Alert archive / Kansas / Severe Thunderstorm Watches in 2004
Severe Thunderstorm Watch 732
The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at Aug 10, 2004, 5:55 PM CDT for 19 counties in Kansas; Beaver County, Texas County, Oklahoma; 18 counties in Texas. It was in force for 6 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Aug 10, 2004, 5:55 PM CDT (22:55 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 11, 2004, 12:00 AM CDT
- In force
- 6 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
All 39 counties
Clark County, KS, Finney County, KS, Ford County, KS, Grant County, KS, Gray County, KS, Greeley County, KS, Hamilton County, KS, Haskell County, KS, Hodgeman County, KS, Kearny County, KS, Lane County, KS, Meade County, KS, Morton County, KS, Ness County, KS, Scott County, KS, Seward County, KS, Stanton County, KS, Stevens County, KS, Wichita County, KS, Beaver County, OK, Texas County, OK, Armstrong County, TX, Carson County, TX, Collingsworth County, TX, Deaf Smith 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, Oldham County, TX, Potter County, TX, Randall County, TX, Roberts County, TX, Sherman County, TX, Wheeler County, TX
The radar
The Amarillo radar (KAMA), 130 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:55 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
10 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 10, 6:28 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Greeley | 47 min |
| Aug 10, 8:31 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AMA | Oldham | 59 min |
| Aug 10, 10:13 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Stanton | 47 min |
| Aug 10, 10:29 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Grant | 61 min |
| Aug 10, 10:46 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AMA | Hemphill | 59 min |
| Aug 10, 10:57 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Stanton | 48 min |
| Aug 10, 11:13 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Morton | 77 min |
| Aug 10, 11:19 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Hamilton | 56 min |
| Aug 10, 11:36 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DDC | Stanton | 39 min |
| Aug 10, 11:56 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Stevens | 64 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 12:00Z, 10.9 hours before the alert went out and 130 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
- 47 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -237 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 2110 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 39 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 120 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 296 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, 1:00 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Barber, Clark, Comanche, Edwards, Ford, Gray and 7 more | 5 hr |
| 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 |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Watches in Kansas, 2004Severe Thunderstorm Watches in Texas, 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.