Alert archive / Kansas / Severe Thunderstorm Watches in 2004

Severe Thunderstorm Watch 472

June 14, 200413 counties in Colorado; 36 counties in Kansas

The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at Jun 14, 2004, 4:45 PM MDT for 13 counties in Colorado; 36 counties in Kansas. It was in force for 6 hr.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued
Jun 14, 2004, 4:45 PM MDT (22:45 UTC)
Expired
Jun 14, 2004, 11:00 PM MDT
In force
6 hr
Issued by
the Storm Prediction Center
All 49 counties

Adams County, CO, Arapahoe County, CO, Bent County, CO, Cheyenne County, CO, Crowley County, CO, El Paso County, CO, Elbert County, CO, Kiowa County, CO, Kit Carson County, CO, Lincoln County, CO, Otero County, CO, Prowers County, CO, Pueblo County, CO, Barber County, KS, Barton County, KS, Clark County, KS, Comanche County, KS, Edwards County, KS, Ellis County, KS, Finney County, KS, Ford County, KS, Gove County, KS, Graham County, KS, Grant County, KS, Gray County, KS, Greeley County, KS, Hamilton County, KS, Haskell County, KS, Hodgeman County, KS, Kearny County, KS, Kiowa County, KS, Lane County, KS, Logan County, KS, Meade County, KS, Ness County, KS, Pawnee County, KS, Pratt County, KS, Rooks County, KS, Rush County, KS, Russell County, KS, Scott County, KS, Sheridan County, KS, Sherman County, KS, Stafford County, KS, Stanton County, KS, Thomas County, KS, Trego County, KS, Wallace County, KS, Wichita County, KS

The radar

The Goodland radar (KGLD), 81 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:46 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

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 14, 4:52 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningICTBarton53 min
Jun 14, 5:02 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCEdwards43 min
Jun 14, 5:44 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPUBPueblo61 min
Jun 14, 5:44 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningICTBarton61 min
Jun 14, 5:48 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCRush42 min
Jun 14, 6:06 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCEdwards39 min
Jun 14, 6:22 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCFord38 min
Jun 14, 6:32 PM MDTTornado WarningDDCRush28 min
Jun 14, 7:02 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCRush58 min
Jun 14, 7:49 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningICTBarton56 min
Jun 14, 7:59 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCRush61 min
Jun 14, 8:06 PM MDTTornado WarningPUBCrowley39 min
Jun 14, 8:24 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCPawnee51 min
Jun 14, 8:41 PM MDTTornado WarningDDCRush19 min
Jun 14, 8:56 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGLDCheyenne, Kit Carson49 min
Jun 14, 9:03 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCRush42 min
Jun 14, 9:16 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCPawnee59 min
Jun 14, 9:21 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCNess54 min
Jun 14, 9:34 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCStafford56 min
Jun 14, 9:42 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGLDCheyenne, Kit Carson48 min
Jun 14, 10:03 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGLDWallace57 min
Jun 14, 10:19 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCEdwards, Pawnee56 min
Jun 14, 10:25 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGLDSherman65 min
Jun 14, 10:32 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCPratt, Stafford58 min
Jun 14, 10:53 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGLDGreeley52 min
Jun 14, 10:58 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGLDWallace32 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, 10.8 hours before the alert went out and 148 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 2004-06-14Temperature 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 2004-06-14The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 48 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
2132 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
36 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
48 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
200 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
Jun 14, 2:55 PM MDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCAdams, Arapahoe, Broomfield, Denver, Douglas, Elbert and 8 more2 hr
Jun 14, 10:33 AM MDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCAtchison, Brown, Clay, Cloud, Dickinson, Doniphan and 14 more3 hr
Jun 14, 12:20 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPCAnderson, Atchison, Brown, Chase, Clay, Cloud and 33 more8 hr
Jun 14, 4:09 PM MDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCAnderson, Atchison, Brown, Chase, Clay, Cloud and 33 more96 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.