Alert archive / Kansas / Severe Thunderstorm Watches in 2004
Severe Thunderstorm Watch 822
The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at Sep 14, 2004, 8:25 PM MDT for Cheyenne County, Kit Carson County, Yuma County, Colorado; 12 counties in Kansas; 4 counties in Nebraska. It was in force for 5 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Sep 14, 2004, 8:25 PM MDT (02:25 UTC)
- Expired
- Sep 15, 2004, 1:00 AM MDT
- In force
- 5 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
Counties Cheyenne County, CO, Kit Carson County, CO, Yuma County, CO, Cheyenne County, KS, Decatur County, KS, Gove County, KS, Graham County, KS, Logan County, KS, Norton County, KS, Rawlins County, KS, Sheridan County, KS, Sherman County, KS, Thomas County, KS, Trego County, KS, Wallace County, KS, Dundy County, NE, Furnas County, NE, Hitchcock County, NE, Red Willow County, NE
The radar
The Goodland radar (KGLD), 33 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 02:25 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 14, 8:41 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Furnas | 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
Denver, CO (KDNR), launched 00:00Z, 2.4 hours before the alert went out and 125 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
- -87 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 2082 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 56 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 44 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 341 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 16.5
SPC that day
Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 14, 7:56 PM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Cheyenne, Crowley, El Paso, Kiowa, Kit Carson, Lincoln | 2 hr |
| Sep 14, 6:35 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Decatur, Jewell, Norton, Phillips, Rawlins, Republic and 1 more | 6 hr |
| Sep 15, 1:34 PM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Allen, Bourbon, Chautauqua, Cherokee, Crawford, Labette and 5 more | 86 min |
| Sep 14, 6:17 PM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Burt, Butler, Cass, Colfax, Cuming, Dakota and 13 more | 118 min |
| Sep 15, 3:00 AM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Cass, Johnson, Nemaha, Otoe | 3 hr |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Watches in Kansas, 2004Severe Thunderstorm Watches in Nebraska, 2004Severe Thunderstorm Watches in Colorado, 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.