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Severe Thunderstorm Watch 576

July 1, 20054 states

The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at Jul 1, 2005, 6:15 PM MDT for 4 states. It was in force for 7 hr.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued
Jul 1, 2005, 6:15 PM MDT (00:15 UTC)
Expired
Jul 2, 2005, 1:00 AM MDT
In force
7 hr
Issued by
the Storm Prediction Center
All 28 counties

Baca County, CO, Bent County, CO, Crowley County, CO, Kiowa County, CO, Prowers County, CO, Grant County, KS, Greeley County, KS, Hamilton County, KS, Kearny County, KS, Morton County, KS, Seward County, KS, Stanton County, KS, Stevens County, KS, Cimarron County, OK, Texas County, OK, Carson County, TX, Dallam County, TX, Gray County, TX, Hansford County, TX, Hartley County, TX, Hemphill County, TX, Hutchinson County, TX, Moore County, TX, Ochiltree County, TX, Potter County, TX, Roberts County, TX, Sherman County, TX, Wheeler County, TX

The radar

The Dodge City radar (KDDC), 175 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:16 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.

Warnings issued inside it

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jul 1, 6:18 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningAMAHansford57 min
Jul 1, 6:56 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPUBBent80 min
Jul 1, 7:04 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningAMASherman41 min
Jul 1, 7:53 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPUBProwers107 min
Jul 1, 7:57 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningAMAHansford63 min
Jul 1, 9:04 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCHamilton, Stanton56 min
Jul 1, 9:20 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPUBBaca103 min
Jul 1, 10:27 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCMorton47 min
Jul 1, 10:48 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningAMATexas57 min
Jul 1, 10:54 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCStevens48 min
Jul 1, 10:59 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningAMACimarron61 min
Jul 2, 1:00 AM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningAMACarson60 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, 0.3 hours before the alert went out and 181 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, Dodge City, at 00:00Z on 2005-07-02Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 722 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Dodge City, at 00:00Z on 2005-07-02The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 4 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 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
722 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-123 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1967 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
37 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
4 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
112 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
Jul 1, 9:29 PM MDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCBaca, Bent, Kiowa, Prowers91 min
Jul 2, 2:58 PM MDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCAdams, Arapahoe, Boulder, Broomfield, Cheyenne, Crowley and 11 more2 hr
Jul 1, 8:10 PM MDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCDecatur, Gove, Graham, Logan, Norton, Rawlins and 3 more65 min
Jul 2, 12:32 AM MDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCClark, Ford, Gray, Haskell, Meade, Seward and 1 more28 min
Jul 1, 6:25 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPCBorden, Callahan, Coke, Coleman, Concho, Crosby and 33 more6 hr
Jul 1, 7:51 PM MDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCAndrews, Bailey, Castro, Cochran, Ector, Gaines and 7 more84 min
Jul 1, 9:23 PM MDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCBorden, Callahan, Coke, Coleman, Concho, Crosby and 34 more97 min
Jul 2, 3:47 AM MDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCBailey, Borden, Briscoe, Castro, Cochran, Crosby and 16 more88 min
Jul 2, 9:06 AM MDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCAnderson, Cherokee, Gregg, Harrison, Nacogdoches, Panola and 6 more114 min
Jul 2, 10:40 AM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPCAngelina, Cherokee, Gregg, Harrison, Houston, Jasper and 10 more6 hr
Jul 2, 11:58 AM MDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCAngelina, Jasper, Nacogdoches, Newton, Panola, Rusk and 4 more92 min
Jul 2, 1:33 PM MDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCJasper, Newton, Tyler87 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.