Alert archive / Kansas / Severe Thunderstorm Watches in 2003
Severe Thunderstorm Watch 874
The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at Aug 19, 2003, 7:15 PM CDT for 38 counties in Kansas. It was in force for 5 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Aug 19, 2003, 7:15 PM CDT (00:15 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 20, 2003, 12:00 AM CDT
- In force
- 5 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
All 38 counties
Barton County, KS, Clark County, KS, Comanche County, KS, Decatur County, KS, Edwards County, KS, Ellis County, KS, Finney County, KS, Ford County, KS, Gove County, KS, Graham County, KS, Grant County, KS, Gray County, KS, Haskell County, KS, Hodgeman County, KS, Kearny County, KS, Kiowa County, KS, Lane County, KS, Logan County, KS, Meade County, KS, Morton County, KS, Ness County, KS, Norton County, KS, Osborne County, KS, Pawnee County, KS, Phillips County, KS, Rawlins County, KS, Rooks County, KS, Rush County, KS, Russell County, KS, Scott County, KS, Seward County, KS, Sheridan County, KS, Smith County, KS, Stanton County, KS, Stevens County, KS, Thomas County, KS, Trego County, KS, Wichita County, KS
The radar
The Dodge City radar (KDDC), 73 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:18 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
5 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 19, 7:15 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Logan, Wallace | 60 min |
| Aug 19, 7:33 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Ness | 42 min |
| Aug 19, 8:12 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Logan | 63 min |
| Aug 19, 8:31 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Gove | 59 min |
| Aug 19, 8:39 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Wichita | 66 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.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 19, 10:09 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Barton, Clark, Comanche, Edwards, Ellis, Ford and 12 more | 96 min |
| Aug 20, 3:26 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Allen, Anderson, Bourbon, Coffey, Crawford, Douglas and 14 more | 94 min |
| Aug 20, 4:10 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Atchison, Brown, Dickinson, Doniphan, Douglas, Franklin and 12 more | 5 hr |
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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.