Alert archive / Kansas / Severe Thunderstorm Watches in 2005
Severe Thunderstorm Watch 224
The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at May 7, 2005, 3:20 PM CDT for 30 counties in Kansas. It was in force for 6 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- May 7, 2005, 3:20 PM CDT (20:20 UTC)
- Expired
- May 7, 2005, 9:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 6 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
All 30 counties
Barber County, KS, Barton County, KS, Clark County, KS, Comanche County, KS, Edwards County, KS, Ellis County, KS, Ellsworth County, KS, Ford County, KS, Graham County, KS, Hodgeman County, KS, Jewell County, KS, Kingman County, KS, Kiowa County, KS, Lincoln County, KS, Meade County, KS, Mitchell County, KS, Ness County, KS, Norton County, KS, Osborne County, KS, Pawnee County, KS, Phillips County, KS, Pratt County, KS, Reno County, KS, Rice County, KS, Rooks County, KS, Rush County, KS, Russell County, KS, Smith County, KS, Stafford County, KS, Trego County, KS
The radar
The Dodge City radar (KDDC), 70 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:22 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 7, 4:54 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Phillips | 47 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
N. Platte/Lee Bi, NE (KLBF), launched 12:00Z, 8.3 hours before the alert went out and 338 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
- 36 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -225 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1695 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 39 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -119 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -147 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 6, 9:11 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Finney, Grant, Gray, Hamilton, Haskell, Kearny and 5 more | 64 min |
| May 7, 1:15 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Barton, Clark, Comanche, Decatur, Edwards, Ellis and 20 more | 3 hr |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Watches in Kansas, 2005Every severe thunderstorm watch in 2005
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.