Alert archive / Missouri / Severe Thunderstorm Watches in 2004
Severe Thunderstorm Watch 591
The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at Jul 8, 2004, 1:30 PM CDT for 4 states. It was in force for 6 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 8, 2004, 1:30 PM CDT (18:30 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 8, 2004, 7:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 6 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
All 23 counties
Benton County, AR, Cherokee County, KS, Barry County, MO, Barton County, MO, Cedar County, MO, Dade County, MO, Greene County, MO, Hickory County, MO, Jasper County, MO, Lawrence County, MO, McDonald County, MO, Newton County, MO, Polk County, MO, Stone County, MO, Adair County, OK, Cherokee County, OK, Craig County, OK, Delaware County, OK, Mayes County, OK, Muskogee County, OK, Ottawa County, OK, Rogers County, OK, Wagoner County, OK
The radar
The Tulsa radar (KINX), 104 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:21 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
8 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 8, 1:47 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | Cedar, Vernon | 58 min |
| Jul 8, 2:06 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | Jasper | 54 min |
| Jul 8, 2:21 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Craig | 69 min |
| Jul 8, 2:25 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Ottawa | 65 min |
| Jul 8, 2:38 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | Dade, Lawrence | 67 min |
| Jul 8, 2:39 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | Newton | 66 min |
| Jul 8, 3:05 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Delaware, Mayes, Rogers | 115 min |
| Jul 8, 3:28 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Craig | 47 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 12:00Z, 6.5 hours before the alert went out and 80 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
- 1067 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -140 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1037 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 24 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 86 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 138 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 1.7
SPC that day
Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 8, 3:49 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Benton, Carroll, Madison, Washington | 86 min |
| Jul 8, 5:43 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Benton | 62 min |
| Jul 7, 7:45 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Barton, Ellis, Ellsworth, Graham, Jewell, Lincoln and 11 more | 5 hr |
| 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 |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Watches in Missouri, 2004Severe Thunderstorm Watches in Oklahoma, 2004Severe Thunderstorm Watches in Arkansas, 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.