Alert archive / Kansas / Severe Thunderstorm Watches in 2005
Severe Thunderstorm Watch 490
The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at Jun 16, 2005, 8:55 PM CDT for 17 counties in Kansas. It was in force for 6 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 16, 2005, 8:55 PM CDT (01:55 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 17, 2005, 3:00 AM CDT
- In force
- 6 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
Counties Barber County, KS, Barton County, KS, Dickinson County, KS, Ellsworth County, KS, Harper County, KS, Harvey County, KS, Kingman County, KS, Marion County, KS, McPherson County, KS, Pratt County, KS, Reno County, KS, Rice County, KS, Russell County, KS, Saline County, KS, Sedgwick County, KS, Stafford County, KS, Sumner County, KS
The radar
The Wichita radar (KICT), 84 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:59 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
2 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 16, 9:15 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Harvey, Reno, Sedgwick | 60 min |
| Jun 16, 9:24 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Barton, Ellsworth, Rice | 66 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, 1.9 hours before the alert went out and 163 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
- 584 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -13 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 2940 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 38 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 336 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 311 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 6.4
SPC that day
Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 16, 10:55 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Comanche | 95 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.