Alert archive / Missouri / Severe Thunderstorm Watches in 2004
Severe Thunderstorm Watch 626
The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at Jul 13, 2004, 7:00 PM CDT for Johnson County, Miami County, Wyandotte County, Kansas; 34 counties in Missouri. It was in force for 5 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 13, 2004, 7:00 PM CDT (00:00 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 14, 2004, 12:00 AM CDT
- In force
- 5 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
All 37 counties
Johnson County, KS, Miami County, KS, Wyandotte County, KS, Adair County, MO, Andrew County, MO, Boone County, MO, Buchanan County, MO, Caldwell County, MO, Carroll County, MO, Cass County, MO, Chariton County, MO, Clay County, MO, Clinton County, MO, Cole County, MO, Cooper County, MO, Daviess County, MO, DeKalb County, MO, Gentry County, MO, Grundy County, MO, Howard County, MO, Jackson County, MO, Johnson County, MO, Knox County, MO, Lafayette County, MO, Linn County, MO, Livingston County, MO, Macon County, MO, Moniteau County, MO, Monroe County, MO, Morgan County, MO, Pettis County, MO, Platte County, MO, Randolph County, MO, Ray County, MO, Saline County, MO, Shelby County, MO, Sullivan County, MO
The radar
The Pleasant Hill radar (KEAX), 91 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:01 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
4 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 13, 7:02 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | DeKalb | 58 min |
| Jul 13, 7:10 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Caldwell, Clinton | 65 min |
| Jul 13, 7:44 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Clay, Ray | 61 min |
| Jul 13, 7:49 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Carroll, Chariton | 56 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
Topeka, KS (KTOP), launched 00:00Z, 0.0 hours before the alert went out and 170 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
- 3643 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -71 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 2081 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 17 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 6 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 73 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 13, 11:13 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Mississippi | 2 hr |
| Jul 14, 1:45 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Dunklin, Pemiscot | 5 hr |
| Jul 14, 3:44 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Dunklin, Pemiscot | 91 min |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Watches in Missouri, 2004Severe 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.