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Severe Thunderstorm Watch 569

July 5, 20044 states

The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at Jul 5, 2004, 4:45 PM MDT for 4 states. It was in force for 6 hr.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued: Jul 5, 2004, 4:45 PM MDT (22:45 UTC)
Expired: Jul 5, 2004, 11:00 PM MDT
In force: 6 hr
Issued by: the Storm Prediction Center

All 44 counties

Kiowa County, CO, Prowers County, CO, Clark County, KS, Comanche County, KS, Edwards County, KS, Finney County, KS, Ford County, KS, Grant County, KS, Gray County, KS, Greeley County, KS, Hamilton County, KS, Haskell County, KS, Hodgeman County, KS, Kearny County, KS, Kiowa County, KS, Lane County, KS, Meade County, KS, Morton County, KS, Ness County, KS, Pawnee County, KS, Rush County, KS, Scott County, KS, Seward County, KS, Stanton County, KS, Stevens County, KS, Wichita County, KS, Beaver County, OK, Blaine County, OK, Custer County, OK, Dewey County, OK, Ellis County, OK, Harper County, OK, Major County, OK, Roger Mills County, OK, Texas County, OK, Woods County, OK, Woodward County, OK, Hansford County, TX, Hemphill County, TX, Hutchinson County, TX, Lipscomb County, TX, Ochiltree County, TX, Roberts County, TX, Sherman County, TX

The radar

The Dodge City radar (KDDC), 42 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:50 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

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jul 5, 8:01 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Greeley	59 min
Jul 5, 8:03 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Wichita	57 min
Jul 5, 8:24 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	Prowers	66 min
Jul 5, 8:39 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Hamilton	66 min
Jul 5, 8:56 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Woods	64 min
Jul 5, 9:01 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Kearny	69 min
Jul 5, 9:04 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Finney	86 min
Jul 5, 9:07 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Scott	43 min
Jul 5, 9:27 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Stanton	63 min
Jul 5, 9:39 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Grant	66 min
Jul 5, 9:47 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Hodgeman	58 min
Jul 5, 9:53 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Haskell	67 min
Jul 5, 9:56 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Woods	64 min
Jul 5, 10:19 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Gray, Meade, Seward	91 min
Jul 5, 10:27 PM MDT	Flash Flood Warning	OUN	Woods	3 hr
Jul 5, 10:44 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Ford	46 min
Jul 5, 10:59 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Woods	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

Lamont, OK (KLMN), launched 12:00Z, 10.8 hours before the alert went out and 262 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 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

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SPC that day

Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jul 5, 11:40 AM MDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Adams, Arapahoe, Denver, Logan, Morgan, Phillips and 4 more	2 hr
Jul 5, 1:20 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	Cheyenne, Kit Carson, Logan, Phillips, Sedgwick, Yuma	6 hr
Jul 5, 3:36 PM MDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Baca, Kiowa, Prowers	54 min
Jul 5, 4:52 PM MDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Cheyenne, Kit Carson, Logan, Phillips, Sedgwick, Washington and 1 more	83 min
Jul 4, 6:02 PM MDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Norton, Phillips	58 min
Jul 4, 6:12 PM MDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Barber, Barton, Clark, Comanche, Edwards, Ellis and 15 more	2 hr
Jul 4, 6:25 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	Cloud, Graham, Jewell, Mitchell, Norton, Osborne and 5 more	7 hr
Jul 4, 8:21 PM MDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Butler, Chase, Cowley, Dickinson, Elk, Ellsworth and 11 more	54 min
Jul 4, 8:40 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	Allen, Anderson, Barber, Barton, Butler, Chase and 44 more	6 hr
Jul 4, 9:45 PM MDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Cloud, Jewell, Mitchell, Phillips, Republic, Smith	60 min
Jul 4, 10:05 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	Brown, Clay, Jackson, Marshall, Nemaha, Pottawatomie and 3 more	5 hr
Jul 4, 10:20 PM MDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Barber, Barton, Butler, Chase, Clark, Comanche and 30 more	55 min
Jul 5, 12:16 AM MDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Atchison, Brown, Doniphan, Jackson, Marshall, Nemaha	89 min
Jul 5, 1:00 AM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	Atchison, Brown, Doniphan, Douglas, Jackson, Jefferson and 5 more	5 hr
Jul 5, 1:06 AM MDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Allen, Anderson, Barber, Butler, Chase, Chautauqua and 20 more	114 min
Jul 5, 2:25 AM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	Allen, Anderson, Bourbon, Chautauqua, Cherokee, Coffey and 10 more	6 hr
Jul 5, 3:45 AM MDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Johnson, Miami, Wyandotte	2 hr
Jul 5, 5:02 AM MDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Bourbon, Cherokee, Crawford, Labette, Montgomery, Neosho	88 min
Jul 5, 2:43 PM MDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Allen, Anderson, Bourbon, Cherokee, Crawford, Labette and 5 more	92 min
Jul 5, 3:21 PM MDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Allen, Barber, Bourbon, Butler, Chautauqua, Cherokee and 20 more	114 min
Jul 5, 3:40 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	Allen, Barber, Bourbon, Butler, Chautauqua, Cherokee and 17 more	5 hr
Jul 5, 1:22 AM MDT	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.