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Severe Thunderstorm Watch 536
The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at Jul 2, 2004, 3:50 PM MDT for 4 states. It was in force for 5 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 2, 2004, 3:50 PM MDT (21:50 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 2, 2004, 9:00 PM MDT
- In force
- 5 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
All 30 counties
Baca County, CO, Bent County, CO, Kiowa County, CO, Prowers County, CO, Grant County, KS, Greeley County, KS, Hamilton County, KS, Kearny County, KS, Morton County, KS, Seward County, KS, Stanton County, KS, Stevens County, KS, Wichita County, KS, Cimarron County, OK, Texas County, OK, Armstrong County, TX, Carson County, TX, Collingsworth County, TX, Donley County, TX, Gray County, TX, Hansford County, TX, Hemphill County, TX, Hutchinson County, TX, Moore County, TX, Ochiltree County, TX, Potter County, TX, Randall County, TX, Roberts County, TX, Sherman County, TX, Wheeler County, TX
The radar
The Dodge City radar (KDDC), 159 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:55 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
11 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 2, 4:23 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | Kiowa | 67 min |
| Jul 2, 4:38 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Morton | 67 min |
| Jul 2, 5:00 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | Baca | 90 min |
| Jul 2, 5:36 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AMA | Texas | 84 min |
| Jul 2, 6:11 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | Baca | 64 min |
| Jul 2, 6:20 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Hamilton | 55 min |
| Jul 2, 6:27 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Stanton | 48 min |
| Jul 2, 6:40 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | Prowers | 65 min |
| Jul 2, 6:45 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Kearny | 75 min |
| Jul 2, 7:12 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Hamilton, Stanton | 48 min |
| Jul 2, 7:16 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Grant | 59 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 12:00Z, 9.8 hours before the alert went out and 165 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
- 54 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -165 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1007 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 26 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 10 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 76 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
SPC that day
Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 2, 1:12 PM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Baca, Las Animas | 3 hr |
| Jul 1, 7:01 PM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Alfalfa, Beckham, Blaine, Caddo, Canadian, Cleveland and 30 more | 59 min |
| Jul 2, 9:08 AM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Adair, Atoka, Bryan, Cherokee, Choctaw, Cleveland and 32 more | 2 hr |
| Jul 2, 2:29 PM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Comanche, Cotton, Harmon, Jackson, Jefferson, Tillman | 91 min |
| Jul 2, 2:55 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Beckham, Caddo, Comanche, Cotton, Greer, Harmon and 4 more | 6 hr |
| Jul 2, 4:15 PM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Adair, Cherokee, Craig, Delaware, Haskell, Hughes and 13 more | 90 min |
| Jul 2, 5:50 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Adair, Atoka, Cherokee, Coal, Craig, Creek and 20 more | 5 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.