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Severe Thunderstorm Watch 282

May 24, 200453 counties in Kansas; 12 counties in Missouri

The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at May 24, 2004, 10:10 PM CDT for 53 counties in Kansas; 12 counties in Missouri. It was in force for 6 hr.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued: May 24, 2004, 10:10 PM CDT (03:10 UTC)
Expired: May 25, 2004, 4:00 AM CDT
In force: 6 hr
Issued by: the Storm Prediction Center

All 65 counties

Allen County, KS, Anderson County, KS, Barber County, KS, Barton County, KS, Bourbon County, KS, Butler County, KS, Chase County, KS, Chautauqua County, KS, Cherokee County, KS, Coffey County, KS, Comanche County, KS, Cowley County, KS, Crawford County, KS, Dickinson County, KS, Douglas County, KS, Edwards County, KS, Elk County, KS, Ellis County, KS, Ellsworth County, KS, Franklin County, KS, Geary County, KS, Greenwood County, KS, Harper County, KS, Harvey County, KS, Johnson County, KS, Kingman County, KS, Kiowa County, KS, Labette County, KS, Lincoln County, KS, Linn County, KS, Lyon County, KS, Marion County, KS, McPherson County, KS, Miami County, KS, Montgomery County, KS, Morris County, KS, Neosho County, KS, Osage County, KS, Pawnee County, KS, Pratt County, KS, Reno County, KS, Rice County, KS, Rush County, KS, Russell County, KS, Saline County, KS, Sedgwick County, KS, Shawnee County, KS, Stafford County, KS, Sumner County, KS, Wabaunsee County, KS, Wilson County, KS, Woodson County, KS, Wyandotte County, KS, Barton County, MO, Bates County, MO, Cass County, MO, Cedar County, MO, Dade County, MO, Henry County, MO, Jackson County, MO, Jasper County, MO, Johnson County, MO, Lafayette County, MO, St. Clair County, MO, Vernon County, MO

The radar

The Wichita radar (KICT), 75 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 03:12 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.

Warnings issued inside it

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 24, 10:14 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Ellis, Trego	61 min
May 24, 10:20 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TOP	Anderson	40 min
May 24, 10:28 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TOP	Osage	32 min
May 24, 10:28 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Bates, Cass	62 min
May 24, 10:54 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TOP	Franklin	36 min
May 24, 11:00 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Jackson	45 min
May 24, 11:11 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Johnson	64 min
May 25, 12:11 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Sedgwick	64 min
May 25, 12:54 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Butler	66 min
May 25, 1:34 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Elk, Greenwood	56 min
May 25, 2:49 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Cass	41 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 00:00Z, 3.2 hours before the alert went out and 163 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 3762 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -46 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1037 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 53 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 253 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 327 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 6.4
Supercell composite: 25.3

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SPC that day

Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 24, 8:15 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Anderson, Atchison, Brown, Chase, Clay, Coffey and 24 more	90 min
May 24, 9:18 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Barton, Decatur, Ellis, Ellsworth, Gove, Graham and 10 more	87 min
May 25, 12:00 AM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Allen, Anderson, Barber, Bourbon, Butler, Chase and 29 more	90 min
May 25, 2:17 AM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Allen, Anderson, Bourbon, Butler, Chautauqua, Cherokee and 14 more	118 min
May 24, 10:26 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Audrain, Benton, Boone, Callaway, Camden, Cole and 27 more	64 min
May 24, 10:45 PM CDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	Audrain, Boone, Callaway, Camden, Cole, Cooper and 18 more	5 hr
May 24, 11:45 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Audrain, Boone, Callaway, Camden, Cole, Cooper and 18 more	90 min
May 25, 11:12 AM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Benton, Boone, Callaway, Camden, Cedar, Cole and 25 more	93 min
May 25, 1:05 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	Crawford, Franklin, Jefferson, Lincoln, Montgomery, Pike and 4 more	6 hr
May 25, 2:39 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Bollinger, Butler, Cape Girardeau, Carter, Dent, Iron and 13 more	96 min
May 25, 3:00 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	Bollinger, Cape Girardeau, Carter, Crawford, Dent, Howell and 14 more	6 hr
May 25, 3:16 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Crawford, Franklin, Jefferson, Lincoln, Montgomery, Pike and 4 more	89 min
May 25, 5:03 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Bollinger, Cape Girardeau, Carter, Cole, Crawford, Dent and 23 more	87 min
May 25, 6:04 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Camden, Cole, Crawford, Franklin, Gasconade, Jefferson and 12 more	56 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.