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Severe Thunderstorm Watch 588

July 3, 2005Cheyenne County, Kit Carson County, Colorado; 35 counties in Kansas

The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at Jul 3, 2005, 11:45 AM MDT for Cheyenne County, Kit Carson County, Colorado; 35 counties in Kansas. It was in force for 8 hr.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued
Jul 3, 2005, 11:45 AM MDT (17:45 UTC)
Expired
Jul 3, 2005, 8:00 PM MDT
In force
8 hr
Issued by
the Storm Prediction Center
All 37 counties

Cheyenne County, CO, Kit Carson County, CO, Barton County, KS, Cheyenne County, KS, Decatur County, KS, Ellis County, KS, Ellsworth County, KS, Finney County, KS, Gove County, KS, Graham County, KS, Greeley County, KS, Hodgeman County, KS, Jewell County, KS, Lane County, KS, Lincoln County, KS, Logan County, KS, Mitchell County, KS, Ness County, KS, Norton County, KS, Osborne County, KS, Pawnee County, KS, Phillips County, KS, Rawlins County, KS, Reno County, KS, Rice County, KS, Rooks County, KS, Rush County, KS, Russell County, KS, Scott County, KS, Sheridan County, KS, Sherman County, KS, Smith County, KS, Stafford County, KS, Thomas County, KS, Trego County, KS, Wallace County, KS, Wichita County, KS

The radar

The Goodland radar (KGLD), 81 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 17:46 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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Warnings issued inside it

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jul 3, 11:56 AM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCRush64 min
Jul 3, 12:01 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCEllis55 min
Jul 3, 12:24 PM MDTTornado WarningDDCRush40 min
Jul 3, 12:43 PM MDTTornado WarningICTBarton47 min
Jul 3, 1:01 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCRush29 min
Jul 3, 1:28 PM MDTTornado WarningICTBarton49 min
Jul 3, 1:50 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningICTRice55 min
Jul 3, 2:32 PM MDTTornado WarningICTRice27 min
Jul 3, 2:47 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCPawnee61 min
Jul 3, 3:04 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGIDOsborne26 min
Jul 3, 3:16 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGLDCheyenne59 min
Jul 3, 3:18 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCEdwards, Hodgeman57 min
Jul 3, 3:25 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningICTBarton47 min
Jul 3, 3:33 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCStafford72 min
Jul 3, 3:34 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningICTReno56 min
Jul 3, 3:53 PM MDTTornado WarningICTReno52 min
Jul 3, 4:41 PM MDTTornado WarningICTReno49 min
Jul 3, 4:52 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGLDKit Carson53 min
Jul 3, 5:14 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCStafford46 min
Jul 3, 5:26 PM MDTTornado WarningICTReno29 min
Jul 3, 6:40 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGLDKit Carson, Yuma26 min
Jul 3, 7:05 PM MDTFlash Flood WarningICTKingman, Reno, Sedgwick6 hr
Jul 3, 7:23 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGLDSherman29 min
Jul 3, 7:27 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCStafford48 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 12:00Z, 5.8 hours before the alert went out and 174 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 12:00Z on 2005-07-03Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 815 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 12:00Z on 2005-07-03The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 240 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
815 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-321 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1468 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
43 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
240 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
268 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.5

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SPC that day

Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jul 3, 12:02 PM MDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCArapahoe, Crowley, Custer, Douglas, Elbert, El Paso and 8 more88 min
Jul 3, 12:36 PM MDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCBaca, Prowers84 min
Jul 3, 1:35 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPCBaca, Bent, Kiowa, Prowers6 hr
Jul 3, 4:22 PM MDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCLogan, Phillips, Sedgwick113 min
Jul 3, 3:32 AM MDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCBarber, Comanche, Edwards, Harper, Kingman, Kiowa and 4 more118 min
Jul 3, 6:39 AM MDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCBarton, Decatur, Ellis, Ellsworth, Gove, Graham and 19 more66 min
Jul 3, 6:45 AM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPCCheyenne, Decatur, Ellis, Gove, Graham, Greeley and 15 more5 hr
Jul 3, 11:11 AM MDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCCheyenne, Decatur, Ellis, Gove, Graham, Greeley and 15 more64 min
Jul 3, 4:02 PM MDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCAllen, Anderson, Atchison, Bourbon, Brown, Coffey and 14 more118 min
Jul 3, 4:20 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPCAnderson, Atchison, Brown, Coffey, Doniphan, Douglas and 12 more6 hr
Jul 3, 5:07 PM MDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCButler, Cowley, Harper, Harvey, Kingman, McPherson and 5 more53 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.