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Severe Thunderstorm Watch 475

June 14, 200425 counties in Kansas; 12 counties in Missouri; 5 counties in Nebraska

The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at Jun 14, 2004, 11:25 PM CDT for 25 counties in Kansas; 12 counties in Missouri; 5 counties in Nebraska. It was in force for 5 hr.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued: Jun 14, 2004, 11:25 PM CDT (04:25 UTC)
Expired: Jun 15, 2004, 4:00 AM CDT
In force: 5 hr
Issued by: the Storm Prediction Center

All 42 counties

Atchison County, KS, Brown County, KS, Clay County, KS, Dickinson County, KS, Doniphan County, KS, Douglas County, KS, Franklin County, KS, Geary County, KS, Jackson County, KS, Jefferson County, KS, Johnson County, KS, Leavenworth County, KS, Linn County, KS, Lyon County, KS, Marshall County, KS, Miami County, KS, Morris County, KS, Nemaha County, KS, Osage County, KS, Pottawatomie County, KS, Riley County, KS, Shawnee County, KS, Wabaunsee County, KS, Washington County, KS, Wyandotte County, KS, Andrew County, MO, Bates County, MO, Buchanan County, MO, Caldwell County, MO, Cass County, MO, Clay County, MO, Clinton County, MO, DeKalb County, MO, Holt County, MO, Jackson County, MO, Platte County, MO, Ray County, MO, Gage County, NE, Jefferson County, NE, Pawnee County, NE, Richardson County, NE, Saline County, NE

The radar

The Topeka radar (KTWX), 62 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 04:26 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

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 14, 11:28 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Platte	62 min
Jun 14, 11:29 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OAX	Jefferson	31 min
Jun 14, 11:33 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	TOP	Marshall, Nemaha	3 hr
Jun 14, 11:45 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TOP	Jackson	45 min
Jun 14, 11:57 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TOP	Washington	33 min
Jun 15, 12:05 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	DeKalb	55 min
Jun 15, 12:29 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TOP	Marshall, Riley, Washington	46 min
Jun 15, 12:47 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	TOP	Washington	3 hr
Jun 15, 1:06 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TOP	Geary	54 min
Jun 15, 1:14 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TOP	Marshall, Pottawatomie, Riley	61 min
Jun 15, 1:30 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	TOP	Geary	3 hr
Jun 15, 2:00 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TOP	Geary	45 min
Jun 15, 2:33 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	TOP	Marshall, Washington	4 hr
Jun 15, 2:48 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	TOP	Riley	4 hr
Jun 15, 3:15 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TOP	Dickinson, Geary	45 min
Jun 15, 3:50 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TOP	Lyon, Morris, Wabaunsee	55 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

Topeka, KS (KTOP), launched 00:00Z, 4.4 hours before the alert went out and 63 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: 5020 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -4 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 935 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 35 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 110 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 223 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 2.8
Supercell composite: 14.3

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SPC that day

Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 14, 8:21 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Anderson, Atchison, Brown, Chase, Clay, Cloud and 33 more	54 min
Jun 14, 9:52 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Atchison, Brown, Clay, Cloud, Doniphan, Douglas and 13 more	113 min
Jun 14, 10:32 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Barber, Barton, Cheyenne, Clark, Comanche, Decatur and 40 more	88 min
Jun 14, 11:00 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	Barton, Decatur, Edwards, Ellis, Ellsworth, Finney and 33 more	5 hr
Jun 15, 2:00 AM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Barton, Clay, Cloud, Dickinson, Edwards, Ellis and 21 more	2 hr
Jun 15, 3:40 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	Allen, Anderson, Butler, Chase, Chautauqua, Coffey and 27 more	5 hr
Jun 15, 4:50 AM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Barton, Chase, Clay, Dickinson, Ellsworth, Geary and 15 more	115 min
Jun 15, 7:07 AM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Allen, Anderson, Bourbon, Cherokee, Crawford, Franklin and 6 more	83 min
Jun 15, 1:53 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Cheyenne, Greeley, Hamilton, Morton, Sherman, Stanton and 1 more	2 hr
Jun 15, 6:30 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	Cheyenne, Decatur, Gove, Graham, Greeley, Logan and 12 more	6 hr
Jun 15, 1:17 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Blaine, Boyd, Brown, Holt, Keya Paha, Rock and 1 more	118 min
Jun 15, 3:35 PM CDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	Cedar, Dakota, Dixon, Knox, Pierce, Wayne	6 hr
Jun 15, 5:19 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Arthur, Blaine, Boyd, Brown, Custer, Garfield and 12 more	116 min

Nearby

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