Alert archive / Kansas / Severe Thunderstorm Watches in 2005
Severe Thunderstorm Watch 587
The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at Jul 3, 2005, 7:45 AM CDT for 21 counties in Kansas; 5 counties in Nebraska. It was in force for 5 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 3, 2005, 7:45 AM CDT (12:45 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 3, 2005, 1:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 5 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
All 26 counties
Cheyenne County, KS, Decatur County, KS, Ellis County, KS, Gove County, KS, Graham County, KS, Greeley County, KS, Lane County, KS, Logan County, KS, Ness County, KS, Norton County, KS, Phillips County, KS, Rawlins County, KS, Rooks County, KS, Rush County, KS, Scott County, KS, Sheridan County, KS, Sherman County, KS, Thomas County, KS, Trego County, KS, Wallace County, KS, Wichita County, KS, Dundy County, NE, Furnas County, NE, Harlan County, NE, Hitchcock County, NE, Red Willow County, NE
The radar
The Goodland radar (KGLD), 117 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 12:45 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
11 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 3, 8:00 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Rawlins | 60 min |
| Jul 3, 8:59 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Thomas | 35 min |
| Jul 3, 8:59 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Rawlins | 54 min |
| Jul 3, 10:05 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Thomas | 40 min |
| Jul 3, 10:31 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Sheridan | 44 min |
| Jul 3, 11:15 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Sheridan | 49 min |
| Jul 3, 11:45 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Decatur | 25 min |
| Jul 3, 11:54 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Graham | 51 min |
| Jul 3, 12:26 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Trego | 49 min |
| Jul 3, 12:27 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Decatur, Norton | 48 min |
| Jul 3, 12:56 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Rush | 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
N. Platte/Lee Bi, NE (KLBF), launched 12:00Z, 0.8 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 88 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -681 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 2503 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 22 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 43 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 36 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 3, 4:32 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Barber, Comanche, Edwards, Harper, Kingman, Kiowa and 4 more | 118 min |
| Jul 3, 7:39 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Barton, Decatur, Ellis, Ellsworth, Gove, Graham and 19 more | 66 min |
| Jul 3, 12:11 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Cheyenne, Decatur, Ellis, Gove, Graham, Greeley and 15 more | 64 min |
| Jul 3, 12:45 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Barton, Cheyenne, Decatur, Ellis, Ellsworth, Finney and 29 more | 8 hr |
| Jul 3, 1:36 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Barber, Clark, Comanche, Edwards, Ford, Grant and 13 more | 84 min |
| Jul 3, 2:35 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Barber, Barton, Butler, Chase, Clark, Comanche and 34 more | 6 hr |
| Jul 3, 5:02 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Allen, Anderson, Atchison, Bourbon, Brown, Coffey and 14 more | 118 min |
| Jul 3, 5:20 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Anderson, Atchison, Brown, Coffey, Doniphan, Douglas and 12 more | 6 hr |
| Jul 3, 6:07 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Butler, Cowley, Harper, Harvey, Kingman, McPherson and 5 more | 53 min |
| Jul 3, 5:22 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Buffalo, Chase, Cheyenne, Dawson, Deuel, Dundy and 14 more | 113 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.