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Severe Thunderstorm Watch 474

June 14, 2004Prowers County, Colorado; 39 counties in Kansas; 8 counties in Nebraska

The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at Jun 14, 2004, 10:00 PM MDT for Prowers County, Colorado; 39 counties in Kansas; 8 counties in Nebraska. It was in force for 5 hr.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued
Jun 14, 2004, 10:00 PM MDT (04:00 UTC)
Expired
Jun 15, 2004, 3:00 AM MDT
In force
5 hr
Issued by
the Storm Prediction Center
All 48 counties

Prowers County, CO, Barton County, KS, Decatur County, KS, Edwards County, KS, Ellis County, KS, Ellsworth County, KS, Finney County, KS, Ford County, KS, Gove County, KS, Graham County, KS, Gray County, KS, Greeley County, KS, Hamilton County, KS, Hodgeman County, KS, Jewell County, KS, Kearny County, KS, Lane County, KS, Lincoln County, KS, Logan County, KS, Mitchell County, KS, Ness County, KS, Norton County, KS, Osborne County, KS, Pawnee County, KS, Phillips County, KS, Pratt County, KS, Rawlins County, KS, Republic County, KS, Rooks County, KS, Rush County, KS, Russell County, KS, Scott County, KS, Sheridan County, KS, Sherman County, KS, Smith County, KS, Stafford County, KS, Thomas County, KS, Trego County, KS, Wallace County, KS, Wichita County, KS, Franklin County, NE, Furnas County, NE, Harlan County, NE, Hitchcock County, NE, Nuckolls County, NE, Red Willow County, NE, Thayer County, NE, Webster County, NE

The radar

The Dodge City radar (KDDC), 121 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 04:00 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

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 14, 10:03 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGLDWallace57 min
Jun 14, 10:12 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGLDRawlins63 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
Jun 14, 11:03 PM MDTTornado WarningGLDGreeley42 min
Jun 14, 11:12 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGLDRawlins48 min
Jun 14, 11:36 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGLDWichita54 min
Jun 14, 11:38 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGLDLogan67 min
Jun 14, 11:44 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGIDFurnas61 min
Jun 14, 11:49 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCFinney, Kearny41 min
Jun 15, 12:01 AM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCLane, Scott59 min
Jun 15, 12:06 AM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGLDSheridan54 min
Jun 15, 12:31 AM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCFinney, Kearny59 min
Jun 15, 12:32 AM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGLDGove58 min
Jun 15, 12:35 AM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGLDGraham55 min
Jun 15, 1:04 AM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCLane, Ness, Scott, Trego56 min
Jun 15, 1:24 AM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCEllis, Rush51 min
Jun 15, 1:32 AM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCFinney43 min
Jun 15, 1:37 AM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGIDThayer53 min
Jun 15, 1:42 AM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningICTBarton, Russell63 min
Jun 15, 2:15 AM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTOPCloud, Republic60 min
Jun 15, 2:40 AM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCFinney65 min
Jun 15, 2:41 AM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningICTEllsworth, Lincoln64 min
Jun 15, 2:50 AM MDTFlash Flood WarningGIDClay, Fillmore, Nuckolls, Thayer2 hr

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 00:00Z, 4.0 hours before the alert went out and 123 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, Dodge City, at 00:00Z on 2004-06-15Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1361 joules per kilogram.LCLEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Dodge City, at 00:00Z on 2004-06-15The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 46 square meters per square second.1939Sfc1 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
1361 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-16 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
2935 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
35 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
46 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
111 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
2.7

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SPC that day

Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 14, 9:32 PM MDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCAdams, Arapahoe, Bent, Cheyenne, Crowley, Elbert and 9 more88 min
Jun 15, 12:53 PM MDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCAdams, Arapahoe, Baca, Bent, Boulder, Broomfield and 23 more2 hr
Jun 15, 1:20 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPCAdams, Arapahoe, Baca, Bent, Cheyenne, Crowley and 18 more8 hr
Jun 14, 7:21 PM MDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCAnderson, Atchison, Brown, Chase, Clay, Cloud and 33 more54 min
Jun 14, 8:52 PM MDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCAtchison, Brown, Clay, Cloud, Doniphan, Douglas and 13 more113 min
Jun 14, 10:25 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPCAtchison, Brown, Clay, Dickinson, Doniphan, Douglas and 19 more5 hr
Jun 15, 1:00 AM MDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCBarton, Clay, Cloud, Dickinson, Edwards, Ellis and 21 more2 hr
Jun 15, 2:40 AM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPCAllen, Anderson, Butler, Chase, Chautauqua, Coffey and 27 more5 hr
Jun 15, 3:50 AM MDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCBarton, Chase, Clay, Dickinson, Ellsworth, Geary and 15 more115 min
Jun 15, 6:07 AM MDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCAllen, Anderson, Bourbon, Cherokee, Crawford, Franklin and 6 more83 min
Jun 15, 5:30 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPCCheyenne, Decatur, Gove, Graham, Greeley, Logan and 12 more6 hr
Jun 15, 12:17 PM MDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCBlaine, Boyd, Brown, Holt, Keya Paha, Rock and 1 more118 min
Jun 15, 2:35 PM MDTTornado WatchSPCCedar, Dakota, Dixon, Knox, Pierce, Wayne6 hr
Jun 15, 4:19 PM MDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCArthur, Blaine, Boyd, Brown, Custer, Garfield and 12 more116 min

Nearby

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