Alert archive / Kansas / Severe Thunderstorm Watches in 2004
Severe Thunderstorm Watch 543
The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at Jul 3, 2004, 10:10 PM CDT for 4 states. It was in force for 6 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 3, 2004, 10:10 PM CDT (03:10 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 4, 2004, 4:00 AM CDT
- In force
- 6 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
All 42 counties
Fremont County, IA, Atchison County, KS, Brown County, KS, Chase County, KS, Clay County, KS, Cloud County, KS, Coffey County, KS, Dickinson County, KS, Douglas County, KS, Geary County, KS, Jackson County, KS, Jefferson County, KS, Lyon County, KS, Marion County, KS, Marshall County, KS, McPherson County, KS, Morris County, KS, Nemaha County, KS, Osage County, KS, Ottawa County, KS, Pottawatomie County, KS, Republic County, KS, Riley County, KS, Saline County, KS, Shawnee County, KS, Wabaunsee County, KS, Washington County, KS, Atchison County, MO, Holt County, MO, Fillmore County, NE, Gage County, NE, Jefferson County, NE, Johnson County, NE, Lancaster County, NE, Nemaha County, NE, Otoe County, NE, Pawnee County, NE, Richardson County, NE, Saline County, NE, Seward County, NE, Thayer County, NE, York County, NE
The radar
The Topeka radar (KTWX), 47 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 03:14 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
1 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 4, 1:54 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Harvey, McPherson | 66 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, 3.2 hours before the alert went out and 95 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
- 1692 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -53 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1284 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 36 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 67 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 72 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.3
- Supercell composite
- 2.4
SPC that day
Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 3, 9:41 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Clay, Cloud, Ellis, Gove, Graham, Jewell and 14 more | 64 min |
| Jul 3, 10:25 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Barton, Dickinson, Ellis, Ellsworth, Geary, Gove and 17 more | 6 hr |
| Jul 4, 1:45 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Atchison, Barton, Brown, Chase, Clay, Coffey and 31 more | 90 min |
| Jul 4, 2:55 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Allen, Anderson, Barber, Barton, Butler, Chase and 40 more | 5 hr |
| Jul 4, 5:05 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Bourbon, Chautauqua, Cherokee, Crawford, Labette, Montgomery and 1 more | 5 hr |
| Jul 4, 6:08 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Bourbon, Cherokee, Crawford, Labette, Montgomery, Neosho | 2 hr |
| Jul 4, 6:09 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Bourbon, Cherokee, Crawford, Labette, Montgomery, Neosho | 2 hr |
| Jul 4, 2:15 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Cheyenne, Decatur, Gove, Grant, Greeley, Hamilton and 12 more | 8 hr |
| Jul 4, 3:21 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Barber, Barton, Clark, Comanche, Edwards, Ford and 10 more | 84 min |
| Jul 4, 3:40 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Barber, Barton, Clark, Comanche, Edwards, Ellis and 16 more | 6 hr |
| Jul 4, 5:24 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Cheyenne, Decatur, Finney, Gove, Grant, Greeley and 16 more | 96 min |
| Jul 4, 9:00 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Dunklin, Pemiscot | 5 hr |
| Jul 4, 10:38 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Dunklin, Pemiscot | 2 hr |
| Jul 4, 11:35 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Bollinger, Dunklin, Mississippi, New Madrid, Pemiscot, Scott and 1 more | 4 hr |
| Jul 4, 1:28 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Arthur, Blaine, Box Butte, Chase, Cherry, Deuel and 13 more | 2 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.