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Severe Thunderstorm Watch 401

June 5, 200435 counties in Kansas; 10 counties in Oklahoma; 4 counties in Texas

The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at Jun 5, 2004, 4:35 PM CDT for 35 counties in Kansas; 10 counties in Oklahoma; 4 counties in Texas. It was in force for 6 hr.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued: Jun 5, 2004, 4:35 PM CDT (21:35 UTC)
Expired: Jun 5, 2004, 11:00 PM CDT
In force: 6 hr
Issued by: the Storm Prediction Center

All 49 counties

Barber County, KS, Barton County, KS, Clark County, KS, Clay County, KS, Cloud County, KS, Comanche County, KS, Dickinson County, KS, Edwards County, KS, Ellis County, KS, Ellsworth County, KS, Ford County, KS, Harper County, KS, Harvey County, KS, Jewell County, KS, Kingman County, KS, Kiowa County, KS, Lincoln County, KS, Marshall County, KS, McPherson County, KS, Mitchell County, KS, Osborne County, KS, Ottawa County, KS, Pawnee County, KS, Pratt County, KS, Reno County, KS, Republic County, KS, Rice County, KS, Riley County, KS, Rush County, KS, Russell County, KS, Saline County, KS, Sedgwick County, KS, Smith County, KS, Stafford County, KS, Washington County, KS, Alfalfa County, OK, Blaine County, OK, Custer County, OK, Dewey County, OK, Ellis County, OK, Harper County, OK, Major County, OK, Roger Mills County, OK, Woods County, OK, Woodward County, OK, Gray County, TX, Hemphill County, TX, Lipscomb County, TX, Wheeler County, TX

The radar

The Dodge City radar (KDDC), 93 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:37 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

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 5, 5:05 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Barton	55 min
Jun 5, 5:08 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Ellsworth	67 min
Jun 5, 5:12 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Rice	63 min
Jun 5, 5:16 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Harper	59 min
Jun 5, 5:27 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Stafford	63 min
Jun 5, 5:58 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Reno	62 min
Jun 5, 6:13 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Ellis, Harper, Woodward	62 min
Jun 5, 6:31 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Stafford	74 min
Jun 5, 6:53 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Reno	67 min
Jun 5, 6:54 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Pratt	81 min
Jun 5, 7:14 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Kingman	61 min
Jun 5, 7:20 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AMA	Lipscomb	55 min
Jun 5, 7:32 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Ellis	28 min
Jun 5, 7:57 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Ellis	48 min
Jun 5, 8:00 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Barber	75 min
Jun 5, 8:01 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AMA	Hemphill	59 min
Jun 5, 8:16 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Pratt	59 min
Jun 5, 8:32 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Dewey, Roger Mills	43 min
Jun 5, 9:18 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Barber	42 min
Jun 5, 9:21 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Alfalfa, Woods	39 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, 9.6 hours before the alert went out and 89 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: 408 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -382 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 995 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 24 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 112 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 171 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.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 4, 8:04 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Barton, Cheyenne, Clark, Comanche, Decatur, Edwards and 30 more	116 min
Jun 5, 2:34 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Clark, Ford, Meade, Seward	116 min
Jun 5, 2:40 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Ellis, Jewell, Lincoln, Mitchell, Osborne, Phillips and 3 more	95 min
Jun 5, 5:48 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Barber, Barton, Clark, Comanche, Edwards, Ford and 9 more	87 min
Jun 5, 5:00 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Choctaw, McCurtain	60 min
Jun 4, 7:25 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	Anderson, Bell, Bosque, Brown, Callahan, Coleman and 22 more	4 hr
Jun 4, 9:35 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Bell, Burnet, Coryell, Lampasas, Williamson	115 min
Jun 4, 11:43 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Borden, Brown, Callahan, Coke, Coleman, Concho and 18 more	2 hr
Jun 5, 11:45 AM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Chambers, Hardin, Harris, Jasper, Jefferson, Liberty and 3 more	3 hr
Jun 5, 3:15 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	Armstrong, Bailey, Briscoe, Carson, Castro, Cochran and 17 more	6 hr
Jun 5, 3:28 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Borden, Coke, Crosby, Dawson, Dickens, Fisher and 14 more	2 hr
Jun 5, 4:14 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Atascosa, Bandera, Bexar, Brazoria, Caldwell, Calhoun and 17 more	2 hr

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Watches in Kansas, 2004 Severe Thunderstorm Watches in Oklahoma, 2004 Severe Thunderstorm Watches in Texas, 2004 Every 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.