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Severe Thunderstorm Watch 467

June 12, 20058 counties in Kansas; 35 counties in Missouri

The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at Jun 12, 2005, 3:45 PM CDT for 8 counties in Kansas; 35 counties in Missouri. It was in force for 7 hr.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued
Jun 12, 2005, 3:45 PM CDT (20:45 UTC)
Expired
Jun 12, 2005, 11:00 PM CDT
In force
7 hr
Issued by
the Storm Prediction Center
All 43 counties

Bourbon County, KS, Cherokee County, KS, Crawford County, KS, Johnson County, KS, Leavenworth County, KS, Linn County, KS, Miami County, KS, Wyandotte County, KS, Andrew County, MO, Barton County, MO, Bates County, MO, Benton County, MO, Buchanan County, MO, Caldwell County, MO, Carroll County, MO, Cass County, MO, Cedar County, MO, Clay County, MO, Clinton County, MO, Dade County, MO, Daviess County, MO, DeKalb County, MO, Gentry County, MO, Greene County, MO, Grundy County, MO, Harrison County, MO, Henry County, MO, Hickory County, MO, Jackson County, MO, Jasper County, MO, Johnson County, MO, Lafayette County, MO, Lawrence County, MO, Livingston County, MO, Mercer County, MO, Nodaway County, MO, Pettis County, MO, Platte County, MO, Polk County, MO, Ray County, MO, St. Clair County, MO, Vernon County, MO, Worth County, MO

The radar

The Pleasant Hill radar (KEAX), 48 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:46 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

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 12, 4:11 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEAXJohnson, Leavenworth, Wyandotte49 min
Jun 12, 4:25 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEAXWyandotte50 min
Jun 12, 5:02 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEAXClay, Clinton, Platte46 min
Jun 12, 5:04 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningEAXLeavenworth, Wyandotte6 hr
Jun 12, 5:15 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEAXClay, Platte18 min
Jun 12, 5:28 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEAXJohnson, Wyandotte47 min
Jun 12, 5:54 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEAXJackson, Johnson, Lafayette37 min
Jun 12, 6:05 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEAXJohnson27 min
Jun 12, 6:57 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSGFCherokee, Crawford63 min
Jun 12, 7:10 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEAXCarroll, Chariton, Linn, Livingston27 min
Jun 12, 7:31 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSGFBarton, Jasper61 min
Jun 12, 9:57 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningEAXCooper, Howard, Pettis, Saline6 hr
Jun 12, 10:22 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningSGFCherokee7 hr
Jun 12, 10:51 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningSGFCrawford6 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

Topeka, KS (KTOP), launched 12:00Z, 8.8 hours before the alert went out and 144 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 2005-06-12Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 15 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 2005-06-12The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 43 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
15 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-212 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1252 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
26 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
43 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
44 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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SPC that day

Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 11, 8:27 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCBarber, Cowley, Harper, Sumner33 min
Jun 11, 10:11 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCBarber, Comanche, Harper, Kingman64 min
Jun 12, 5:03 AM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCMeade, Seward, Stevens2 hr
Jun 12, 12:38 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCButler, Chautauqua, Cowley, Elk, Greenwood, Labette and 3 more67 min
Jun 12, 1:20 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCAllen, Anderson, Atchison, Brown, Butler, Chase and 31 more9 hr
Jun 12, 2:00 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCCheyenne, Greeley, Sherman, Wallace, Wichita7 hr
Jun 12, 3:02 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCBourbon, Cherokee, Crawford, Johnson, Linn, Miami58 min
Jun 12, 3:47 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCGrant, Hamilton, Haskell, Kearny, Morton, Seward and 2 more88 min
Jun 12, 6:09 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCClark, Finney, Ford, Gove, Grant, Gray and 18 more96 min
Jun 12, 6:13 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCCherokee2 hr
Jun 12, 12:54 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCAdair, Chariton, Clark, Knox, Lewis, Linn and 7 more96 min

Nearby

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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.