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Tornado Watch 420

June 6, 20055 states

The Storm Prediction Center issued this tornado watch at Jun 6, 2005, 2:00 PM MDT for 5 states. It was in force for 8 hr.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued: Jun 6, 2005, 2:00 PM MDT (20:00 UTC)
Expired: Jun 6, 2005, 10:00 PM MDT
In force: 8 hr
Issued by: the Storm Prediction Center

All 47 counties

Phillips County, CO, Sedgwick County, CO, Yuma County, CO, Cheyenne County, KS, Decatur County, KS, Gove County, KS, Graham County, KS, Logan County, KS, Norton County, KS, Rawlins County, KS, Sheridan County, KS, Sherman County, KS, Thomas County, KS, Trego County, KS, Wallace County, KS, Carter County, MT, Arthur County, NE, Box Butte County, NE, Chase County, NE, Cherry County, NE, Dawes County, NE, Deuel County, NE, Dundy County, NE, Frontier County, NE, Garden County, NE, Grant County, NE, Hayes County, NE, Hitchcock County, NE, Hooker County, NE, Keith County, NE, Lincoln County, NE, McPherson County, NE, Morrill County, NE, Perkins County, NE, Red Willow County, NE, Sheridan County, NE, Bennett County, SD, Butte County, SD, Custer County, SD, Fall River County, SD, Harding County, SD, Jackson County, SD, Lawrence County, SD, Meade County, SD, Oglala Lakota County, SD, Pennington County, SD, Perkins County, SD

The radar

The Rapid City radar (KUDX), 134 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:59 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

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 6, 3:55 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Arthur, Keith	65 min
Jun 6, 3:58 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Sherman, Thomas	47 min
Jun 6, 4:18 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Rawlins	27 min
Jun 6, 4:36 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BYZ	Carter	24 min
Jun 6, 4:39 PM MDT	Tornado Warning	LBF	Arthur	36 min
Jun 6, 4:44 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Rawlins	61 min
Jun 6, 4:52 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Hitchcock	53 min
Jun 6, 4:56 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BYZ	Carter	64 min
Jun 6, 5:13 PM MDT	Tornado Warning	LBF	Arthur, Grant, Hooker	32 min
Jun 6, 5:21 PM MDT	Tornado Warning	LBF	McPherson	39 min
Jun 6, 5:42 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Rawlins	43 min
Jun 6, 5:43 PM MDT	Tornado Warning	BYZ	Carter, Fallon	32 min
Jun 6, 5:43 PM MDT	Tornado Warning	LBF	Hooker	32 min
Jun 6, 5:58 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	McPherson	62 min
Jun 6, 6:04 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Decatur	26 min
Jun 6, 6:09 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	UNR	Custer, Meade, Pennington	70 min
Jun 6, 6:15 PM MDT	Tornado Warning	BYZ	Carter, Fallon	45 min
Jun 6, 6:15 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Cherry, Hooker	60 min
Jun 6, 7:06 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Red Willow	54 min
Jun 6, 7:10 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	UNR	Butte	35 min
Jun 6, 7:14 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Cherry, Hooker	61 min
Jun 6, 7:22 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CYS	Box Butte	54 min
Jun 6, 7:28 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Frontier	62 min
Jun 6, 7:31 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	UNR	Pennington	53 min
Jun 6, 8:14 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Cherry	61 min
Jun 6, 8:32 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	UNR	Meade, Perkins, Ziebach	59 min
Jun 6, 8:33 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Frontier	49 min
Jun 6, 9:12 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	UNR	Bennett, Jackson	63 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

Rapid City, SD (KUNR), launched 12:00Z, 8.0 hours before the alert went out and 130 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: 23 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -280 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 2499 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 29 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 33 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 66 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 6, 1:22 PM MDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Adams, Arapahoe, Cheyenne, Elbert, Kiowa, Kit Carson and 9 more	113 min
Jun 6, 4:58 PM MDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Phillips, Sedgwick	92 min
Jun 6, 1:16 AM MDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Barber, Butler, Chautauqua, Cherokee, Comanche, Cowley and 13 more	89 min
Jun 6, 11:29 AM MDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Big Horn, Powder River	2 hr
Jun 6, 12:20 PM MDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	Big Horn, Carter, Custer, Fallon, Powder River, Rosebud and 2 more	6 hr
Jun 6, 2:15 PM MDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Dawson, Garfield, McCone, Prairie, Richland, Roosevelt and 2 more	2 hr
Jun 6, 4:15 PM MDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	Dawson, Garfield, McCone, Phillips, Prairie, Richland and 3 more	7 hr
Jun 6, 5:28 PM MDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Carter, Custer, Fallon, Powder River, Rosebud	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.