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Severe Thunderstorm Watch 300

May 27, 20018 counties in Colorado; 27 counties in Kansas; Harper County, Woodward County, Oklahoma

The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at May 27, 2001, 2:30 PM MDT for 8 counties in Colorado; 27 counties in Kansas; Harper County, Woodward County, Oklahoma. It was in force for 6 hr.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued
May 27, 2001, 2:30 PM MDT (20:30 UTC)
Expired
May 27, 2001, 8:00 PM MDT
In force
6 hr
Issued by
the Storm Prediction Center
All 37 counties

Bent County, CO, Cheyenne County, CO, Crowley County, CO, Kiowa County, CO, Kit Carson County, CO, Lincoln County, CO, Prowers County, CO, Washington County, CO, Clark County, KS, Comanche County, KS, Edwards County, KS, Finney County, KS, Ford County, KS, Gove 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, Logan County, KS, Meade County, KS, Ness County, KS, Pawnee County, KS, Rush County, KS, Scott County, KS, Seward County, KS, Sherman County, KS, Stanton County, KS, Stevens County, KS, Wallace County, KS, Wichita County, KS, Harper County, OK, Woodward County, OK

The radar

The Goodland radar (KGLD), 78 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:30 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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Warnings issued inside it

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
May 27, 2:30 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBOULincoln30 min
May 27, 2:30 PM MDTTornado WarningGLDLogan, Wallace45 min
May 27, 2:38 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCFinney52 min
May 27, 2:43 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCScott47 min
May 27, 2:58 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGLDWichita62 min
May 27, 3:06 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCFinney39 min
May 27, 3:11 PM MDTTornado WarningGLDWichita49 min
May 27, 3:12 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCHodgeman48 min
May 27, 3:15 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGLDLogan30 min
May 27, 3:22 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGLDCheyenne53 min
May 27, 3:24 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCStanton51 min
May 27, 3:26 PM MDTTornado WarningGLDLogan49 min
May 27, 3:28 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCFord, Gray47 min
May 27, 3:37 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCScott53 min
May 27, 3:58 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCFinney32 min
May 27, 4:13 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCEdwards47 min
May 27, 4:14 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCFord, Gray, Hodgeman61 min
May 27, 4:15 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGLDCheyenne30 min
May 27, 4:26 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCFinney64 min
May 27, 4:36 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCPawnee29 min
May 27, 4:36 PM MDTTornado WarningDDCFord39 min
May 27, 4:42 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGLDLogan48 min
May 27, 4:43 PM MDTFlash Flood WarningDDCFinney, Ford, Gray, Hodgeman3 hr
May 27, 5:08 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCClark, Comanche, Kiowa, Meade67 min
May 27, 5:08 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCGrant, Haskell, Stevens67 min
May 27, 5:08 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCSeward67 min
May 27, 5:43 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOUNHarper, Woods47 min
May 27, 6:08 PM MDTTornado WarningOUNHarper52 min
May 27, 6:18 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCSeward, Stevens42 min
May 27, 6:33 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOUNEllis, Woodward42 min
May 27, 7:15 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOUNEllis, Woodward30 min

The nearest sounding before it

Denver, CO (KDNR), launched 12:00Z, 8.5 hours before the alert went out and 168 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 2001-05-27Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 18 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 2001-05-27The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 93 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
18 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-264 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
2076 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
42 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
93 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
116 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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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
May 27, 12:45 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPCBarber, Chautauqua, Cherokee, Cowley, Crawford, Elk and 9 more5 hr
May 27, 4:45 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPCBarber, Cowley, Harper, Kingman, Pratt, Reno and 3 more5 hr
May 26, 10:00 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPCBeckham, Harmon, Roger Mills6 hr

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Watches in Kansas, 2001Severe Thunderstorm Watches in Colorado, 2001Severe Thunderstorm Watches in Oklahoma, 2001Every severe thunderstorm watch in 2001

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.