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Severe Thunderstorm Watch 485

June 15, 200527 counties in Kansas

The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at Jun 15, 2005, 7:25 PM CDT for 27 counties in Kansas. It was in force for 8 hr.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued
Jun 15, 2005, 7:25 PM CDT (00:25 UTC)
Expired
Jun 16, 2005, 3:00 AM CDT
In force
8 hr
Issued by
the Storm Prediction Center
All 27 counties

Barber County, KS, Barton County, KS, Cloud County, KS, Comanche County, KS, Edwards County, KS, Ellis County, KS, Ellsworth County, KS, Harper County, KS, Jewell County, KS, Kingman County, KS, Kiowa County, KS, Lincoln County, KS, McPherson County, KS, Mitchell County, KS, Osborne County, KS, Ottawa County, KS, Pawnee County, KS, Pratt County, KS, Reno County, KS, Republic County, KS, Rice County, KS, Rooks County, KS, Rush County, KS, Russell County, KS, Saline County, KS, Smith County, KS, Stafford County, KS

The radar

The Wichita radar (KICT), 122 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:25 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

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 15, 7:31 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGIDOsborne, Rooks59 min
Jun 15, 7:34 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCRush41 min
Jun 15, 8:13 PM CDTTornado WarningDDCPawnee, Rush47 min
Jun 15, 8:18 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGIDMitchell57 min
Jun 15, 8:24 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCEllis, Rush21 min
Jun 15, 8:33 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGIDOsborne36 min
Jun 15, 8:37 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningICTBarton, Russell16 min
Jun 15, 8:49 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCEllis, Rush30 min
Jun 15, 8:58 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningICTBarton, Russell58 min
Jun 15, 9:00 PM CDTTornado WarningDDCPawnee, Rush22 min
Jun 15, 9:16 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCEdwards, Pawnee, Rush32 min
Jun 15, 9:27 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCClark, Comanche, Ford, Kiowa48 min
Jun 15, 9:39 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCBarber, Pratt, Stafford66 min
Jun 15, 9:46 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningICTKingman, Reno59 min
Jun 15, 10:02 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningICTRice39 min
Jun 15, 10:42 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningICTReno18 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

Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 00:00Z, 0.4 hours before the alert went out and 126 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, Dodge City, at 00:00Z on 2005-06-16Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 2864 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, Dodge City, at 00:00Z on 2005-06-16The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 59 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
2864 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-45 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1729 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
28 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
59 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
155 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.3
Supercell composite
6.7

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SPC that day

Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 15, 7:01 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCBarber, Barton, Clark, Comanche, Edwards, Ellis and 41 more89 min
Jun 15, 10:14 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCBarber, Harper, Kingman, Pratt, Sumner91 min
Jun 15, 10:45 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPCButler, Chautauqua, Cowley, Elk, Greenwood, Harper and 1 more6 hr
Jun 16, 1:01 AM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCChautauqua, Cherokee, Elk, Labette, Montgomery, Neosho and 2 more89 min
Jun 16, 2:54 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCClark, Comanche, Grant, Hamilton, Haskell, Meade and 4 more3 hr
Jun 16, 3:08 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCJewell, Phillips, Republic, Smith, Washington2 hr
Jun 16, 3:50 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCBarber, Clark, Comanche, Edwards, Finney, Ford and 18 more6 hr
Jun 16, 5:15 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCCheyenne, Decatur, Ellis, Gove, Graham, Lane and 15 more8 hr
Jun 16, 6:21 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCAtchison, Brown, Clay, Cloud, Dickinson, Geary and 16 more114 min
Jun 16, 6:33 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCBarber, Clark, Comanche, Edwards, Finney, Ford and 18 more87 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.