Alert archive / Kansas / Severe Thunderstorm Watches in 2003
Severe Thunderstorm Watch 871
The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at Aug 19, 2003, 1:40 PM MDT for 5 states. It was in force for 5 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Aug 19, 2003, 1:40 PM MDT (19:40 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 19, 2003, 7:00 PM MDT
- In force
- 5 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
All 49 counties
Baca County, CO, Bent County, CO, Crowley County, CO, Kiowa County, CO, Las Animas County, CO, Otero County, CO, Prowers County, CO, Barber County, KS, Barton County, KS, Clark County, KS, Comanche County, KS, Edwards County, KS, Ellis County, KS, Finney County, KS, Ford County, KS, Gove County, KS, Grant County, KS, Gray County, KS, Greeley County, KS, Hamilton County, KS, Haskell County, KS, Hodgeman County, KS, Kearny County, KS, Kiowa County, KS, Lane County, KS, Meade County, KS, Morton County, KS, Ness County, KS, Pawnee County, KS, Pratt County, KS, Rush County, KS, Russell County, KS, Scott County, KS, Seward County, KS, Stafford County, KS, Stanton County, KS, Stevens County, KS, Trego County, KS, Wichita County, KS, Union County, NM, Alfalfa County, OK, Beaver County, OK, Cimarron County, OK, Harper County, OK, Texas County, OK, Woods County, OK, Dallam County, TX, Hansford County, TX, Sherman County, TX
The radar
The Dodge City radar (KDDC), 172 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:43 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
8 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 19, 3:07 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Edwards | 38 min |
| Aug 19, 4:51 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Morton, Stanton | 54 min |
| Aug 19, 5:39 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Lane | 51 min |
| Aug 19, 5:41 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Greeley | 64 min |
| Aug 19, 5:58 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Hamilton, Stanton | 32 min |
| Aug 19, 6:06 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Kearny | 54 min |
| Aug 19, 6:14 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Stevens | 61 min |
| Aug 19, 6:33 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Ness | 42 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, 7.7 hours before the alert went out and 178 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
- 594 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -233 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1940 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 20 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 113 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 209 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 19, 1:05 PM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Baca, Las Animas | 85 min |
| Aug 19, 5:10 PM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Baca, Bent, Kiowa, Otero, Prowers | 95 min |
| Aug 19, 1:51 PM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Atchison, Brown, Clay, Cloud, Dickinson, Doniphan and 12 more | 84 min |
| Aug 19, 2:25 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Atchison, Brown, Clay, Cloud, Dickinson, Doniphan and 16 more | 6 hr |
| Aug 19, 5:37 PM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Decatur, Norton, Phillips | 113 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.