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Severe Thunderstorm Watch 429

June 12, 2000Baca County, Kiowa County, Prowers County, Colorado; 24 counties in Kansas; 4 counties in Oklahoma

The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at Jun 12, 2000, 1:30 PM MDT for Baca County, Kiowa County, Prowers County, Colorado; 24 counties in Kansas; 4 counties in Oklahoma. It was in force for 6 hr.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued
Jun 12, 2000, 1:30 PM MDT (19:30 UTC)
Expired
Jun 12, 2000, 7:00 PM MDT
In force
6 hr
Issued by
the Storm Prediction Center
All 31 counties

Baca County, CO, Kiowa County, CO, Prowers County, CO, Clark County, KS, Comanche County, KS, Edwards County, KS, Finney County, KS, Ford County, KS, Grant County, KS, Gray County, KS, Greeley County, KS, Hamilton County, KS, Haskell County, KS, Hodgeman County, KS, Kearny County, KS, Kiowa County, KS, Lane County, KS, Meade County, KS, Morton County, KS, Ness County, KS, Pawnee County, KS, Rush County, KS, Scott County, KS, Seward County, KS, Stanton County, KS, Stevens County, KS, Wichita County, KS, Beaver County, OK, Cimarron County, OK, Harper County, OK, Texas County, OK

The radar

The Dodge City radar (KDDC), 126 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:32 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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Warnings issued inside it

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 12, 3:00 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCMorton, Stanton45 min
Jun 12, 3:25 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningAMACimarron50 min
Jun 12, 4:09 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCStevens51 min
Jun 12, 4:45 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningAMATexas60 min
Jun 12, 4:55 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCHaskell, Seward50 min
Jun 12, 6:34 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCHodgeman41 min

The nearest sounding before it

Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 12:00Z, 7.5 hours before the alert went out and 132 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 2000-06-12Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1220 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 2000-06-12The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 185 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
1220 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-274 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1247 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
20 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
185 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
190 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
1.2

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The text

The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.

SPC that day

Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 12, 3:00 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPCCheyenne, Kit Carson, Phillips, Sedgwick, Yuma6 hr

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Watches in Kansas, 2000Severe Thunderstorm Watches in Oklahoma, 2000Severe Thunderstorm Watches in Colorado, 2000Every severe thunderstorm watch in 2000

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.