Alert archive / Kansas / Severe Thunderstorm Watches in 2004
Severe Thunderstorm Watch 480
The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at Jun 15, 2004, 7:15 PM CDT for 18 counties in Kansas; Beaver County, Texas County, Oklahoma; Sherman County, Texas. It was in force for 5 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 15, 2004, 7:15 PM CDT (00:15 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 16, 2004, 12:00 AM CDT
- In force
- 5 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
All 21 counties
Clark County, KS, Finney County, KS, Ford County, KS, Grant County, KS, Gray County, KS, Hamilton County, KS, Haskell County, KS, Hodgeman County, KS, Kearny County, KS, Lane County, KS, Meade County, KS, Morton County, KS, Ness County, KS, Scott County, KS, Seward County, KS, Stanton County, KS, Stevens County, KS, Trego County, KS, Beaver County, OK, Texas County, OK, Sherman County, TX
The radar
The Dodge City radar (KDDC), 101 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:16 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
2 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 15, 7:35 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Morton | 40 min |
| Jun 15, 8:04 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Hamilton | 41 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 00:00Z, 0.3 hours before the alert went out and 107 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 1442 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -98 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1959 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 24 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -1 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 89 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 1.6
SPC that day
Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 15, 10:39 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Barton, Clark, Decatur, Edwards, Ellis, Finney and 20 more | 96 min |
| Jun 15, 11:55 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Cloud, Jewell, Mitchell, Osborne, Phillips, Republic and 3 more | 3 hr |
| Jun 16, 2:18 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Brown, Clay, Cloud, Doniphan, Marshall, Nemaha and 4 more | 57 min |
| Jun 16, 10:08 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Grant, Hamilton, Morton, Stanton, Stevens | 97 min |
| Jun 16, 12:40 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Allen, Anderson, Atchison, Bourbon, Brown, Butler and 28 more | 95 min |
| Jun 16, 1:12 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Cheyenne, Sherman | 3 hr |
| Jun 16, 1:50 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Finney, Grant, Greeley, Hamilton, Haskell, Kearny and 7 more | 7 hr |
| Jun 16, 6:42 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Finney, Grant, Gray, Greeley, Hamilton, Haskell and 11 more | 63 min |
| Jun 16, 3:00 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Cimarron | 6 hr |
| Jun 16, 2:05 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Bailey, Brewster, Cochran, Deaf Smith, Jeff Davis, Loving and 8 more | 2 hr |
| Jun 16, 6:51 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Andrews, Bailey, Castro, Cochran, Crane, Ector and 14 more | 2 hr |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Watches in Kansas, 2004Severe Thunderstorm Watches in Oklahoma, 2004Severe Thunderstorm Watches in Texas, 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.