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Severe Thunderstorm Watch 601

July 4, 200524 counties in Kansas; 8 counties in Nebraska

The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at Jul 4, 2005, 5:00 PM CDT for 24 counties in Kansas; 8 counties in Nebraska. It was in force for 7 hr.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued
Jul 4, 2005, 5:00 PM CDT (22:00 UTC)
Expired
Jul 5, 2005, 12:00 AM CDT
In force
7 hr
Issued by
the Storm Prediction Center
All 32 counties

Cheyenne County, KS, Decatur County, KS, Finney County, KS, Gove County, KS, Grant County, KS, Gray County, KS, Greeley County, KS, Hamilton County, KS, Haskell County, KS, Kearny County, KS, Lane County, KS, Logan County, KS, Meade County, KS, Morton County, KS, Rawlins County, KS, Scott County, KS, Seward County, KS, Sheridan County, KS, Sherman County, KS, Stanton County, KS, Stevens County, KS, Thomas County, KS, Wallace County, KS, Wichita County, KS, Chase County, NE, Dundy County, NE, Frontier County, NE, Furnas County, NE, Hayes County, NE, Hitchcock County, NE, Perkins County, NE, Red Willow County, NE

The radar

The Goodland radar (KGLD), 47 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:04 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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Warnings issued inside it

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jul 4, 5:05 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLBFHayes55 min
Jul 4, 5:46 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGLDLogan44 min
Jul 4, 6:17 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLBFHayes16 min
Jul 4, 6:19 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGLDHitchcock56 min
Jul 4, 6:30 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGLDLogan28 min
Jul 4, 6:35 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGLDWallace40 min
Jul 4, 7:19 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGLDHitchcock26 min
Jul 4, 7:20 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGLDRed Willow46 min
Jul 4, 7:27 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGLDWichita63 min
Jul 4, 7:34 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGLDGreeley56 min
Jul 4, 8:05 PM CDTTornado WarningGLDGreeley40 min
Jul 4, 8:19 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCHamilton71 min
Jul 4, 8:25 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCFinney, Lane, Scott65 min
Jul 4, 8:27 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGLDWichita30 min
Jul 4, 8:32 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGLDGreeley14 min
Jul 4, 8:40 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCKearny65 min
Jul 4, 9:17 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCFinney58 min
Jul 4, 9:40 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCGray80 min
Jul 4, 10:12 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCFinney33 min
Jul 4, 10:20 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCFord, Grant70 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

Denver, CO (KDNR), launched 12:00Z, 10.0 hours before the alert went out and 183 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 2005-07-04Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 15 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 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 2005-07-04The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 24 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
15 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-333 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
2102 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
36 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
24 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
54 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.1

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SPC that day

Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jul 3, 7:20 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCAllen, Bourbon, Chautauqua, Cherokee, Crawford, Elk and 6 more115 min
Jul 3, 7:45 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPCAllen, Anderson, Bourbon, Chautauqua, Cherokee, Coffey and 9 more7 hr
Jul 3, 8:44 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCBarber, Barton, Clark, Comanche, Edwards, Ellis and 43 more31 min
Jul 3, 8:55 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPCBarber, Butler, Clark, Comanche, Cowley, Ford and 10 more4 hr
Jul 3, 8:56 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCAnderson, Atchison, Brown, Coffey, Doniphan, Douglas and 13 more64 min
Jul 3, 9:48 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCBourbon, Cherokee, Crawford, Labette, Montgomery, Neosho and 1 more87 min
Jul 3, 11:25 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCBarber, Chautauqua, Clark, Comanche, Cowley, Harper and 4 more95 min
Jul 4, 1:40 AM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCChautauqua, Elk, Labette, Montgomery35 min
Jul 4, 3:00 AM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCCheyenne, Decatur, Gove, Logan, Rawlins, Sheridan and 3 more2 hr
Jul 4, 4:42 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCCheyenne, Clark, Decatur, Edwards, Ellis, Finney and 30 more63 min
Jul 4, 6:44 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCCheyenne, Decatur, Finney, Gove, Grant, Gray and 14 more91 min
Jul 4, 12:24 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCBanner, Box Butte, Cheyenne, Deuel, Kimball, Morrill and 2 more2 hr
Jul 4, 2:20 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPCBanner, Box Butte, Cheyenne, Kimball, Morrill, Scotts Bluff8 hr

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.