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Severe Thunderstorm Watch 455

June 10, 200524 counties in Kansas

The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at Jun 10, 2005, 6:50 PM CDT for 24 counties in Kansas. It was in force for 5 hr.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued
Jun 10, 2005, 6:50 PM CDT (23:50 UTC)
Expired
Jun 11, 2005, 12:00 AM CDT
In force
5 hr
Issued by
the Storm Prediction Center
All 24 counties

Allen County, KS, Anderson County, KS, Bourbon County, KS, Butler County, KS, Chase County, KS, Chautauqua County, KS, Cherokee County, KS, Coffey County, KS, Cowley County, KS, Crawford County, KS, Elk County, KS, Franklin County, KS, Greenwood County, KS, Labette County, KS, Linn County, KS, Lyon County, KS, Marion County, KS, Miami County, KS, Montgomery County, KS, Morris County, KS, Neosho County, KS, Osage County, KS, Wilson County, KS, Woodson County, KS

The radar

The Topeka radar (KTWX), 118 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:50 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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Warnings issued inside it

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 10, 7:25 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningICTChase, Marion58 min
Jun 10, 7:43 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningICTButler, Greenwood44 min
Jun 10, 7:44 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTOPCoffey, Lyon, Morris46 min
Jun 10, 8:25 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTOPMorris35 min
Jun 10, 8:29 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTOPCoffey, Lyon, Osage, Wabaunsee35 min
Jun 10, 9:17 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTOPCoffey, Osage46 min
Jun 10, 10:23 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningICTCowley30 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

Topeka, KS (KTOP), launched 12:00Z, 11.8 hours before the alert went out and 107 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, Topeka, KS at 12:00Z on 2005-06-10Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 504 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, Topeka, KS at 12:00Z on 2005-06-10The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 293 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
504 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-289 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1311 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
43 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
293 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
353 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.8

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SPC that day

Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 9, 7:42 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCBrown, Clay, Cloud, Jewell, Lincoln, Marshall and 8 more93 min
Jun 9, 8:10 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPCBrown, Doniphan, Marshall, Nemaha, Washington4 hr
Jun 9, 9:27 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCBarber, Clark, Comanche, Edwards, Ford, Kingman and 4 more93 min
Jun 9, 9:41 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCAtchison, Brown, Clay, Cloud, Dickinson, Geary and 14 more2 hr
Jun 9, 10:25 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPCBarber, Clark, Comanche, Harper, Meade, Sumner6 hr
Jun 10, 11:30 AM CDTTornado WatchSPCClark, Comanche, Meade, Morton, Seward, Stevens7 hr
Jun 10, 2:25 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCClark, Comanche, Meade2 hr
Jun 10, 2:26 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCClark, Comanche, Meade2 hr
Jun 10, 6:07 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCChautauqua, Cherokee, Cowley, Crawford, Elk, Labette and 3 more113 min

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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.