Alert archive / Kansas / Severe Thunderstorm Watches in 2004
Severe Thunderstorm Watch 377
The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at Jun 2, 2004, 9:35 AM CDT for 18 counties in Kansas; 5 counties in Oklahoma. It was in force for 5 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 2, 2004, 9:35 AM CDT (14:35 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 2, 2004, 3:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 5 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
All 23 counties
Barber County, KS, Clark County, KS, Comanche County, KS, Edwards County, KS, Ford County, KS, Grant County, KS, Gray County, KS, Harper County, KS, Haskell County, KS, Kingman County, KS, Kiowa County, KS, Meade County, KS, Pratt County, KS, Reno County, KS, Seward County, KS, Stanton County, KS, Stevens County, KS, Sumner County, KS, Alfalfa County, OK, Beaver County, OK, Grant County, OK, Harper County, OK, Woods County, OK
The radar
The Dodge City radar (KDDC), 79 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 14:36 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
19 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 2, 9:40 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Ford | 65 min |
| Jun 2, 9:49 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Pratt, Stafford | 56 min |
| Jun 2, 10:05 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Kiowa | 55 min |
| Jun 2, 10:43 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Ford | 92 min |
| Jun 2, 10:47 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Barber, Pratt | 58 min |
| Jun 2, 10:54 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Harper, Kingman | 66 min |
| Jun 2, 11:07 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Gray | 53 min |
| Jun 2, 11:10 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Kiowa | 65 min |
| Jun 2, 11:22 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Alfalfa, Grant | 53 min |
| Jun 2, 11:55 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Sumner | 65 min |
| Jun 2, 11:57 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Clark | 63 min |
| Jun 2, 12:10 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Alfalfa, Grant | 35 min |
| Jun 2, 12:16 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Kiowa | 44 min |
| Jun 2, 12:23 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Comanche | 67 min |
| Jun 2, 12:41 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Garfield, Grant | 49 min |
| Jun 2, 1:05 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Barber | 55 min |
| Jun 2, 1:13 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Woods | 47 min |
| Jun 2, 1:48 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Alfalfa | 27 min |
| Jun 2, 2:15 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Alfalfa, Grant | 45 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 12:00Z, 2.6 hours before the alert went out and 74 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
- 174 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -176 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1491 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 46 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 120 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 213 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 1.7
SPC that day
Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 2, 11:50 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Barber, Clark, Comanche, Harper, Kiowa, Meade and 2 more | 85 min |
| Jun 2, 3:20 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Clark, Grant, Haskell, Meade, Morton, Seward and 2 more | 7 hr |
| Jun 2, 6:27 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Greeley, Hamilton, Kearny, Stanton, Wallace, Wichita | 93 min |
| Jun 2, 12:15 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Alfalfa, Blaine, Canadian, Cherokee, Craig, Creek and 25 more | 5 hr |
| Jun 2, 1:30 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Adair | 5 hr |
| Jun 2, 1:40 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Cimarron | 3 hr |
| Jun 2, 2:35 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Adair, Caddo, Canadian, Cherokee, Cleveland, Creek and 21 more | 115 min |
| Jun 2, 2:50 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Atoka, Bryan, Caddo, Carter, Choctaw, Cleveland and 23 more | 4 hr |
| Jun 2, 4:49 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Atoka, Bryan, Carter, Choctaw, Johnston, LeFlore and 4 more | 56 min |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Watches in Kansas, 2004Severe Thunderstorm Watches in Oklahoma, 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.