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Severe Thunderstorm Watch 591

July 3, 200515 counties in Kansas; 19 counties in Missouri

The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at Jul 3, 2005, 7:45 PM CDT for 15 counties in Kansas; 19 counties in Missouri. It was in force for 7 hr.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued: Jul 3, 2005, 7:45 PM CDT (00:45 UTC)
Expired: Jul 4, 2005, 3:00 AM CDT
In force: 7 hr
Issued by: the Storm Prediction Center

All 34 counties

Allen County, KS, Anderson County, KS, Bourbon County, KS, Chautauqua County, KS, Cherokee County, KS, Coffey County, KS, Crawford County, KS, Elk County, KS, Greenwood County, KS, Labette County, KS, Linn County, KS, Montgomery County, KS, Neosho County, KS, Wilson County, KS, Woodson County, KS, Barton County, MO, Bates County, MO, Camden County, MO, Cedar County, MO, Christian County, MO, Dade County, MO, Dallas County, MO, Douglas County, MO, Greene County, MO, Hickory County, MO, Jasper County, MO, Laclede County, MO, Lawrence County, MO, Newton County, MO, Polk County, MO, St. Clair County, MO, Vernon County, MO, Webster County, MO, Wright County, MO

The radar

The Pleasant Hill radar (KEAX), 129 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:45 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

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jul 3, 7:51 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TOP	Coffey, Osage	39 min
Jul 3, 8:01 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Butler, Cowley, Greenwood	59 min
Jul 3, 8:27 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TOP	Anderson, Coffey, Franklin	48 min
Jul 3, 8:45 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Woodson	47 min
Jul 3, 9:12 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TOP	Anderson	18 min
Jul 3, 9:14 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Linn, Miami	46 min
Jul 3, 9:33 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Chautauqua, Elk	57 min
Jul 3, 10:05 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Greenwood	29 min
Jul 3, 11:22 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Labette, Montgomery, Neosho, Wilson	37 min
Jul 4, 12:58 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Chautauqua, Cowley	34 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

Springfield, MO (KSGF), launched 00:00Z, 0.8 hours before the alert went out and 124 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 1292 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -121 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1870 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 28 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 38 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 69 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.8

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SPC that day

Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jul 3, 7:20 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Allen, Bourbon, Chautauqua, Cherokee, Crawford, Elk and 6 more	115 min
Jul 3, 8:44 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Barber, Barton, Clark, Comanche, Edwards, Ellis and 43 more	31 min
Jul 3, 8:55 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	Barber, Butler, Clark, Comanche, Cowley, Ford and 10 more	4 hr
Jul 3, 8:56 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Anderson, Atchison, Brown, Coffey, Doniphan, Douglas and 13 more	64 min
Jul 3, 9:48 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Bourbon, Cherokee, Crawford, Labette, Montgomery, Neosho and 1 more	87 min
Jul 3, 11:25 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Barber, Chautauqua, Clark, Comanche, Cowley, Harper and 4 more	95 min
Jul 4, 1:40 AM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Chautauqua, Elk, Labette, Montgomery	35 min
Jul 4, 3:00 AM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Cheyenne, Decatur, Gove, Logan, Rawlins, Sheridan and 3 more	2 hr
Jul 4, 4:42 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Cheyenne, Clark, Decatur, Edwards, Ellis, Finney and 30 more	63 min
Jul 4, 5:00 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	Cheyenne, Decatur, Finney, Gove, Grant, Gray and 18 more	7 hr
Jul 4, 6:44 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Cheyenne, Decatur, Finney, Gove, Grant, Gray and 14 more	91 min
Jul 4, 12:01 AM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Barry, Barton, Christian, Dade, Douglas, Greene and 9 more	89 min
Jul 4, 2:15 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	Barry, McDonald, Stone, Taney	7 hr
Jul 4, 5:12 AM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Barry, McDonald, Stone, Taney	63 min
Jul 4, 11:13 AM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Jefferson, Saint Charles, Saint Louis, City of Saint Louis	92 min
Jul 4, 12:21 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Bollinger, Butler, Carter, Crawford, Dent, Howell and 11 more	84 min
Jul 4, 12:50 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	Bollinger, Butler, Cape Girardeau, Carter, Crawford, Dent and 18 more	6 hr
Jul 4, 3:22 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Bollinger, Butler, Cape Girardeau, Carter, Crawford, Dent and 19 more	83 min
Jul 4, 5:41 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Bollinger, Butler, Cape Girardeau, Dunklin, Madison, Mississippi and 8 more	94 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.