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Severe Thunderstorm Watch 484

June 15, 200511 counties in Colorado; 35 counties in Kansas; 15 counties in Nebraska

The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at Jun 15, 2005, 2:05 PM MDT for 11 counties in Colorado; 35 counties in Kansas; 15 counties in Nebraska. It was in force for 8 hr.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued: Jun 15, 2005, 2:05 PM MDT (20:05 UTC)
Expired: Jun 15, 2005, 10:00 PM MDT
In force: 8 hr
Issued by: the Storm Prediction Center

All 61 counties

Baca County, CO, Bent County, CO, Cheyenne County, CO, Kiowa County, CO, Kit Carson County, CO, Logan County, CO, Phillips County, CO, Prowers County, CO, Sedgwick County, CO, Washington County, CO, Yuma County, CO, Cheyenne County, KS, Clark County, KS, Decatur County, KS, Ellis County, KS, Finney County, KS, Ford County, KS, Gove County, KS, Graham County, KS, Grant County, KS, Gray County, KS, Greeley County, KS, Hamilton County, KS, Haskell County, KS, Hodgeman County, KS, Kearny County, KS, Lane County, KS, Logan County, KS, Meade County, KS, Morton County, KS, Ness County, KS, Norton County, KS, Phillips County, KS, Rawlins County, KS, Rooks County, KS, Rush County, KS, Scott County, KS, Seward County, KS, Sheridan County, KS, Sherman County, KS, Stanton County, KS, Stevens County, KS, Thomas County, KS, Trego County, KS, Wallace County, KS, Wichita 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), 81 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:04 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

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 15, 2:22 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	Baca, Las Animas	53 min
Jun 15, 3:57 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	Kiowa	63 min
Jun 15, 4:22 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Kit Carson	53 min
Jun 15, 4:22 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	Baca	43 min
Jun 15, 5:00 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	Kiowa	23 min
Jun 15, 5:04 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Trego	41 min
Jun 15, 5:07 PM MDT	Tornado Warning	GLD	Cheyenne	23 min
Jun 15, 5:11 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Greeley	45 min
Jun 15, 5:21 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Wichita	54 min
Jun 15, 5:29 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Wallace	61 min
Jun 15, 5:33 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	Rooks	57 min
Jun 15, 5:45 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Ellis, Trego	45 min
Jun 15, 5:53 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Graham	20 min
Jun 15, 5:54 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Scott	38 min
Jun 15, 6:03 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Seward, Stevens	44 min
Jun 15, 6:03 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Sherman	57 min
Jun 15, 6:05 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Gove	40 min
Jun 15, 6:07 PM MDT	Tornado Warning	GLD	Logan	38 min
Jun 15, 6:23 PM MDT	Tornado Warning	DDC	Trego	52 min
Jun 15, 6:31 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	Osborne, Rooks	59 min
Jun 15, 6:34 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Rush	41 min
Jun 15, 6:34 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Thomas	48 min
Jun 15, 6:37 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Sheridan	32 min
Jun 15, 6:41 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Gove	44 min
Jun 15, 6:42 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Lane, Ness	35 min
Jun 15, 6:44 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Seward	17 min
Jun 15, 6:48 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Finney, Gray, Haskell	42 min
Jun 15, 7:01 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Graham	58 min
Jun 15, 7:13 PM MDT	Tornado Warning	DDC	Pawnee, Rush	47 min
Jun 15, 7:13 PM MDT	Tornado Warning	DDC	Ness, Trego	18 min
Jun 15, 7:24 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Ellis, Rush	21 min
Jun 15, 7:25 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Ford, Hodgeman	65 min
Jun 15, 7:33 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Gray	12 min
Jun 15, 7:49 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Ellis, Rush	30 min
Jun 15, 8:00 PM MDT	Tornado Warning	DDC	Pawnee, Rush	22 min
Jun 15, 8:16 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Edwards, Pawnee, Rush	32 min
Jun 15, 8:27 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Clark, Comanche, Ford, Kiowa	48 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 12:00Z, 8.1 hours before the alert went out and 186 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: -473 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1902 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 31 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 60 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 49 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.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 15, 12:51 PM MDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Baca, Bent, Las Animas, Otero	114 min
Jun 15, 1:50 PM MDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Barton, Cheyenne, Ellis, Ford, Gove, Graham and 14 more	115 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.