Alert archive / Missouri / Severe Thunderstorm Watches in 2004
Severe Thunderstorm Watch 546
The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at Jul 4, 2004, 5:05 AM CDT for 4 states. It was in force for 5 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 4, 2004, 5:05 AM CDT (10:05 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 4, 2004, 10:00 AM CDT
- In force
- 5 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
All 49 counties
Benton County, AR, Boone County, AR, Carroll County, AR, Crawford County, AR, Madison County, AR, Washington County, AR, Bourbon County, KS, Chautauqua County, KS, Cherokee County, KS, Crawford County, KS, Labette County, KS, Montgomery County, KS, Neosho County, KS, Barry County, MO, Barton County, MO, Cedar County, MO, Christian County, MO, Dade County, MO, Dallas County, MO, Douglas County, MO, Greene County, MO, Henry County, MO, Hickory County, MO, Jasper County, MO, Lawrence County, MO, McDonald County, MO, Newton County, MO, Ozark County, MO, Polk County, MO, St. Clair County, MO, Stone County, MO, Taney County, MO, Vernon County, MO, Webster County, MO, Adair County, OK, Cherokee County, OK, Craig County, OK, Delaware County, OK, Haskell County, OK, Mayes County, OK, Muskogee County, OK, Nowata County, OK, Osage County, OK, Ottawa County, OK, Rogers County, OK, Sequoyah County, OK, Tulsa County, OK, Wagoner County, OK, Washington County, OK
The radar
The Springfield radar (KSGF), 81 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 10:06 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
26 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 4, 5:13 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Osage | 77 min |
| Jul 4, 5:17 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Chautauqua | 58 min |
| Jul 4, 5:20 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Montgomery, Wilson | 55 min |
| Jul 4, 5:40 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Labette | 65 min |
| Jul 4, 5:46 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Nowata, Washington | 44 min |
| Jul 4, 6:09 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Craig, Rogers | 96 min |
| Jul 4, 6:18 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | Cherokee | 57 min |
| Jul 4, 6:26 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Ottawa | 79 min |
| Jul 4, 6:35 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Mayes | 55 min |
| Jul 4, 6:46 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Delaware | 59 min |
| Jul 4, 6:54 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | Jasper, Newton | 66 min |
| Jul 4, 7:17 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Benton | 73 min |
| Jul 4, 7:19 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | McDonald | 71 min |
| Jul 4, 7:30 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | SGF | Cherokee | 6 hr |
| Jul 4, 7:38 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | Barry, Lawrence | 67 min |
| Jul 4, 7:46 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | TSA | Benton | 3 hr |
| Jul 4, 7:47 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | SGF | McDonald | 6 hr |
| Jul 4, 8:06 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Carroll | 54 min |
| Jul 4, 8:11 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | SGF | Barry | 6 hr |
| Jul 4, 8:12 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | Christian, Stone | 63 min |
| Jul 4, 8:16 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | SGF | Cherokee | 6 hr |
| Jul 4, 8:22 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | TSA | Carroll | 3 hr |
| Jul 4, 8:31 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | Taney | 74 min |
| Jul 4, 8:42 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Boone | 43 min |
| Jul 4, 9:10 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | Ozark | 65 min |
| Jul 4, 9:36 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | Douglas | 54 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
Springfield, MO (KSGF), launched 00:00Z, 10.1 hours before the alert went out and 54 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
- 908 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -14 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1132 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 32 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 107 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 215 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.4
- Supercell composite
- 4.9
SPC that day
Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 4, 6:08 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Benton, Boone, Carroll, Crawford, Madison, Washington | 2 hr |
| Jul 4, 6:09 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Benton, Boone, Carroll, Crawford, Madison, Washington | 2 hr |
| Jul 4, 9:00 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Baxter, Boone, Clay, Cleburne, Conway, Craighead and 28 more | 5 hr |
| Jul 4, 10:38 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Arkansas, Clay, Craighead, Crittenden, Cross, Greene and 11 more | 2 hr |
| Jul 4, 11:35 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Crittenden, Mississippi | 4 hr |
| Jul 4, 1:25 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Benton, Crawford, Franklin, Johnson, Logan, Madison and 5 more | 2 hr |
| Jul 3, 9:41 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Clay, Cloud, Ellis, Gove, Graham, Jewell and 14 more | 64 min |
| Jul 3, 10:10 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Atchison, Brown, Chase, Clay, Cloud, Coffey and 20 more | 6 hr |
| 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, 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 |
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.