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Tornado Watch 465

June 12, 200537 counties in Kansas; Holt County, Missouri; 13 counties in Oklahoma

The Storm Prediction Center issued this tornado watch at Jun 12, 2005, 1:20 PM CDT for 37 counties in Kansas; Holt County, Missouri; 13 counties in Oklahoma. It was in force for 9 hr.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued
Jun 12, 2005, 1:20 PM CDT (18:20 UTC)
Expired
Jun 12, 2005, 10:00 PM CDT
In force
9 hr
Issued by
the Storm Prediction Center
All 51 counties

Allen County, KS, Anderson County, KS, Atchison County, KS, Brown County, KS, Butler County, KS, Chase County, KS, Chautauqua County, KS, Coffey County, KS, Cowley County, KS, Dickinson County, KS, Doniphan County, KS, Douglas County, KS, Elk County, KS, Franklin County, KS, Geary County, KS, Greenwood County, KS, Harper County, KS, Harvey County, KS, Jackson County, KS, Jefferson County, KS, Labette County, KS, Lyon County, KS, Marion County, KS, McPherson County, KS, Montgomery County, KS, Morris County, KS, Neosho County, KS, Osage County, KS, Pottawatomie County, KS, Reno County, KS, Riley County, KS, Sedgwick County, KS, Shawnee County, KS, Sumner County, KS, Wabaunsee County, KS, Wilson County, KS, Woodson County, KS, Holt County, MO, Canadian County, OK, Garfield County, OK, Grant County, OK, Kay County, OK, Kingfisher County, OK, Logan County, OK, Noble County, OK, Nowata County, OK, Oklahoma County, OK, Osage County, OK, Pawnee County, OK, Payne County, OK, Washington County, OK

The radar

The Wichita radar (KICT), 52 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:23 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

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 12, 1:29 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningICTChautauqua46 min
Jun 12, 1:29 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOUNKay46 min
Jun 12, 1:31 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOUNNoble44 min
Jun 12, 1:45 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningICTChase, Greenwood45 min
Jun 12, 1:50 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTOPLyon40 min
Jun 12, 2:12 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOUNKay, Noble48 min
Jun 12, 2:24 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningICTGreenwood66 min
Jun 12, 2:28 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTOPLyon40 min
Jun 12, 2:32 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningICTElk, Wilson65 min
Jun 12, 2:36 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTSAOsage54 min
Jun 12, 2:40 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningTOPCoffey, Lyon, Osage3 hr
Jun 12, 2:48 PM CDTTornado WarningTSAOsage43 min
Jun 12, 2:58 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningICTButler, Chase6 hr
Jun 12, 2:59 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningICTChautauqua61 min
Jun 12, 3:08 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningICTWilson, Woodson67 min
Jun 12, 3:16 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTOPOsage35 min
Jun 12, 3:25 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTOPShawnee50 min
Jun 12, 3:28 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTSAOsage62 min
Jun 12, 3:37 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningTOPDouglas, Jefferson, Shawnee3 hr
Jun 12, 3:39 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTOPDouglas51 min
Jun 12, 3:47 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningTOPAnderson, Franklin3 hr
Jun 12, 3:54 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTOPJefferson51 min
Jun 12, 4:00 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningICTChautauqua, Elk, Montgomery, Wilson45 min
Jun 12, 4:22 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTSACreek, Pawnee30 min
Jun 12, 4:28 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTSAOsage62 min
Jun 12, 4:59 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTSAWashington61 min
Jun 12, 5:41 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTSAOsage, Pawnee64 min
Jun 12, 5:59 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTSAWashington49 min
Jun 12, 6:00 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOUNCanadian, Kingfisher45 min
Jun 12, 6:04 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTSANowata56 min
Jun 12, 6:38 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOUNCanadian, Kingfisher52 min
Jun 12, 7:16 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOUNCleveland, Logan, McClain, Oklahoma59 min
Jun 12, 7:30 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOUNCaddo, Canadian, Grady, Kingfisher45 min
Jun 12, 8:03 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOUNLincoln, Payne57 min
Jun 12, 8:10 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningICTButler, Chase5 hr

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 12:00Z, 6.3 hours before the alert went out and 146 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, Lamont, OK at 12:00Z on 2005-06-12Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 2 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, Lamont, OK at 12:00Z on 2005-06-12The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -1 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 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
2 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-367 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1323 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
34 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-1 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
40 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.5

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SPC that day

Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 11, 8:27 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCBarber, Cowley, Harper, Sumner33 min
Jun 11, 10:11 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCBarber, Comanche, Harper, Kingman64 min
Jun 12, 5:03 AM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCMeade, Seward, Stevens2 hr
Jun 12, 12:38 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCButler, Chautauqua, Cowley, Elk, Greenwood, Labette and 3 more67 min
Jun 12, 2:00 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCCheyenne, Greeley, Sherman, Wallace, Wichita7 hr
Jun 12, 3:02 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCBourbon, Cherokee, Crawford, Johnson, Linn, Miami58 min
Jun 12, 3:45 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPCBourbon, Cherokee, Crawford, Johnson, Leavenworth, Linn and 2 more7 hr
Jun 12, 3:47 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCGrant, Hamilton, Haskell, Kearny, Morton, Seward and 2 more88 min
Jun 12, 6:09 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCClark, Finney, Ford, Gove, Grant, Gray and 18 more96 min
Jun 12, 6:13 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCCherokee2 hr
Jun 12, 12:54 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCAdair, Chariton, Clark, Knox, Lewis, Linn and 7 more96 min
Jun 12, 5:30 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPCBeaver, Cimarron, Texas6 hr
Jun 12, 9:03 AM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCCotton, Jefferson, Tillman57 min
Jun 12, 10:08 AM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCBeckham, Blaine, Canadian, Custer, Dewey, Ellis and 8 more67 min
Jun 12, 11:35 AM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCGreer, Harmon85 min
Jun 12, 12:20 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCBeckham, Blaine, Caddo, Comanche, Cotton, Custer and 8 more10 hr
Jun 12, 3:29 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCBeckham, Blaine, Caddo, Comanche, Cotton, Custer and 8 more91 min
Jun 12, 5:41 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCCaddo, Canadian, Cleveland, Comanche, Cotton, Creek and 14 more2 hr
Jun 12, 6:05 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCAdair, Carter, Cherokee, Cleveland, Creek, Delaware and 20 more5 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.