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Severe Thunderstorm Watch 244
The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at May 10, 2005, 6:00 PM MDT for 10 counties in Colorado; 6 counties in Kansas; 15 counties in Nebraska. It was in force for 7 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- May 10, 2005, 6:00 PM MDT (00:00 UTC)
- Expired
- May 11, 2005, 1:00 AM MDT
- In force
- 7 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
All 31 counties
Adams County, CO, Arapahoe County, CO, Denver County, CO, Logan County, CO, Morgan County, CO, Phillips County, CO, Sedgwick County, CO, Washington County, CO, Weld County, CO, Yuma County, CO, Cheyenne County, KS, Decatur County, KS, Norton County, KS, Phillips County, KS, Rawlins County, KS, Smith County, KS, Buffalo County, NE, Chase County, NE, Dawson County, NE, Dundy County, NE, Franklin County, NE, Frontier County, NE, Furnas County, NE, Gosper County, NE, Harlan County, NE, Hayes County, NE, Hitchcock County, NE, Kearney County, NE, Perkins County, NE, Phelps County, NE, Red Willow County, NE
The radar
The Goodland radar (KGLD), 132 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:01 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
6 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 10, 6:23 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | GID | Kearney | 56 min |
| May 10, 6:26 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BOU | Weld | 49 min |
| May 10, 6:30 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | GID | Phelps | 23 min |
| May 10, 6:41 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | GID | Buffalo | 49 min |
| May 10, 7:12 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BOU | Weld | 48 min |
| May 10, 9:09 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BOU | Weld | 37 min |
Discussions around it
SPC mesoscale discussions over the same counties from four hours before the watch to its end.
The nearest sounding before it
Denver, CO (KDNR), launched 00:00Z, 0.0 hours before the alert went out and 82 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
- 628 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -85 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 2362 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 66 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 217 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 342 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 3.1
SPC that day
Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 11, 1:36 PM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Adams, Arapahoe, Bent, Cheyenne, Crowley, Elbert and 7 more | 114 min |
| May 11, 2:10 PM MDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Cheyenne, Kit Carson, Prowers, Washington, Yuma | 7 hr |
| May 11, 2:55 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Phillips, Sedgwick | 8 hr |
| May 11, 4:13 PM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Cheyenne, Kiowa, Kit Carson, Prowers, Washington, Yuma | 92 min |
| May 11, 7:41 AM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Atchison, Brown, Clay, Doniphan, Douglas, Geary and 12 more | 2 hr |
| May 11, 10:45 AM MDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Atchison, Brown, Doniphan, Jackson, Jefferson, Leavenworth and 6 more | 7 hr |
| May 11, 1:55 PM MDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Clay, Cloud, Dickinson, Ellis, Geary, Jewell and 11 more | 7 hr |
| May 11, 2:41 PM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Atchison, Brown, Doniphan, Jackson, Jefferson, Leavenworth and 4 more | 94 min |
| May 11, 3:50 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Johnson, Linn, Miami | 6 hr |
| May 11, 3:53 PM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Clay, Cloud, Dickinson, Ellis, Geary, Jewell and 11 more | 97 min |
| May 11, 4:25 PM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Atchison, Brown, Doniphan, Douglas, Franklin, Jackson and 13 more | 2 hr |
| May 11, 5:45 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Brown, Jackson, Jefferson, Marshall, Nemaha, Pottawatomie and 1 more | 7 hr |
| May 10, 8:14 PM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Burt, Butler, Colfax, Cuming, Dakota, Dodge and 10 more | 2 hr |
| May 11, 3:00 PM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Antelope, Arthur, Blaine, Boone, Brown, Buffalo and 25 more | 2 hr |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Watches in Nebraska, 2005Severe Thunderstorm Watches in Colorado, 2005Severe Thunderstorm Watches in Kansas, 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.