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Severe Thunderstorm Watch 736

August 19, 200555 counties in Kansas; 10 counties in Missouri; Pawnee County, Richardson County, Nebraska

The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at Aug 19, 2005, 3:20 PM CDT for 55 counties in Kansas; 10 counties in Missouri; Pawnee County, Richardson County, Nebraska. It was in force for 7 hr.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued
Aug 19, 2005, 3:20 PM CDT (20:20 UTC)
Expired
Aug 19, 2005, 10:00 PM CDT
In force
7 hr
Issued by
the Storm Prediction Center
All 67 counties

Atchison County, KS, Barton County, KS, Brown County, KS, Chase County, KS, Clay County, KS, Cloud County, KS, Coffey County, KS, Dickinson County, KS, Doniphan County, KS, Douglas County, KS, Edwards County, KS, Ellis County, KS, Ellsworth County, KS, Ford County, KS, Franklin County, KS, Geary County, KS, Graham County, KS, Harvey County, KS, Hodgeman County, KS, Jackson County, KS, Jefferson County, KS, Jewell County, KS, Johnson County, KS, Kiowa County, KS, Leavenworth County, KS, Lincoln County, KS, Lyon County, KS, Marion County, KS, Marshall County, KS, McPherson County, KS, Miami County, KS, Mitchell County, KS, Morris County, KS, Nemaha County, KS, Ness County, KS, Osage County, KS, Osborne County, KS, Ottawa County, KS, Pawnee County, KS, Pottawatomie County, KS, Pratt County, KS, Reno County, KS, Republic County, KS, Rice County, KS, Riley County, KS, Rooks County, KS, Rush County, KS, Russell County, KS, Saline County, KS, Shawnee County, KS, Stafford County, KS, Trego County, KS, Wabaunsee County, KS, Washington County, KS, Wyandotte County, KS, Andrew County, MO, Atchison County, MO, Buchanan County, MO, Clay County, MO, DeKalb County, MO, Gentry County, MO, Holt County, MO, Nodaway County, MO, Platte County, MO, Worth County, MO, Pawnee County, NE, Richardson County, NE

The radar

The Topeka radar (KTWX), 145 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:22 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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Warnings issued inside it

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Aug 19, 3:30 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTOPJefferson45 min
Aug 19, 3:31 PM CDTTornado WarningDDCRush44 min
Aug 19, 3:38 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCEllis, Rush62 min
Aug 19, 3:40 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEAXClay50 min
Aug 19, 3:43 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningTOPJefferson, Shawnee3 hr
Aug 19, 3:57 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningEAXLeavenworth6 hr
Aug 19, 3:57 PM CDTTornado Warning EmergencyICTBarton48 min
Aug 19, 4:00 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTOPDouglas, Jefferson, Shawnee31 min
Aug 19, 4:05 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningICTBarton51 min
Aug 19, 4:35 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCEdwards, Pawnee19 min
Aug 19, 4:37 PM CDTTornado WarningICTBarton23 min
Aug 19, 4:42 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningICTRice63 min
Aug 19, 4:51 PM CDTTornado WarningTOPGeary, Morris39 min
Aug 19, 4:56 PM CDTTornado WarningICTBarton, Ellsworth, Rice34 min
Aug 19, 5:24 PM CDTTornado WarningTOPGeary, Morris36 min
Aug 19, 5:28 PM CDTTornado WarningICTEllsworth, Rice33 min
Aug 19, 5:40 PM CDTTornado WarningICTMcPherson, Saline60 min
Aug 19, 5:50 PM CDTTornado WarningTOPMorris, Wabaunsee40 min
Aug 19, 6:16 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTOPDickinson47 min
Aug 19, 6:33 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningICTMarion36 min
Aug 19, 6:39 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTOPGeary, Morris51 min
Aug 19, 6:46 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTOPShawnee, Wabaunsee44 min
Aug 19, 6:56 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTOPMorris49 min
Aug 19, 7:00 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningTOPJefferson, Shawnee6 hr
Aug 19, 7:25 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningTOPDickinson, Geary, Morris6 hr
Aug 19, 7:40 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTOPLyon30 min
Aug 19, 8:06 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCKiowa39 min
Aug 19, 8:14 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCClark, Ford47 min
Aug 19, 8:42 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningEAXAtchison6 hr
Aug 19, 8:52 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningTOPDouglas3 hr
Aug 19, 8:59 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCKiowa46 min
Aug 19, 9:23 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCKiowa42 min
Aug 19, 9:30 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningEAXJohnson, Wyandotte6 hr

Discussions around it

SPC mesoscale discussions over the same counties from four hours before the watch to its end.

The nearest sounding before it

Topeka, KS (KTOP), launched 12:00Z, 8.3 hours before the alert went out and 196 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, Topeka, KS at 12:00Z on 2005-08-19Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 927 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, Topeka, KS at 12:00Z on 2005-08-19The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 253 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
927 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-277 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1076 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
41 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
253 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
245 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
Aug 18, 8:00 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCAtchison, Brown, Doniphan, Douglas, Jackson, Jefferson and 7 more2 hr
Aug 18, 11:15 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCAtchison, Brown, Doniphan, Douglas, Jackson, Jefferson and 7 more60 min
Aug 19, 10:55 AM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCBarton, Clay, Cloud, Decatur, Dickinson, Ellis and 23 more2 hr
Aug 19, 1:50 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCAtchison, Brown, Clay, Cloud, Doniphan, Jackson and 11 more115 min
Aug 19, 2:52 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCBarton, Clay, Cloud, Dickinson, Edwards, Ellis and 33 more53 min
Aug 19, 5:41 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCAtchison, Barton, Brown, Chase, Clay, Cloud and 39 more2 hr
Aug 19, 4:09 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCLewis, Lincoln, Marion, Pike, Ralls2 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.