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Severe Thunderstorm Watch 476

June 15, 200433 counties in Kansas

The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at Jun 15, 2004, 3:40 AM CDT for 33 counties in Kansas. It was in force for 5 hr.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued
Jun 15, 2004, 3:40 AM CDT (08:40 UTC)
Expired
Jun 15, 2004, 9:00 AM CDT
In force
5 hr
Issued by
the Storm Prediction Center
All 33 counties

Allen County, KS, Anderson County, KS, Butler County, KS, Chase County, KS, Chautauqua County, KS, Coffey County, KS, Cowley County, KS, Dickinson County, KS, Douglas County, KS, Elk County, KS, Ellsworth County, KS, Franklin County, KS, Geary County, KS, Greenwood County, KS, Harvey County, KS, Kingman County, KS, Labette County, KS, Lincoln County, KS, Lyon County, KS, Marion County, KS, McPherson County, KS, Montgomery County, KS, Morris County, KS, Neosho County, KS, Osage County, KS, Ottawa County, KS, Reno County, KS, Rice County, KS, Saline County, KS, Sedgwick County, KS, Wabaunsee County, KS, Wilson County, KS, Woodson County, KS

The radar

The Wichita radar (KICT), 82 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 08:43 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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Warnings issued inside it

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 15, 3:41 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningICTEllsworth, Lincoln64 min
Jun 15, 3:46 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningICTRice59 min
Jun 15, 3:50 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTOPLyon, Morris, Wabaunsee55 min
Jun 15, 3:51 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningICTChase54 min
Jun 15, 4:09 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningICTMcPherson, Saline66 min
Jun 15, 4:21 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningTOPGeary3 hr
Jun 15, 4:37 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningICTReno53 min
Jun 15, 4:38 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTOPOsage, Shawnee52 min
Jun 15, 4:42 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningICTChase63 min
Jun 15, 4:49 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningICTHarvey56 min
Jun 15, 4:52 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningTOPMorris3 hr
Jun 15, 5:01 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTOPLyon59 min
Jun 15, 5:06 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningTOPWabaunsee3 hr
Jun 15, 5:07 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningICTMarion53 min
Jun 15, 5:30 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningICTSedgwick60 min
Jun 15, 5:43 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningICTChase62 min
Jun 15, 5:44 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningICTButler61 min
Jun 15, 5:44 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningTOPLyon3 hr
Jun 15, 5:48 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTOPLyon, Morris42 min
Jun 15, 6:02 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningICTGreenwood58 min
Jun 15, 6:27 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTOPCoffey, Lyon, Osage63 min
Jun 15, 8:43 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningTOPLyon92 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, 8.7 hours before the alert went out and 147 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, Topeka, KS at 00:00Z on 2004-06-15Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 5020 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, Topeka, KS at 00:00Z on 2004-06-15The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 110 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
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.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 14, 8:21 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCAnderson, Atchison, Brown, Chase, Clay, Cloud and 33 more54 min
Jun 14, 9:52 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCAtchison, Brown, Clay, Cloud, Doniphan, Douglas and 13 more113 min
Jun 14, 10:32 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCBarber, Barton, Cheyenne, Clark, Comanche, Decatur and 40 more88 min
Jun 14, 11:00 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPCBarton, Decatur, Edwards, Ellis, Ellsworth, Finney and 33 more5 hr
Jun 14, 11:25 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPCAtchison, Brown, Clay, Dickinson, Doniphan, Douglas and 19 more5 hr
Jun 15, 2:00 AM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCBarton, Clay, Cloud, Dickinson, Edwards, Ellis and 21 more2 hr
Jun 15, 4:50 AM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCBarton, Chase, Clay, Dickinson, Ellsworth, Geary and 15 more115 min
Jun 15, 7:07 AM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCAllen, Anderson, Bourbon, Cherokee, Crawford, Franklin and 6 more83 min
Jun 15, 1:53 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCCheyenne, Greeley, Hamilton, Morton, Sherman, Stanton and 1 more2 hr
Jun 15, 6:30 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPCCheyenne, Decatur, Gove, Graham, Greeley, Logan and 12 more6 hr

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.