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Tornado Watch 141

April 10, 200529 counties in Kansas; 5 counties in Oklahoma

The Storm Prediction Center issued this tornado watch at Apr 10, 2005, 1:10 PM CDT for 29 counties in Kansas; 5 counties in Oklahoma. It was in force for 7 hr.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued
Apr 10, 2005, 1:10 PM CDT (18:10 UTC)
Expired
Apr 10, 2005, 8:00 PM CDT
In force
7 hr
Issued by
the Storm Prediction Center
All 34 counties

Barber County, KS, Barton County, KS, Comanche County, KS, Cowley County, KS, Edwards County, KS, Ellis County, KS, Finney County, KS, Ford County, KS, Gove County, KS, Graham County, KS, Gray County, KS, Harper County, KS, Hodgeman County, KS, Kingman County, KS, Kiowa County, KS, Lane County, KS, Ness County, KS, Pawnee County, KS, Pratt County, KS, Reno County, KS, Rice County, KS, Rush County, KS, Scott County, KS, Sedgwick County, KS, Sheridan County, KS, Stafford County, KS, Sumner County, KS, Trego County, KS, Wichita County, KS, Alfalfa County, OK, Garfield County, OK, Grant County, OK, Kay County, OK, Woods County, OK

The radar

The Dodge City radar (KDDC), 85 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:12 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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Warnings issued inside it

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Apr 10, 2:01 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGLDSheridan44 min
Apr 10, 2:10 PM CDTTornado WarningDDCLane, Scott35 min
Apr 10, 3:31 PM CDTTornado WarningGLDGove44 min
Apr 10, 3:42 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCNess48 min
Apr 10, 3:52 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCTrego53 min
Apr 10, 4:02 PM CDTTornado WarningGLDSheridan43 min
Apr 10, 4:08 PM CDTTornado WarningDDCTrego37 min
Apr 10, 4:13 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCTrego66 min
Apr 10, 4:38 PM CDTTornado WarningDDCTrego67 min
Apr 10, 4:41 PM CDTTornado WarningDDCEllis, Rush66 min
Apr 10, 4:45 PM CDTTornado WarningDDCTrego15 min
Apr 10, 4:45 PM CDTTornado WarningGLDGraham60 min
Apr 10, 5:21 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCEllis, Rush39 min
Apr 10, 5:30 PM CDTTornado WarningDDCStafford45 min
Apr 10, 5:36 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningICTBarton39 min
Apr 10, 5:43 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCEllis49 min
Apr 10, 5:46 PM CDTTornado WarningDDCEllis, Rush29 min
Apr 10, 5:48 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGLDGraham42 min
Apr 10, 5:58 PM CDTTornado WarningDDCEllis33 min
Apr 10, 6:12 PM CDTTornado WarningICTBarton48 min
Apr 10, 6:17 PM CDTTornado WarningDDCStafford43 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 12:00Z, 6.2 hours before the alert went out and 80 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 12:00Z on 2005-04-10Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1 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 12:00Z on 2005-04-10The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 135 square meters per square second.1939587897Sfc1 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
1 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
1736 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
60 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
135 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
63 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.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Apr 10, 1:39 AM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCBarber, Clark, Comanche66 min
Apr 10, 12:27 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCBarber, Barton, Comanche, Edwards, Ellis, Finney and 15 more93 min
Apr 10, 1:07 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCButler, Clay, Cloud, Dickinson, Ellsworth, Geary and 19 more113 min
Apr 10, 1:40 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPCBrown, Clay, Cloud, Dickinson, Ellsworth, Geary and 23 more6 hr
Apr 10, 3:31 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCBrown, Clay, Cloud, Dickinson, Ellsworth, Geary and 22 more89 min
Apr 10, 3:38 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCBarber, Barton, Comanche, Cowley, Edwards, Ellis and 22 more97 min
Apr 10, 6:35 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCBarber, Barton, Butler, Clay, Cloud, Cowley and 25 more5 hr
Apr 10, 3:51 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCCanadian, Carter, Cleveland, Garvin, Grady, Jefferson and 12 more54 min
Apr 10, 5:25 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPCAtoka, Bryan, Canadian, Carter, Choctaw, Cleveland and 23 more6 hr

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.