Alert archive / Kansas / Severe Thunderstorm Watches in 2004
Severe Thunderstorm Watch 209
The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at May 16, 2004, 6:45 PM CDT for 13 counties in Kansas; 12 counties in Nebraska. It was in force for 4 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- May 16, 2004, 6:45 PM CDT (23:45 UTC)
- Expired
- May 16, 2004, 11:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 4 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
All 25 counties
Clay County, KS, Cloud County, KS, Jewell County, KS, Lincoln County, KS, Marshall County, KS, Mitchell County, KS, Osborne County, KS, Ottawa County, KS, Republic County, KS, Riley County, KS, Russell County, KS, Smith County, KS, Washington County, KS, Adams County, NE, Clay County, NE, Fillmore County, NE, Franklin County, NE, Gage County, NE, Jefferson County, NE, Kearney County, NE, Lancaster County, NE, Nuckolls County, NE, Saline County, NE, Thayer County, NE, Webster County, NE
The radar
The Grand Island radar (KUEX), 51 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:49 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
2 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 16, 8:03 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Clay, Fillmore, Nuckolls, Thayer | 57 min |
| May 16, 8:18 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OAX | Jefferson, Saline | 42 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
Omaha, NE (KOAX), launched 12:00Z, 11.8 hours before the alert went out and 210 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
- 1219 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 31 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 49 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 59 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 16, 3:02 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Cheyenne, Decatur, Finney, Gove, Grant, Gray and 15 more | 88 min |
| May 16, 3:15 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Cheyenne, Clark, Decatur, Ellis, Finney, Ford and 28 more | 7 hr |
| May 16, 6:04 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Clark, Decatur, Ellis, Finney, Ford, Gove and 26 more | 86 min |
| May 16, 1:13 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Antelope, Boyd, Brown, Cedar, Dakota, Dixon and 12 more | 2 hr |
| May 16, 4:45 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Adams, Antelope, Boone, Boyd, Buffalo, Butler and 29 more | 5 hr |
| May 16, 6:55 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Adams, Antelope, Boone, Boyd, Buffalo, Butler and 29 more | 2 hr |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Watches in Kansas, 2004Severe Thunderstorm Watches in Nebraska, 2004Every severe thunderstorm watch in 2004
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.