Alert archive / Kansas / Severe Thunderstorm Watches in 2004
Severe Thunderstorm Watch 180
The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at May 10, 2004, 7:15 PM CDT for 30 counties in Kansas. It was in force for 5 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- May 10, 2004, 7:15 PM CDT (00:15 UTC)
- Expired
- May 11, 2004, 12:00 AM CDT
- In force
- 5 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
All 30 counties
Cheyenne County, KS, Decatur County, KS, Finney County, KS, Ford County, KS, Gove County, KS, Graham County, KS, Grant County, KS, Gray County, KS, Greeley County, KS, Hamilton County, KS, Haskell County, KS, Hodgeman County, KS, Kearny County, KS, Lane County, KS, Logan County, KS, Meade County, KS, Morton County, KS, Ness County, KS, Norton County, KS, Rawlins County, KS, Scott County, KS, Seward County, KS, Sheridan County, KS, Sherman County, KS, Stanton County, KS, Stevens County, KS, Thomas County, KS, Trego County, KS, Wallace County, KS, Wichita County, KS
The radar
The Dodge City radar (KDDC), 111 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:16 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
7 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 10, 7:24 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Grant | 81 min |
| May 10, 7:31 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Hamilton | 29 min |
| May 10, 7:37 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Greeley | 53 min |
| May 10, 7:59 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Hamilton | 31 min |
| May 10, 8:25 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Wichita | 65 min |
| May 10, 10:02 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Finney, Haskell | 43 min |
| May 10, 10:18 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Gray | 57 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, 0.3 hours before the alert went out and 117 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
- 2209 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -29 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1154 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 33 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 55 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 323 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 1.0
- Supercell composite
- 5.3
SPC that day
Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 10, 7:07 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Cheyenne, Finney, Gove, Grant, Gray, Greeley and 17 more | 2 hr |
| May 10, 9:34 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Cheyenne, Clark, Decatur, Finney, Ford, Gove and 18 more | 86 min |
| May 10, 10:45 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Decatur, Norton | 4 hr |
| May 11, 2:00 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Cheyenne, Grant, Greeley, Hamilton, Kearny, Logan and 8 more | 2 hr |
| May 11, 2:40 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Cheyenne, Decatur, Finney, Gove, Grant, Gray and 19 more | 6 hr |
| May 11, 5:20 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Decatur, Finney, Gove, Grant, Gray, Haskell and 10 more | 115 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.