Alert archive / Kansas / Severe Thunderstorm Watches in 2003
Severe Thunderstorm Watch 937
The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at Oct 13, 2003, 5:10 PM CDT for 23 counties in Kansas; 10 counties in Missouri; 13 counties in Oklahoma. It was in force for 6 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Oct 13, 2003, 5:10 PM CDT (22:10 UTC)
- Expired
- Oct 13, 2003, 11:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 6 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
All 46 counties
Allen County, KS, Anderson County, KS, Bourbon County, KS, Chautauqua County, KS, Cherokee County, KS, Coffey County, KS, Crawford County, KS, Douglas County, KS, Elk County, KS, Franklin County, KS, Jefferson County, KS, Johnson County, KS, Labette County, KS, Leavenworth County, KS, Linn County, KS, Miami County, KS, Montgomery County, KS, Neosho County, KS, Osage County, KS, Shawnee County, KS, Wilson County, KS, Woodson County, KS, Wyandotte County, KS, Barton County, MO, Bates County, MO, Cass County, MO, Clay County, MO, Jackson County, MO, Jasper County, MO, Johnson County, MO, Lafayette County, MO, Ray County, MO, Vernon County, MO, Cherokee County, OK, Craig County, OK, Creek County, OK, Delaware County, OK, Mayes County, OK, Nowata County, OK, Osage County, OK, Ottawa County, OK, Pawnee County, OK, Rogers County, OK, Tulsa County, OK, Wagoner County, OK, Washington County, OK
The radar
The Tulsa radar (KINX), 114 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:13 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 13, 8:37 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Osage | 38 min |
| Oct 13, 8:48 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Montgomery | 42 min |
| Oct 13, 8:53 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Labette | 67 min |
| Oct 13, 9:19 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | Barton | 41 min |
| Oct 13, 9:23 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | Cherokee | 67 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, 10.2 hours before the alert went out and 200 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1911 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 35 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 165 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 208 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
SPC that day
Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 13, 3:48 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Allen, Anderson, Bourbon, Chautauqua, Cherokee, Coffey and 10 more | 117 min |
| Oct 13, 6:46 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Bourbon, Chautauqua, Cherokee, Crawford, Elk, Johnson and 4 more | 3 hr |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Watches in Kansas, 2003Severe Thunderstorm Watches in Oklahoma, 2003Severe Thunderstorm Watches in Missouri, 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.