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Severe Thunderstorm Watch 486
The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at Jun 15, 2005, 10:45 PM CDT for 7 counties in Kansas; 9 counties in Oklahoma. It was in force for 6 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 15, 2005, 10:45 PM CDT (03:45 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 16, 2005, 5:00 AM CDT
- In force
- 6 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
Counties Butler County, KS, Chautauqua County, KS, Cowley County, KS, Elk County, KS, Greenwood County, KS, Harper County, KS, Sumner County, KS, Alfalfa County, OK, Blaine County, OK, Garfield County, OK, Grant County, OK, Kay County, OK, Kingfisher County, OK, Major County, OK, Noble County, OK, Osage County, OK
The radar
The Vance AFB radar (KVNX), 58 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 03:49 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.
Warnings issued inside it
4 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 15, 11:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Alfalfa, Grant | 45 min |
| Jun 15, 11:50 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Cowley | 22 min |
| Jun 16, 12:18 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Osage, Pawnee | 57 min |
| Jun 16, 1:15 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Osage, Pawnee, Tulsa, Washington | 60 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
Lamont, OK (KLMN), launched 00:00Z, 3.8 hours before the alert went out and 38 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 652 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -202 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 2047 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 29 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 7 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 132 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 1.0
SPC that day
Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 15, 7:01 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Barber, Barton, Clark, Comanche, Edwards, Ellis and 41 more | 89 min |
| Jun 15, 7:25 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Barber, Barton, Cloud, Comanche, Edwards, Ellis and 21 more | 8 hr |
| Jun 15, 10:14 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Barber, Harper, Kingman, Pratt, Sumner | 91 min |
| Jun 16, 1:01 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Chautauqua, Cherokee, Elk, Labette, Montgomery, Neosho and 2 more | 89 min |
| Jun 16, 2:54 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Clark, Comanche, Grant, Hamilton, Haskell, Meade and 4 more | 3 hr |
| Jun 16, 3:08 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Jewell, Phillips, Republic, Smith, Washington | 2 hr |
| Jun 16, 3:50 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Barber, Clark, Comanche, Edwards, Finney, Ford and 18 more | 6 hr |
| Jun 16, 5:15 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Cheyenne, Decatur, Ellis, Gove, Graham, Lane and 15 more | 8 hr |
| Jun 16, 6:21 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Atchison, Brown, Clay, Cloud, Dickinson, Geary and 16 more | 114 min |
| Jun 16, 6:33 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Barber, Clark, Comanche, Edwards, Finney, Ford and 18 more | 87 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.