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Severe Thunderstorm Watch 545

July 4, 200446 counties in Kansas

The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at Jul 4, 2004, 2:55 AM CDT for 46 counties in Kansas. It was in force for 5 hr.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued
Jul 4, 2004, 2:55 AM CDT (07:55 UTC)
Expired
Jul 4, 2004, 8:00 AM CDT
In force
5 hr
Issued by
the Storm Prediction Center
All 46 counties

Allen County, KS, Anderson County, KS, Barber County, KS, Barton County, KS, Butler County, KS, Chase County, KS, Chautauqua County, KS, Coffey County, KS, Cowley County, KS, Edwards County, KS, Elk County, KS, Ellis County, KS, Ellsworth County, KS, Finney County, KS, Ford County, KS, Franklin County, KS, Gove County, KS, Gray County, KS, Greenwood County, KS, Harper County, KS, Harvey County, KS, Haskell County, KS, Hodgeman County, KS, Kingman County, KS, Kiowa County, KS, Labette County, KS, Lane County, KS, Lyon County, KS, Marion County, KS, McPherson County, KS, Montgomery County, KS, Morris County, KS, Neosho County, KS, Ness County, KS, Pawnee County, KS, Pratt County, KS, Reno County, KS, Rice County, KS, Rush County, KS, Scott County, KS, Sedgwick County, KS, Stafford County, KS, Sumner County, KS, Trego County, KS, Wilson County, KS, Woodson County, KS

The radar

The Dodge City radar (KDDC), 123 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 07:55 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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Warnings issued inside it

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jul 4, 2:59 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningICTHarvey46 min
Jul 4, 3:09 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCStafford66 min
Jul 4, 3:10 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningICTButler65 min
Jul 4, 3:12 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningICTGreenwood63 min
Jul 4, 3:14 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningICTSedgwick61 min
Jul 4, 3:27 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCPawnee, Rush63 min
Jul 4, 4:15 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningICTSedgwick60 min
Jul 4, 4:18 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningICTSumner57 min
Jul 4, 4:19 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningICTButler41 min
Jul 4, 4:28 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningICTCowley62 min
Jul 4, 4:33 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningICTElk57 min
Jul 4, 5:17 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningICTChautauqua58 min
Jul 4, 5:20 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningICTMontgomery, Wilson55 min
Jul 4, 5:40 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningICTLabette65 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, 7.9 hours before the alert went out and 117 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, Dodge City, at 00:00Z on 2004-07-04Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1249 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 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, Dodge City, at 00:00Z on 2004-07-04The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 15 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 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
1249 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-100 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
2323 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
30 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
15 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
188 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.8

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SPC that day

Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jul 3, 9:41 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCClay, Cloud, Ellis, Gove, Graham, Jewell and 14 more64 min
Jul 3, 10:10 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPCAtchison, Brown, Chase, Clay, Cloud, Coffey and 20 more6 hr
Jul 3, 10:25 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPCBarton, Dickinson, Ellis, Ellsworth, Geary, Gove and 17 more6 hr
Jul 4, 1:45 AM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCAtchison, Barton, Brown, Chase, Clay, Coffey and 31 more90 min
Jul 4, 5:05 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPCBourbon, Chautauqua, Cherokee, Crawford, Labette, Montgomery and 1 more5 hr
Jul 4, 6:08 AM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCBourbon, Cherokee, Crawford, Labette, Montgomery, Neosho2 hr
Jul 4, 6:09 AM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCBourbon, Cherokee, Crawford, Labette, Montgomery, Neosho2 hr
Jul 4, 2:15 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPCCheyenne, Decatur, Gove, Grant, Greeley, Hamilton and 12 more8 hr
Jul 4, 3:21 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCBarber, Barton, Clark, Comanche, Edwards, Ford and 10 more84 min
Jul 4, 3:40 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPCBarber, Barton, Clark, Comanche, Edwards, Ellis and 16 more6 hr
Jul 4, 5:24 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCCheyenne, Decatur, Finney, Gove, Grant, Greeley and 16 more96 min

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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.