Alert archive / Missouri / Severe Thunderstorm Watches in 2004
Severe Thunderstorm Watch 559
The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at Jul 5, 2004, 3:25 AM CDT for 4 states. It was in force for 6 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 5, 2004, 3:25 AM CDT (08:25 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 5, 2004, 9:00 AM CDT
- In force
- 6 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
All 65 counties
Benton County, AR, Boone County, AR, Carroll County, AR, Marion County, AR, Allen County, KS, Anderson County, KS, Bourbon County, KS, Chautauqua County, KS, Cherokee County, KS, Coffey County, KS, Cowley County, KS, Crawford County, KS, Elk County, KS, Greenwood County, KS, Labette County, KS, Linn County, KS, Montgomery County, KS, Neosho County, KS, Wilson County, KS, Woodson County, KS, Barry County, MO, Barton County, MO, Bates County, MO, Benton County, MO, Camden County, MO, Cedar County, MO, Christian County, MO, Crawford County, MO, Dade County, MO, Dallas County, MO, Dent County, MO, Douglas County, MO, Greene County, MO, Hickory County, MO, Jasper County, MO, Laclede County, MO, Lawrence County, MO, Maries County, MO, McDonald County, MO, Miller County, MO, Newton County, MO, Ozark County, MO, Phelps County, MO, Polk County, MO, Pulaski County, MO, St. Clair County, MO, Stone County, MO, Taney County, MO, Texas County, MO, Vernon County, MO, Washington County, MO, Webster County, MO, Wright County, MO, Craig County, OK, Delaware County, OK, Garfield County, OK, Kay County, OK, Mayes County, OK, Noble County, OK, Nowata County, OK, Osage County, OK, Ottawa County, OK, Pawnee County, OK, Rogers County, OK, Washington County, OK
The radar
The Tulsa radar (KINX), 103 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 08:28 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
16 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 5, 3:25 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Elk | 80 min |
| Jul 5, 3:47 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Chautauqua | 73 min |
| Jul 5, 3:57 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Wilson, Woodson | 78 min |
| Jul 5, 3:58 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Kay, Noble | 47 min |
| Jul 5, 4:03 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Anderson, Coffey | 57 min |
| Jul 5, 4:24 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Osage, Washington | 66 min |
| Jul 5, 4:29 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Allen, Neosho | 76 min |
| Jul 5, 4:46 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | Bourbon, Crawford | 74 min |
| Jul 5, 4:52 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Labette, Montgomery | 68 min |
| Jul 5, 5:17 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | Vernon | 73 min |
| Jul 5, 5:39 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | Barton | 66 min |
| Jul 5, 5:51 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | Cedar, St. Clair | 69 min |
| Jul 5, 6:24 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | Benton, Hickory | 66 min |
| Jul 5, 7:00 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | Camden | 60 min |
| Jul 5, 7:15 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | Miller | 60 min |
| Jul 5, 7:44 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | Maries | 61 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, 8.4 hours before the alert went out and 122 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
- 2132 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -49 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1232 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 20 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 46 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 164 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 2.0
SPC that day
Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 5, 6:02 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Benton, Boone, Carroll | 88 min |
| Jul 4, 7:02 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Norton, Phillips | 58 min |
| Jul 4, 7:12 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Barber, Barton, Clark, Comanche, Edwards, Ellis and 15 more | 2 hr |
| Jul 4, 7:25 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Cloud, Graham, Jewell, Mitchell, Norton, Osborne and 5 more | 7 hr |
| Jul 4, 9:21 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Butler, Chase, Cowley, Dickinson, Elk, Ellsworth and 11 more | 54 min |
| Jul 4, 9:40 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Allen, Anderson, Barber, Barton, Butler, Chase and 44 more | 6 hr |
| Jul 4, 10:45 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Cloud, Jewell, Mitchell, Phillips, Republic, Smith | 60 min |
| Jul 4, 11:05 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Brown, Clay, Jackson, Marshall, Nemaha, Pottawatomie and 3 more | 5 hr |
| Jul 4, 11:20 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Barber, Barton, Butler, Chase, Clark, Comanche and 30 more | 55 min |
| Jul 5, 1:16 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Atchison, Brown, Doniphan, Jackson, Marshall, Nemaha | 89 min |
| Jul 5, 2:00 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Atchison, Brown, Doniphan, Douglas, Jackson, Jefferson and 5 more | 5 hr |
| Jul 5, 2:06 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Allen, Anderson, Barber, Butler, Chase, Chautauqua and 20 more | 114 min |
| Jul 5, 4:45 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Johnson, Miami, Wyandotte | 2 hr |
| Jul 5, 12:40 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Cheyenne, Rawlins, Sherman, Thomas | 2 hr |
| Jul 5, 2:20 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Cheyenne, Decatur, Gove, Logan, Rawlins, Sheridan and 3 more | 6 hr |
| Jul 5, 3:43 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Allen, Anderson, Bourbon, Cherokee, Crawford, Labette and 5 more | 92 min |
| Jul 5, 4:21 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Allen, Barber, Bourbon, Butler, Chautauqua, Cherokee and 20 more | 114 min |
| Jul 5, 4:36 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Clark, Finney, Ford, Grant, Gray, Hamilton and 7 more | 54 min |
| Jul 5, 4:40 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Allen, Barber, Bourbon, Butler, Chautauqua, Cherokee and 17 more | 5 hr |
| Jul 5, 5:45 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Clark, Comanche, Edwards, Finney, Ford, Grant and 18 more | 6 hr |
| Jul 5, 5:52 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Cheyenne, Decatur, Graham, Logan, Norton, Rawlins and 4 more | 83 min |
| Jul 5, 6:55 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Audrain, Benton, Boone, Callaway, Camden, Cole and 19 more | 4 hr |
| Jul 5, 9:12 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Franklin, Jefferson, Lincoln, Pike, Saint Charles, Saint Louis and 2 more | 63 min |
| Jul 5, 3:00 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Adair, Clark, Knox, Lewis, Macon, Marion and 6 more | 60 min |
| Jul 5, 4:00 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Audrain, Barton, Bates, Benton, Boone, Callaway and 46 more | 6 hr |
| Jul 5, 2:22 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Beckham, Custer, Dewey, Ellis, Greer, Harmon and 5 more | 113 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.