Alert archive / Kansas / Severe Thunderstorm Watches in 2004
Severe Thunderstorm Watch 735
The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at Aug 10, 2004, 11:30 PM CDT for 23 counties in Kansas; 4 counties in Oklahoma; 9 counties in Texas. It was in force for 5 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Aug 10, 2004, 11:30 PM CDT (04:30 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 11, 2004, 4:00 AM CDT
- In force
- 5 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
All 36 counties
Barton County, KS, Clark County, KS, Edwards County, KS, Finney County, KS, Ford County, KS, Grant County, KS, Gray County, KS, Hamilton County, KS, Haskell County, KS, Hodgeman County, KS, Kearny County, KS, Kiowa County, KS, Lane County, KS, Meade County, KS, Morton County, KS, Ness County, KS, Pawnee County, KS, Rush County, KS, Scott County, KS, Seward County, KS, Stanton County, KS, Stevens County, KS, Wichita County, KS, Beaver County, OK, Ellis County, OK, Harper County, OK, Texas County, OK, Hansford County, TX, Hartley County, TX, Hemphill County, TX, Hutchinson County, TX, Lipscomb County, TX, Moore County, TX, Ochiltree County, TX, Roberts County, TX, Sherman County, TX
The radar
The Dodge City radar (KDDC), 138 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 04:32 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
6 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 |
| Aug 11, 12:19 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AMA | Texas | 56 min |
| Aug 11, 1:18 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AMA | Beaver, Texas | 57 min |
| Aug 11, 1:59 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AMA | Ochiltree | 46 min |
| Aug 11, 2:05 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AMA | Hemphill, Lipscomb, Roberts | 55 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
Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 00:00Z, 4.5 hours before the alert went out and 143 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
- 913 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -28 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1839 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 40 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -18 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 112 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.8
SPC that day
Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 10, 9:15 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Barber, Comanche, Harper, Kiowa | 60 min |
| Aug 10, 9:30 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Barber, Comanche, Harper, Kiowa | 7 hr |
| Aug 10, 10:16 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Finney, Gove, Grant, Gray, Haskell, Kearny and 10 more | 59 min |
| Aug 11, 2:42 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Barber, Clark, Comanche, Harper, Kiowa | 2 hr |
| Aug 10, 11:43 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Blaine, Canadian, Creek, Custer, Dewey, Garfield and 10 more | 62 min |
| Aug 11, 1:05 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Atoka, Beckham, Blaine, Bryan, Caddo, Canadian and 34 more | 6 hr |
| Aug 11, 1:07 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Adair, Cherokee, Delaware, Haskell, LeFlore, McIntosh and 5 more | 113 min |
| Aug 11, 1:35 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Adair, Cherokee, Craig, Delaware, Haskell, LeFlore and 7 more | 5 hr |
| Aug 11, 5:23 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Adair, Atoka, Blaine, Bryan, Caddo, Canadian and 43 more | 97 min |
| Aug 11, 6:49 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Atoka, Bryan, Choctaw, Coal, Haskell, Johnston and 7 more | 116 min |
| Aug 11, 12:22 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Cherokee, Gregg, Harrison, Marion, Nacogdoches, Panola and 2 more | 2 hr |
| Aug 11, 1:16 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Anderson, Austin, Bandera, Bastrop, Bell, Bexar and 44 more | 2 hr |
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.