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Severe Thunderstorm Watch 388

June 3, 200514 counties in Kansas; 5 counties in Oklahoma

The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at Jun 3, 2005, 10:35 PM CDT for 14 counties in Kansas; 5 counties in Oklahoma. It was in force for 5 hr.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued
Jun 3, 2005, 10:35 PM CDT (03:35 UTC)
Expired
Jun 4, 2005, 4:00 AM CDT
In force
5 hr
Issued by
the Storm Prediction Center

Counties Allen County, KS, Bourbon County, KS, Butler County, KS, Chautauqua County, KS, Cherokee County, KS, Cowley County, KS, Crawford County, KS, Elk County, KS, Greenwood County, KS, Labette County, KS, Montgomery County, KS, Neosho County, KS, Wilson County, KS, Woodson County, KS, Craig County, OK, Kay County, OK, Nowata County, OK, Ottawa County, OK, Washington County, OK

The radar

The Wichita radar (KICT), 124 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 03:37 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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Warnings issued inside it

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 3, 10:58 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningICTChautauqua, Cowley32 min
Jun 3, 11:07 PM CDTTornado WarningICTCowley23 min
Jun 3, 11:08 PM CDTTornado WarningOUNKay43 min
Jun 3, 11:28 PM CDTTornado WarningICTCowley32 min
Jun 3, 11:31 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningICTChautauqua44 min
Jun 3, 11:55 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningICTChautauqua, Elk5 hr
Jun 3, 11:57 PM CDTTornado WarningICTChautauqua33 min
Jun 4, 12:23 AM CDTTornado WarningICTChautauqua19 min
Jun 4, 1:12 AM CDTTornado WarningICTChautauqua, Montgomery20 min
Jun 4, 1:15 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOUNKay45 min
Jun 4, 1:28 AM CDTTornado WarningICTMontgomery32 min
Jun 4, 2:01 AM CDTTornado WarningICTLabette, Montgomery24 min
Jun 4, 3:58 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningICTButler, Greenwood6 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

Lamont, OK (KLMN), launched 00:00Z, 3.6 hours before the alert went out and 133 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, Lamont, OK at 00:00Z on 2005-06-04Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 506 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, Lamont, OK at 00:00Z on 2005-06-04The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 267 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 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
506 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-61 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1371 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
32 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
267 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
414 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.5
Supercell composite
1.6

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SPC that day

Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 3, 9:19 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCAllen, Anderson, Butler, Chase, Chautauqua, Cherokee and 14 more26 min
Jun 4, 1:45 AM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCAllen, Bourbon, Chautauqua, Cherokee, Cowley, Crawford and 7 more90 min
Jun 4, 1:05 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCAtchison, Brown, Butler, Chase, Clay, Coffey and 24 more115 min
Jun 4, 1:25 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCCheyenne, Rawlins7 hr
Jun 4, 2:05 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCAtchison, Barton, Brown, Chase, Clay, Cloud and 37 more9 hr
Jun 4, 2:12 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCCowley, Harper, Sumner2 hr
Jun 4, 3:30 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCButler, Chautauqua, Cowley, Elk, Greenwood, Harper and 5 more8 hr
Jun 4, 5:29 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCAtchison, Brown, Clay, Cloud, Dickinson, Doniphan and 27 more91 min
Jun 4, 6:06 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCButler, Cowley, Greenwood, Harper, Kingman, Sedgwick and 1 more84 min
Jun 4, 3:50 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCJefferson7 hr

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Watches in Kansas, 2005Severe Thunderstorm Watches in Oklahoma, 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.