Alert archive / Kansas / Severe Thunderstorm Watches in 2003
Severe Thunderstorm Watch 923
The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at Sep 10, 2003, 8:10 PM CDT for 17 counties in Kansas; 6 counties in Oklahoma; 10 counties in Texas. It was in force for 5 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Sep 10, 2003, 8:10 PM CDT (01:10 UTC)
- Expired
- Sep 11, 2003, 1:00 AM CDT
- In force
- 5 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
All 33 counties
Barton County, KS, Clark County, KS, Comanche County, KS, Edwards County, KS, Ellis County, KS, Ford County, KS, Gray County, KS, Hodgeman County, KS, Kiowa County, KS, Meade County, KS, Ness County, KS, Pawnee County, KS, Pratt County, KS, Rush County, KS, Russell County, KS, Stafford County, KS, Trego County, KS, Beaver County, OK, Beckham County, OK, Ellis County, OK, Harper County, OK, Roger Mills County, OK, Woodward County, OK, Armstrong County, TX, Carson County, TX, Collingsworth County, TX, Donley County, TX, Gray County, TX, Hemphill County, TX, Lipscomb County, TX, Ochiltree County, TX, Roberts County, TX, Wheeler County, TX
The radar
The Dodge City radar (KDDC), 146 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:10 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
16 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 10, 8:18 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | AMA | Collingsworth, Wheeler | 3 hr |
| Sep 10, 8:48 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Beckham | 42 min |
| Sep 10, 8:59 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AMA | Collingsworth, Wheeler | 61 min |
| Sep 10, 9:03 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | AMA | Donley, Gray | 3 hr |
| Sep 10, 9:26 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Gray | 34 min |
| Sep 10, 9:37 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Ford | 38 min |
| Sep 10, 9:41 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AMA | Donley, Gray | 64 min |
| Sep 10, 9:44 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | OUN | Beckham | 3 hr |
| Sep 10, 9:58 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AMA | Collingsworth, Wheeler | 62 min |
| Sep 10, 10:50 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Pawnee | 40 min |
| Sep 10, 11:10 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | AMA | Collingsworth, Wheeler | 4 hr |
| Sep 10, 11:18 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AMA | Donley | 57 min |
| Sep 10, 11:28 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Beckham, Greer, Harmon | 32 min |
| Sep 10, 11:52 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | AMA | Donley, Gray | 4 hr |
| Sep 11, 12:15 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | OUN | Beckham, Greer, Harmon | 3 hr |
| Sep 11, 12:19 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Beckham | 26 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 00:00Z, 1.2 hours before the alert went out and 148 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
- 1765 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -49 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1212 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 43 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 148 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 243 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 1.7
- Supercell composite
- 9.1
SPC that day
Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 10, 7:55 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Cloud, Graham, Jewell, Lincoln, Mitchell, Norton and 6 more | 5 hr |
| Sep 10, 11:05 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Cloud, Graham, Jewell, Mitchell, Norton, Osborne and 4 more | 115 min |
| Sep 10, 11:40 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Barton, Clark, Comanche, Edwards, Ellis, Ford and 9 more | 2 hr |
| Sep 11, 2:15 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Clay, Dickinson, Geary, Harper, Harvey, Kingman and 7 more | 3 hr |
| Sep 11, 1:54 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Custer, Jackson, Kiowa, Washita | 3 hr |
| Sep 11, 12:53 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Bosque, Brown, Callahan, Coleman, Comanche, Dallas and 20 more | 2 hr |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Watches in Kansas, 2003Severe Thunderstorm Watches in Texas, 2003Severe Thunderstorm Watches in Oklahoma, 2003Every severe thunderstorm watch in 2003
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.