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Severe Thunderstorm Watch 609
The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at Jul 21, 2000, 10:00 PM MDT for 5 counties in Colorado; 10 counties in Kansas; Cimarron County, Texas County, Oklahoma. It was in force for 5 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 21, 2000, 10:00 PM MDT (04:00 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 22, 2000, 3:00 AM MDT
- In force
- 5 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
Counties Baca County, CO, Bent County, CO, Cheyenne County, CO, Kiowa County, CO, Prowers County, CO, Grant County, KS, Greeley County, KS, Hamilton County, KS, Kearny County, KS, Morton County, KS, Seward County, KS, Stanton County, KS, Stevens County, KS, Wallace County, KS, Wichita County, KS, Cimarron County, OK, Texas County, OK
The radar
The Pueblo radar (KPUX), 158 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 04:04 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
3 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 21, 10:19 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Kearny | 41 min |
| Jul 21, 10:42 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Grant, Haskell | 48 min |
| Jul 21, 11:11 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Seward | 49 min |
The nearest sounding before it
Denver, CO (KDNR), launched 00:00Z, 4.0 hours before the alert went out and 223 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
- 941 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -38 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 3104 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 39 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -69 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -19 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- -1.0
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.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 21, 9:00 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Barber, Barton, Clark, Comanche, Decatur, Edwards and 28 more | 5 hr |
| Jul 21, 11:00 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Alfalfa, Atoka, Blaine, Caddo, Canadian, Carter and 36 more | 6 hr |
| Jul 22, 5:00 AM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Atoka, Bryan, Carter, Choctaw, Coal, Jefferson and 7 more | 5 hr |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Watches in Kansas, 2000Severe Thunderstorm Watches in Colorado, 2000Severe Thunderstorm Watches in Oklahoma, 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.