Alert archive / Kansas / Severe Thunderstorm Watches in 2004
Severe Thunderstorm Watch 567
The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at Jul 5, 2004, 4:40 PM CDT for 23 counties in Kansas; 20 counties in Oklahoma. It was in force for 5 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 5, 2004, 4:40 PM CDT (21:40 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 5, 2004, 10:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 5 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
All 43 counties
Allen County, KS, Barber County, KS, Bourbon County, KS, Butler County, KS, Chautauqua County, KS, Cherokee County, KS, Cowley County, KS, Crawford County, KS, Elk County, KS, Greenwood County, KS, Harper County, KS, Harvey County, KS, Kingman County, KS, Labette County, KS, Montgomery County, KS, Neosho County, KS, Pratt County, KS, Reno County, KS, Sedgwick County, KS, Stafford County, KS, Sumner County, KS, Wilson County, KS, Woodson County, KS, Adair County, OK, Alfalfa County, OK, Cherokee County, OK, Craig County, OK, Delaware County, OK, Garfield County, OK, Grant County, OK, Kay County, OK, Major County, OK, Mayes County, OK, Noble County, OK, Nowata County, OK, Osage County, OK, Ottawa County, OK, Pawnee County, OK, Payne County, OK, Rogers County, OK, Tulsa County, OK, Wagoner County, OK, Washington County, OK
The radar
The Wichita radar (KICT), 51 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:43 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
10 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 5, 5:23 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Garfield, Kingfisher, Logan, Noble | 52 min |
| Jul 5, 6:15 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Garfield, Logan, Noble | 45 min |
| Jul 5, 6:58 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Garfield, Logan, Noble | 62 min |
| Jul 5, 7:11 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | OUN | Garfield, Logan, Noble | 4 hr |
| Jul 5, 7:56 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Garfield | 64 min |
| Jul 5, 8:25 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Grant | 65 min |
| Jul 5, 8:56 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Garfield | 49 min |
| Jul 5, 9:29 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Grant | 61 min |
| Jul 5, 9:41 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Garfield | 49 min |
| Jul 5, 9:51 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Alfalfa | 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
Lamont, OK (KLMN), launched 12:00Z, 9.7 hours before the alert went out and 82 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
- 1370 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -302 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 776 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 39 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 176 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 207 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 1.3
SPC that day
Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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, 3:25 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Allen, Anderson, Bourbon, Chautauqua, Cherokee, Coffey and 10 more | 6 hr |
| Jul 5, 4:45 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Johnson, Miami, Wyandotte | 2 hr |
| Jul 5, 6:02 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Bourbon, Cherokee, Crawford, Labette, Montgomery, Neosho | 88 min |
| 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, 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, 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.