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Severe Thunderstorm Watch 341

May 28, 200519 counties in Kansas

The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at May 28, 2005, 5:00 PM CDT for 19 counties in Kansas. It was in force for 5 hr.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued
May 28, 2005, 5:00 PM CDT (22:00 UTC)
Expired
May 28, 2005, 10:00 PM CDT
In force
5 hr
Issued by
the Storm Prediction Center

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

The radar

The Dodge City radar (KDDC), 100 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:03 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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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 12:00Z, 10.0 hours before the alert went out and 302 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Denver, CO at 12:00Z on 2005-05-28Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Denver, CO at 12:00Z on 2005-05-28The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 73 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
1994 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
41 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
73 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
49 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.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
May 28, 12:34 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCCheyenne, Clay, Cloud, Decatur, Dickinson, Geary and 19 more116 min
May 28, 2:10 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPCCheyenne7 hr
May 28, 2:35 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPCClay, Cloud, Decatur, Dickinson, Ellis, Ellsworth and 20 more7 hr
May 28, 4:28 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCFinney, Gove, Grant, Greeley, Hamilton, Haskell and 13 more92 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.