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Severe Thunderstorm Watch 595

July 9, 20044 states

The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at Jul 9, 2004, 12:45 AM CDT for 4 states. It was in force for 4 hr.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued: Jul 9, 2004, 12:45 AM CDT (05:45 UTC)
Expired: Jul 9, 2004, 5:00 AM CDT
In force: 4 hr
Issued by: the Storm Prediction Center

All 59 counties

Fremont County, IA, Mills County, IA, Montgomery County, IA, Page County, IA, Barton County, KS, Brown County, KS, Chase County, KS, Clay County, KS, Cloud County, KS, Dickinson County, KS, Ellsworth County, KS, Geary County, KS, Harvey County, KS, Jackson County, KS, Jewell County, KS, Lincoln County, KS, Lyon County, KS, Marion County, KS, Marshall County, KS, McPherson County, KS, Mitchell County, KS, Morris County, KS, Nemaha County, KS, Osborne County, KS, Ottawa County, KS, Pawnee County, KS, Pottawatomie County, KS, Republic County, KS, Rice County, KS, Riley County, KS, Rush County, KS, Russell County, KS, Saline County, KS, Smith County, KS, Stafford County, KS, Wabaunsee County, KS, Washington County, KS, Atchison County, MO, Adams County, NE, Cass County, NE, Clay County, NE, Fillmore County, NE, Gage County, NE, Hamilton County, NE, Jefferson County, NE, Johnson County, NE, Lancaster County, NE, Merrick County, NE, Nemaha County, NE, Nuckolls County, NE, Otoe County, NE, Pawnee County, NE, Richardson County, NE, Saline County, NE, Sarpy County, NE, Seward County, NE, Thayer County, NE, Webster County, NE, York County, NE

The radar

The Grand Island radar (KUEX), 131 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 05:46 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

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jul 9, 12:54 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	Fillmore, Thayer	51 min
Jul 9, 12:56 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	Mitchell, Osborne, Rooks	64 min
Jul 9, 1:07 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	Polk, York	68 min
Jul 9, 1:09 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TOP	Cloud, Republic, Washington	66 min
Jul 9, 1:14 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	Smith	46 min
Jul 9, 1:18 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	GID	Merrick, Nance	6 hr
Jul 9, 1:28 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	Jewell	62 min
Jul 9, 1:28 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Lincoln, Russell	92 min
Jul 9, 1:28 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	Hamilton, Merrick	32 min
Jul 9, 1:29 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OAX	Butler, Saline, Seward	61 min
Jul 9, 1:32 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	Jewell	58 min
Jul 9, 1:35 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	GID	Jewell, Mitchell, Osborne	6 hr
Jul 9, 2:00 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	Mitchell, Osborne	45 min
Jul 9, 2:14 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TOP	Clay, Cloud, Ottawa, Republic, Washington	61 min
Jul 9, 2:24 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Ellsworth, Saline	96 min
Jul 9, 2:51 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TOP	Clay, Dickinson, Marshall, Ottawa, Riley	54 min
Jul 9, 2:56 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Lincoln	64 min
Jul 9, 3:04 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	TOP	Clay, Cloud, Ottawa, Republic, Washington	116 min
Jul 9, 3:17 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TOP	Dickinson, Geary, Pottawatomie, Riley	58 min
Jul 9, 3:50 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TOP	Morris, Shawnee, Wabaunsee	55 min
Jul 9, 3:55 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	TOP	Clay, Dickinson, Geary, Ottawa, Pottawatomie, Riley	110 min
Jul 9, 4:45 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TOP	Lyon, Morris	60 min
Jul 9, 4:50 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	TOP	Geary, Jackson, Morris, Shawnee, Wabaunsee	115 min
Jul 9, 4:57 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	TOP	Clay, Cloud, Ottawa, Republic, Washington	2 hr

Discussions around it

SPC mesoscale discussions over the same counties from four hours before the watch to its end.

The nearest sounding before it

Topeka, KS (KTOP), launched 00:00Z, 5.8 hours before the alert went out and 183 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: 1519 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -301 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1532 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 14 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 71 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 167 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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SPC that day

Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jul 9, 4:26 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Des Moines, Lee, Louisa, Muscatine	94 min
Jul 8, 9:05 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Clark, Comanche, Meade, Seward	115 min
Jul 8, 9:45 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	Decatur, Norton, Phillips, Smith	6 hr
Jul 8, 10:58 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Decatur, Norton, Phillips, Rawlins, Smith	92 min
Jul 9, 12:19 AM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Clay, Cloud, Dickinson, Ellis, Ellsworth, Geary and 14 more	56 min
Jul 9, 2:46 AM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Barton, Chase, Clay, Cloud, Dickinson, Ellis and 27 more	89 min
Jul 8, 8:05 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	Blaine, Brown, Chase, Custer, Dawson, Frontier and 13 more	6 hr
Jul 9, 1:03 AM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Chase, Dundy, Frontier, Hayes, Hitchcock, Red Willow	57 min
Jul 9, 2:02 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Banner, Kimball, Scotts Bluff	118 min
Jul 9, 6:59 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Arthur, Banner, Box Butte, Cheyenne, Dawes, Deuel and 7 more	106 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.