Alert archive / Kansas / Severe Thunderstorm Watches in 2004
Severe Thunderstorm Watch 589
The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at Jul 7, 2004, 7:45 PM CDT for 17 counties in Kansas. It was in force for 5 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 7, 2004, 7:45 PM CDT (00:45 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 8, 2004, 1:00 AM CDT
- In force
- 5 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
Counties Barton County, KS, Ellis County, KS, Ellsworth County, KS, Graham County, KS, Jewell County, KS, Lincoln County, KS, Mitchell County, KS, Ness County, KS, Norton County, KS, Osborne County, KS, Phillips County, KS, Rice County, KS, Rooks County, KS, Rush County, KS, Russell County, KS, Smith County, KS, Trego County, KS
The radar
The Grand Island radar (KUEX), 118 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:46 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
12 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 7, 7:52 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ICT | Russell | 53 min |
| Jul 7, 8:00 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | GLD | Graham | 30 min |
| Jul 7, 8:32 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Trego | 73 min |
| Jul 7, 8:36 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ICT | Barton, Russell | 54 min |
| Jul 7, 8:39 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DDC | Ellis | 51 min |
| Jul 7, 8:47 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Rush | 73 min |
| Jul 7, 8:58 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | ICT | Russell | 6 hr |
| Jul 7, 9:23 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ICT | Barton | 52 min |
| Jul 7, 9:30 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Ellis | 30 min |
| Jul 7, 9:59 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Rush | 46 min |
| Jul 7, 10:12 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Barton | 48 min |
| Jul 7, 10:20 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Rice | 55 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, 0.8 hours before the alert went out and 197 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
- 2020 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -61 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 2026 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 30 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 118 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 270 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 9.6
SPC that day
Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 7, 9:23 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Barber, Barton, Clark, Comanche, Edwards, Ellis and 18 more | 97 min |
| Jul 8, 7:28 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Allen, Anderson, Bourbon, Butler, Chase, Chautauqua and 26 more | 3 hr |
| Jul 8, 10:09 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Allen, Bourbon, Chautauqua, Cherokee, Cowley, Crawford and 6 more | 2 hr |
| Jul 8, 1:30 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Cherokee | 6 hr |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Watches in Kansas, 2004Every severe thunderstorm watch in 2004
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.