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Severe Thunderstorm Watch 92

April 19, 20044 states

The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at Apr 19, 2004, 8:00 PM MDT for 4 states. It was in force for 5 hr.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued: Apr 19, 2004, 8:00 PM MDT (02:00 UTC)
Expired: Apr 20, 2004, 1:00 AM MDT
In force: 5 hr
Issued by: the Storm Prediction Center

All 63 counties

Baca County, CO, Barber County, KS, Barton County, KS, Clark County, KS, Comanche County, KS, Edwards County, KS, Ellis County, KS, Ellsworth County, KS, Finney County, KS, Ford County, KS, Grant County, KS, Gray County, KS, Hamilton County, KS, Harper County, KS, Haskell County, KS, Hodgeman County, KS, Kearny County, KS, Kingman County, KS, Kiowa County, KS, Lane County, KS, Lincoln County, KS, Meade County, KS, Mitchell County, KS, Morton County, KS, Ness County, KS, Pawnee County, KS, Pratt County, KS, Reno County, KS, Rice County, KS, Rush County, KS, Russell County, KS, Seward County, KS, Stafford County, KS, Stanton County, KS, Stevens County, KS, Alfalfa County, OK, Beaver County, OK, Cimarron County, OK, Dewey County, OK, Ellis County, OK, Harper County, OK, Major County, OK, Roger Mills County, OK, Texas County, OK, Woods County, OK, Woodward County, OK, Carson County, TX, Dallam County, TX, Deaf Smith County, TX, Gray County, TX, Hansford County, TX, Hartley County, TX, Hemphill County, TX, Hutchinson County, TX, Lipscomb County, TX, Moore County, TX, Ochiltree County, TX, Oldham County, TX, Parmer County, TX, Potter County, TX, Randall County, TX, Roberts County, TX, Sherman County, TX

The radar

The Dodge City radar (KDDC), 113 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 02:00 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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Warnings issued inside it

25 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Apr 19, 8:08 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AMA	Beaver	37 min
Apr 19, 8:09 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AMA	Sherman	51 min
Apr 19, 8:45 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AMA	Beaver	60 min
Apr 19, 9:06 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AMA	Sherman	24 min
Apr 19, 9:26 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Seward, Stevens	64 min
Apr 19, 9:35 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Ellis, Harper	40 min
Apr 19, 9:38 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AMA	Beaver	52 min
Apr 19, 10:12 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Harper	48 min
Apr 19, 10:26 PM MDT	Tornado Warning	OUN	Harper	34 min
Apr 19, 10:44 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Seward	46 min
Apr 19, 10:58 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Harper, Woods, Woodward	47 min
Apr 19, 11:18 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	Baca	57 min
Apr 19, 11:20 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Meade	55 min
Apr 19, 11:32 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Barber, Comanche	43 min
Apr 19, 11:39 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Hamilton, Stanton	51 min
Apr 19, 11:40 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Woods	50 min
Apr 19, 11:42 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Harper	38 min
Apr 19, 11:48 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Clark	57 min
Apr 20, 12:06 AM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Kearny	54 min
Apr 20, 12:16 AM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Meade	44 min
Apr 20, 12:18 AM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Meade	42 min
Apr 20, 12:29 AM MDT	Flash Flood Warning	DDC	Meade, Seward	3 hr
Apr 20, 12:39 AM MDT	Flash Flood Warning	AMA	Beaver	3 hr
Apr 20, 12:44 AM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Clark	61 min
Apr 20, 12:51 AM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Meade	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

Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 00:00Z, 2.0 hours before the alert went out and 119 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.

Skew-T log-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.

Mixed-layer CAPE: 51 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -171 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1180 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 53 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 46 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 242 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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SPC that day

Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Apr 19, 10:04 PM MDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Baca	86 min
Apr 20, 11:47 AM MDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Chautauqua, Cherokee, Cowley, Elk, Labette, Montgomery and 4 more	88 min
Apr 20, 1:05 PM MDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	Allen, Bourbon, Butler, Chautauqua, Cherokee, Cowley and 8 more	6 hr
Apr 20, 4:16 PM MDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Allen, Bourbon, Butler, Chautauqua, Cherokee, Cowley and 8 more	119 min
Apr 19, 6:53 PM MDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Beaver, Cimarron, Texas	67 min
Apr 20, 4:46 PM MDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Atoka, Bryan, Carter, Coal, Garvin, Haskell and 13 more	89 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.