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Severe Thunderstorm Watch 573

July 5, 20044 states

The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at Jul 5, 2004, 10:45 PM MDT for 4 states. It was in force for 4 hr.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued: Jul 5, 2004, 10:45 PM MDT (04:45 UTC)
Expired: Jul 6, 2004, 3:00 AM MDT
In force: 4 hr
Issued by: the Storm Prediction Center

All 42 counties

Baca County, CO, Barber County, KS, Clark County, KS, Comanche County, KS, Grant County, KS, Harper County, KS, Haskell County, KS, Kiowa County, KS, Meade County, KS, Morton County, KS, Pratt County, KS, Seward County, KS, Stanton County, KS, Stevens County, KS, Alfalfa County, OK, Beaver County, OK, Blaine County, OK, Canadian County, OK, Custer County, OK, Dewey County, OK, Ellis County, OK, Garfield County, OK, Grant County, OK, Harper County, OK, Kingfisher County, OK, Lincoln County, OK, Logan County, OK, Major County, OK, Noble County, OK, Okfuskee County, OK, Oklahoma County, OK, Payne County, OK, Roger Mills County, OK, Texas County, OK, Woods County, OK, Woodward County, OK, Gray County, TX, Hansford County, TX, Hemphill County, TX, Lipscomb County, TX, Ochiltree County, TX, Roberts County, TX

The radar

The Vance AFB radar (KVNX), 109 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 04:46 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.

Warnings issued inside it

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jul 5, 10:59 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Woods	61 min
Jul 5, 11:14 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Harper	46 min
Jul 5, 11:19 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AMA	Beaver	56 min
Jul 5, 11:25 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Clark	50 min
Jul 5, 11:29 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Morton	61 min
Jul 5, 11:30 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Comanche	45 min
Jul 5, 11:38 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Kiowa	52 min
Jul 5, 11:45 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AMA	Texas	60 min
Jul 5, 11:49 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Pratt	86 min
Jul 5, 11:53 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Ellis, Woods, Woodward	52 min
Jul 5, 11:56 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Harper	34 min
Jul 6, 12:04 AM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Barber	91 min
Jul 6, 12:12 AM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Comanche	33 min
Jul 6, 12:24 AM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Harper	36 min
Jul 6, 12:41 AM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Alfalfa, Dewey, Ellis, Major, Woods, Woodward	64 min
Jul 6, 12:46 AM MDT	Flash Flood Warning	OUN	Alfalfa, Woods	3 hr
Jul 6, 1:12 AM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Harper	63 min
Jul 6, 1:24 AM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Garfield, Grant	81 min
Jul 6, 1:36 AM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Blaine, Custer, Dewey, Kingfisher, Major	39 min
Jul 6, 2:15 AM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Blaine, Kingfisher, Logan	45 min
Jul 6, 2:25 AM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Canadian	50 min
Jul 6, 2:28 AM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Kay, Noble	47 min
Jul 6, 2:57 AM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Canadian, Kingfisher, Logan, Oklahoma, Payne	48 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, 4.8 hours before the alert went out and 124 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: 2977 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -11 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1588 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 29 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 28 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 128 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.4
Supercell composite: 5.1

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SPC that day

Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jul 5, 7:50 PM MDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Prowers	55 min
Jul 6, 12:16 AM MDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Baca	119 min
Jul 6, 2:31 PM MDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Las Animas	2 hr
Jul 5, 6:10 PM MDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Clay, Cloud, Dickinson, Geary, Graham, Jewell and 15 more	65 min
Jul 5, 6:40 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	Cloud, Decatur, Graham, Jewell, Lincoln, Mitchell and 9 more	6 hr
Jul 5, 6:54 PM MDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Allen, Barber, Bourbon, Butler, Chautauqua, Cherokee and 17 more	96 min
Jul 5, 9:00 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	Atchison, Barber, Brown, Butler, Chase, Chautauqua and 39 more	6 hr
Jul 5, 10:31 PM MDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Barber, Barton, Clark, Clay, Cloud, Comanche and 28 more	59 min
Jul 6, 1:45 AM MDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Allen, Anderson, Atchison, Bourbon, Coffey, Douglas and 9 more	2 hr
Jul 6, 2:10 AM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	Allen, Anderson, Atchison, Bourbon, Butler, Chase and 27 more	5 hr
Jul 6, 4:18 AM MDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Allen, Anderson, Atchison, Bourbon, Butler, Chase and 26 more	117 min
Jul 6, 2:50 AM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	Adair, Atoka, Caddo, Canadian, Carter, Cherokee and 49 more	5 hr
Jul 6, 2:55 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	Bailey, Carson, Castro, Cochran, Dallam, Deaf Smith and 14 more	6 hr

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.