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Severe Thunderstorm Watch 325

May 29, 20044 counties in Colorado; 14 counties in Kansas; 4 counties in Nebraska

The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at May 29, 2004, 2:55 PM MDT for 4 counties in Colorado; 14 counties in Kansas; 4 counties in Nebraska. It was in force for 6 hr.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued
May 29, 2004, 2:55 PM MDT (20:55 UTC)
Expired
May 29, 2004, 9:00 PM MDT
In force
6 hr
Issued by
the Storm Prediction Center
All 22 counties

Cheyenne County, CO, Kiowa County, CO, Kit Carson County, CO, Yuma County, CO, Cheyenne County, KS, Decatur County, KS, Gove County, KS, Greeley County, KS, Lane County, KS, Logan County, KS, Norton County, KS, Rawlins County, KS, Scott County, KS, Sheridan County, KS, Sherman County, KS, Thomas County, KS, Wallace County, KS, Wichita County, KS, Dundy County, NE, Furnas County, NE, Hitchcock County, NE, Red Willow County, NE

The radar

The Goodland radar (KGLD), 28 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:58 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

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
May 29, 3:45 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGLDKit Carson30 min
May 29, 3:53 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGLDSherman67 min
May 29, 4:15 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGLDDundy60 min
May 29, 4:36 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGLDCheyenne54 min
May 29, 4:45 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGLDRawlins, Thomas60 min
May 29, 4:58 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGLDSherman32 min
May 29, 5:08 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGLDHitchcock67 min
May 29, 5:19 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGLDDundy26 min
May 29, 5:51 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGLDDecatur, Sheridan54 min
May 29, 6:14 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGLDHitchcock61 min
May 29, 6:23 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGLDNorton67 min
May 29, 6:25 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGIDFurnas65 min
May 29, 6:53 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGLDRed Willow52 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

Denver, CO (KDNR), launched 12:00Z, 8.9 hours before the alert went out and 145 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Denver, CO at 12:00Z on 2004-05-29Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Denver, CO at 12:00Z on 2004-05-29The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -64 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
2494 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
41 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-64 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
1 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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SPC that day

Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
May 29, 12:54 PM MDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCAdams, Arapahoe, Cheyenne, Kiowa, Kit Carson, Lincoln and 3 more3 hr
May 29, 12:02 PM MDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCClay, Cloud, Dickinson, Ellsworth, Graham, Jewell and 14 more118 min
May 29, 1:55 PM MDTTornado WatchSPCBarber, Barton, Butler, Chase, Clark, Comanche and 20 more7 hr
May 29, 2:05 PM MDTTornado WatchSPCBrown, Clay, Cloud, Dickinson, Ellis, Ellsworth and 24 more7 hr
May 29, 3:35 PM MDTTornado WatchSPCAnderson, Atchison, Doniphan, Douglas, Franklin, Jefferson and 5 more5 hr
May 29, 3:57 PM MDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCBarber, Harper, Harvey, Kingman, Pratt, Reno and 3 more63 min
May 29, 4:16 PM MDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCCloud, Jewell, Mitchell, Republic, Washington59 min
May 29, 4:53 PM MDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCDecatur, Logan, Rawlins, Sheridan, Sherman, Thomas and 1 more67 min
May 28, 6:31 PM MDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCAntelope, Boone, Boyd, Burt, Cedar, Colfax and 20 more89 min
May 28, 8:03 PM MDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCAntelope, Boyd, Burt, Cedar, Colfax, Cuming and 12 more57 min
May 28, 8:50 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPCDakota5 hr
May 29, 11:42 AM MDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCCedar, Dakota, Dixon, Thurston93 min
May 29, 1:05 PM MDTTornado WatchSPCBoyd, Cedar, Dakota, Dixon, Holt, Knox and 2 more8 hr
May 29, 4:01 PM MDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCAntelope, Boyd, Cedar, Dakota, Dixon, Holt and 3 more119 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Watches in Kansas, 2004Severe Thunderstorm Watches in Colorado, 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.