, Anderson, Atchison, Bourbon, Brown, Coffey and 20 more | 115 min |
| Aug 5, 3:19 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Clark, Comanche, Ford, Gray, Kiowa, Meade | 116 min |
| Aug 5, 5:51 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Allen, Anderson, Bourbon, Cherokee, Coffey, Crawford and 17 more | 114 min |
| Aug 4, 8:10 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Butler, Christian, Douglas, Dunklin, Howell, New Madrid and 5 more | 95 min |
| Aug 4, 9:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Douglas, Dunklin, Howell, Ozark | 6 hr |
| Aug 4, 11:02 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Dunklin, Pemiscot | 88 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.