Alert archive / Kansas / Severe Thunderstorm Watches in 2005
Severe Thunderstorm Watch 796
The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at Sep 18, 2005, 12:55 AM CDT for 25 counties in Kansas; 11 counties in Missouri. It was in force for 7 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Sep 18, 2005, 12:55 AM CDT (05:55 UTC)
- Expired
- Sep 18, 2005, 8:00 AM CDT
- In force
- 7 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
All 36 counties
Allen County, KS, Anderson County, KS, Bourbon County, KS, Butler County, KS, Chase County, KS, Chautauqua County, KS, Cherokee County, KS, Coffey County, KS, Cowley County, KS, Crawford County, KS, Dickinson County, KS, Elk County, KS, Franklin County, KS, Greenwood County, KS, Labette County, KS, Linn County, KS, Lyon County, KS, Marion County, KS, Miami County, KS, Montgomery County, KS, Morris County, KS, Neosho County, KS, Osage County, KS, Wilson County, KS, Woodson County, KS, Barton County, MO, Bates County, MO, Cass County, MO, Cedar County, MO, Dade County, MO, Henry County, MO, Jasper County, MO, Johnson County, MO, Lawrence County, MO, St. Clair County, MO, Vernon County, MO
The radar
The Topeka radar (KTWX), 104 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 05:56 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
7 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 18, 1:14 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Dickinson | 46 min |
| Sep 18, 1:19 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Marion | 26 min |
| Sep 18, 2:08 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Geary, Morris | 19 min |
| Sep 18, 3:17 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Lyon | 28 min |
| Sep 18, 5:12 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | Barton, Cedar, Dade, Vernon | 63 min |
| Sep 18, 6:25 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | SGF | Vernon | 6 hr |
| Sep 18, 7:53 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | SGF | St. Clair | 3 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 00:00Z, 5.9 hours before the alert went out and 97 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1573 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 51 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 241 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 314 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- -0.2
SPC that day
Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 18, 12:39 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Allen, Anderson, Bourbon, Butler, Chase, Chautauqua and 22 more | 66 min |
| Sep 18, 4:13 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Allen, Anderson, Bourbon, Butler, Chase, Chautauqua and 28 more | 92 min |
| Sep 18, 4:08 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Atchison, Brown, Clay, Doniphan, Douglas, Jackson and 12 more | 2 hr |
| Sep 18, 3:40 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Atchison | 7 hr |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Watches in Kansas, 2005Severe Thunderstorm Watches in Missouri, 2005Every severe thunderstorm watch in 2005
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.