Alert archive / Kansas / Severe Thunderstorm Watches in 2004
Severe Thunderstorm Watch 701
The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at Aug 3, 2004, 6:05 PM CDT for 27 counties in Kansas. It was in force for 5 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Aug 3, 2004, 6:05 PM CDT (23:05 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 3, 2004, 11:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 5 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
All 27 counties
Brown County, KS, Butler County, KS, Chase County, KS, Clay County, KS, Cowley County, KS, Dickinson County, KS, Geary County, KS, Harper County, KS, Harvey County, KS, Jackson County, KS, Kingman County, KS, Lyon County, KS, Marion County, KS, Marshall County, KS, McPherson County, KS, Morris County, KS, Nemaha County, KS, Ottawa County, KS, Pottawatomie County, KS, Reno County, KS, Riley County, KS, Saline County, KS, Sedgwick County, KS, Shawnee County, KS, Sumner County, KS, Wabaunsee County, KS, Washington County, KS
The radar
The Wichita radar (KICT), 62 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:05 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 3, 6:17 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | McPherson | 58 min |
| Aug 3, 7:07 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Reno | 68 min |
| Aug 3, 7:37 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Sedgwick | 53 min |
| Aug 3, 7:51 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Kingman | 54 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 12:00Z, 11.1 hours before the alert went out and 172 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
- 1062 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -356 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1659 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 12 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -54 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -30 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.3
SPC that day
Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 3, 3:59 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Barber, Barton, Clark, Comanche, Edwards, Ellsworth and 18 more | 2 hr |
| Aug 3, 6:08 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Atchison, Barber, Barton, Butler, Chase, Clark and 33 more | 97 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.