Alert archive / Texas / Severe Thunderstorm Watches in 2004
Severe Thunderstorm Watch 729
The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at Aug 10, 2004, 1:00 AM CDT for 13 counties in Kansas; 8 counties in Oklahoma; 15 counties in Texas. It was in force for 5 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Aug 10, 2004, 1:00 AM CDT (06:00 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 10, 2004, 6:00 AM CDT
- In force
- 5 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
All 36 counties
Barber County, KS, Clark County, KS, Comanche County, KS, Edwards County, KS, Ford County, KS, Gray County, KS, Haskell County, KS, Hodgeman County, KS, Kiowa County, KS, Meade County, KS, Pratt County, KS, Seward County, KS, Stevens County, KS, Alfalfa County, OK, Beaver County, OK, Ellis County, OK, Harper County, OK, Roger Mills County, OK, Texas County, OK, Woods County, OK, Woodward County, OK, Armstrong County, TX, Carson County, TX, Dallam County, TX, Donley County, TX, Gray County, TX, Hansford County, TX, Hemphill County, TX, Hutchinson County, TX, Lipscomb County, TX, Moore County, TX, Ochiltree County, TX, Potter County, TX, Roberts County, TX, Sherman County, TX, Wheeler County, TX
The radar
The Amarillo radar (KAMA), 160 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 06:01 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
1 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 10, 2:29 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AMA | Hansford | 61 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
Amarillo Airport, TX (KAMA), launched 00:00Z, 6.0 hours before the alert went out and 160 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
- 409 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -5 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 2592 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 18 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -22 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 25 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
SPC that day
Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 9, 7:51 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Finney, Gove, Grant, Gray, Greeley, Hamilton and 15 more | 54 min |
| Aug 9, 8:30 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Cheyenne, Clark, Decatur, Finney, Ford, Gove and 25 more | 6 hr |
| Aug 9, 10:29 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Finney, Greeley, Hamilton, Kearny, Logan, Scott and 4 more | 61 min |
| Aug 10, 3:08 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Barber, Clark, Comanche, Edwards, Ford, Gray and 5 more | 97 min |
| Aug 10, 1:37 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Decatur, Graham, Jewell, Mitchell, Norton, Osborne and 5 more | 113 min |
| Aug 10, 5:47 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Finney, Gove, Grant, Gray, Greeley, Hamilton and 12 more | 58 min |
| Aug 10, 5:55 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Clark, Finney, Ford, Grant, Gray, Greeley and 13 more | 6 hr |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Watches in Texas, 2004Severe Thunderstorm Watches in Kansas, 2004Severe Thunderstorm Watches in Oklahoma, 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.