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Severe Thunderstorm Watch 922

September 10, 200312 counties in Kansas; 45 counties in Nebraska

The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at Sep 10, 2003, 7:55 PM CDT for 12 counties in Kansas; 45 counties in Nebraska. It was in force for 5 hr.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued
Sep 10, 2003, 7:55 PM CDT (00:55 UTC)
Expired
Sep 11, 2003, 1:00 AM CDT
In force
5 hr
Issued by
the Storm Prediction Center
All 57 counties

Cloud County, KS, Graham County, KS, Jewell County, KS, Lincoln County, KS, Mitchell County, KS, Norton County, KS, Osborne County, KS, Ottawa County, KS, Phillips County, KS, Republic County, KS, Rooks County, KS, Smith County, KS, Adams County, NE, Antelope County, NE, Boone County, NE, Buffalo County, NE, Burt County, NE, Butler County, NE, Cedar County, NE, Clay County, NE, Colfax County, NE, Cuming County, NE, Dakota County, NE, Dixon County, NE, Dodge County, NE, Fillmore County, NE, Franklin County, NE, Garfield County, NE, Greeley County, NE, Hall County, NE, Hamilton County, NE, Harlan County, NE, Holt County, NE, Howard County, NE, Jefferson County, NE, Kearney County, NE, Knox County, NE, Madison County, NE, Merrick County, NE, Nance County, NE, Nuckolls County, NE, Phelps County, NE, Pierce County, NE, Platte County, NE, Polk County, NE, Saline County, NE, Saunders County, NE, Seward County, NE, Sherman County, NE, Stanton County, NE, Thayer County, NE, Thurston County, NE, Valley County, NE, Wayne County, NE, Webster County, NE, Wheeler County, NE, York County, NE

The radar

The Grand Island radar (KUEX), 22 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:58 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

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Sep 10, 8:21 PM CDTTornado WarningGIDOsborne39 min
Sep 10, 8:30 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningOAXSaline, Seward6 hr
Sep 10, 8:32 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGIDMitchell43 min
Sep 10, 9:00 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTOPCloud, Republic45 min
Sep 10, 9:02 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningICTLincoln58 min
Sep 10, 9:15 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGIDMitchell60 min
Sep 10, 9:25 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningGIDMitchell6 hr
Sep 10, 9:35 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGIDThayer55 min
Sep 10, 9:41 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOAXJefferson34 min
Sep 10, 9:44 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTOPCloud, Republic46 min
Sep 10, 10:03 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningICTLincoln6 hr
Sep 10, 10:17 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningGIDSherman3 hr
Sep 10, 10:33 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningTOPCloud, Republic, Washington3 hr
Sep 10, 10:45 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningGIDFillmore, Thayer3 hr
Sep 10, 10:47 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningOAXJefferson6 hr
Sep 10, 11:03 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGIDMitchell42 min
Sep 10, 11:06 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningGIDOsborne6 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

N. Platte/Lee Bi, NE (KLBF), launched 00:00Z, 0.9 hours before the alert went out and 188 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.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, N. Platte/Lee Bi, NE at 00:00Z on 2003-09-11Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 2303 joules per kilogram.LCLEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, N. Platte/Lee Bi, NE at 00:00Z on 2003-09-11The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 4 square meters per square second.1939587897117Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.
Mixed-layer CAPE
2303 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-5 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1417 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
70 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
4 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
90 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.4
Supercell composite
4.3

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SPC that day

Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Sep 10, 8:10 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPCBarton, Clark, Comanche, Edwards, Ellis, Ford and 11 more5 hr
Sep 10, 11:05 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCCloud, Graham, Jewell, Mitchell, Norton, Osborne and 4 more115 min
Sep 10, 11:40 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCBarton, Clark, Comanche, Edwards, Ellis, Ford and 9 more2 hr
Sep 11, 2:15 AM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCClay, Dickinson, Geary, Harper, Harvey, Kingman and 7 more3 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.