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Severe Thunderstorm Watch 566

June 30, 20058 counties in Kansas; 18 counties in Missouri

The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at Jun 30, 2005, 4:35 PM CDT for 8 counties in Kansas; 18 counties in Missouri. It was in force for 6 hr.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued: Jun 30, 2005, 4:35 PM CDT (21:35 UTC)
Expired: Jun 30, 2005, 11:00 PM CDT
In force: 6 hr
Issued by: the Storm Prediction Center

All 26 counties

Allen County, KS, Anderson County, KS, Bourbon County, KS, Cherokee County, KS, Crawford County, KS, Labette County, KS, Linn County, KS, Neosho County, KS, Barton County, MO, Cedar County, MO, Christian County, MO, Dade County, MO, Dallas County, MO, Douglas County, MO, Greene County, MO, Hickory County, MO, Jasper County, MO, Laclede County, MO, Lawrence County, MO, Newton County, MO, Ozark County, MO, Polk County, MO, St. Clair County, MO, Vernon County, MO, Webster County, MO, Wright County, MO

The radar

The Springfield radar (KSGF), 93 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:36 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

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 30, 4:46 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	St. Clair	42 min
Jun 30, 4:59 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TOP	Anderson, Coffey	46 min
Jun 30, 5:00 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Dallas, Polk	60 min
Jun 30, 5:32 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Linn	43 min
Jun 30, 5:41 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Webster	64 min
Jun 30, 5:45 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Greene	60 min
Jun 30, 6:02 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Wright	58 min
Jun 30, 6:03 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Bourbon	34 min
Jun 30, 6:14 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Linn	46 min
Jun 30, 6:21 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Vernon	69 min
Jun 30, 6:33 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Christian, Douglas	62 min
Jun 30, 6:57 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	St. Clair	63 min
Jun 30, 7:03 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Wright	42 min
Jun 30, 7:31 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	ICT	Neosho, Wilson	59 min
Jun 30, 7:33 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Allen	33 min
Jun 30, 7:47 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Linn, Miami	43 min
Jun 30, 8:29 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	ICT	Labette, Neosho	46 min
Jun 30, 8:30 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Linn, Miami	45 min
Jun 30, 8:30 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	SGF	Cherokee, Crawford	75 min
Jun 30, 9:22 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Allen	53 min
Jun 30, 9:38 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	SGF	Cherokee	67 min
Jun 30, 9:48 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Neosho	44 min
Jun 30, 9:58 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Crawford	47 min
Jun 30, 10:15 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Jasper	26 min
Jun 30, 10:36 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Cherokee	40 min
Jun 30, 10:42 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Crawford	37 min
Jun 30, 10:43 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	SGF	Newton	62 min
Jun 30, 10:55 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Jasper	31 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

Springfield, MO (KSGF), launched 12:00Z, 9.6 hours before the alert went out and 95 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: 1346 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -72 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1541 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 13 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 27 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 13 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 29, 10:28 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Atchison, Brown, Clay, Cloud, Doniphan, Jackson and 8 more	62 min
Jun 30, 12:46 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Anderson, Atchison, Brown, Chase, Clay, Cloud and 35 more	119 min
Jun 30, 1:40 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	Allen, Anderson, Atchison, Barton, Butler, Chase and 35 more	7 hr
Jun 30, 3:28 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Barber, Barton, Clark, Comanche, Edwards, Finney and 16 more	2 hr
Jun 30, 5:45 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Allen, Anderson, Barber, Bourbon, Butler, Chase and 32 more	90 min
Jun 30, 2:43 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Bollinger, Butler, Cape Girardeau, Carter, Cedar, Christian and 29 more	62 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.