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Tornado Watch 475
The Storm Prediction Center issued this tornado watch at Jun 13, 2005, 3:55 PM CDT for 14 counties in Kansas; 35 counties in Missouri. It was in force for 7 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 13, 2005, 3:55 PM CDT (20:55 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 13, 2005, 11:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 7 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
All 49 counties
Anderson County, KS, Atchison County, KS, Coffey County, KS, Doniphan County, KS, Douglas County, KS, Franklin County, KS, Jefferson County, KS, Johnson County, KS, Leavenworth County, KS, Linn County, KS, Miami County, KS, Osage County, KS, Shawnee County, KS, Wyandotte County, KS, Adair County, MO, Andrew County, MO, Bates County, MO, Benton County, MO, Buchanan County, MO, Caldwell County, MO, Carroll County, MO, Cass County, MO, Chariton County, MO, Clay County, MO, Clinton County, MO, Daviess County, MO, DeKalb County, MO, Gentry County, MO, Grundy County, MO, Harrison County, MO, Henry County, MO, Holt County, MO, Jackson County, MO, Johnson County, MO, Lafayette County, MO, Linn County, MO, Livingston County, MO, Macon County, MO, Mercer County, MO, Nodaway County, MO, Pettis County, MO, Platte County, MO, Putnam County, MO, Ray County, MO, Saline County, MO, Schuyler County, MO, Scotland County, MO, Sullivan County, MO, Worth County, MO
The radar
The Pleasant Hill radar (KEAX), 45 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:55 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.
Discussions around it
SPC mesoscale discussions over the same counties from four hours before the watch to its end.
The nearest sounding before it
Topeka, KS (KTOP), launched 12:00Z, 8.9 hours before the alert went out and 96 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
- 28 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -258 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 986 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 63 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 262 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 263 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000
WWUS20 KWNS 132051
SEL5
SPC WW 132051
KSZ000-MOZ000-140400-
URGENT - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
TORNADO WATCH NUMBER 475
NWS STORM PREDICTION CENTER NORMAN OK
355 PM CDT MON JUN 13 2005
THE NWS STORM PREDICTION CENTER HAS ISSUED A
TORNADO WATCH FOR PORTIONS OF
NORTHEASTERN KANSAS
NORTHERN AND WESTERN MISSOURI
EFFECTIVE THIS MONDAY AFTERNOON AND EVENING FROM 355 PM UNTIL 1100
PM CDT.
TORNADOES...HAIL TO 2 INCHES IN DIAMETER...THUNDERSTORM WIND GUSTS
TO 80 MPH...AND DANGEROUS LIGHTNING ARE POSSIBLE IN THESE AREAS.
THE TORNADO WATCH AREA IS APPROXIMATELY ALONG AND 80 STATUTE MILES
EAST AND WEST OF A LINE FROM 25 MILES NORTH NORTHEAST OF SPICKARD
MISSOURI TO 45 MILES SOUTH OF OLATHE KANSAS. FOR A COMPLETE
DEPICTION OF THE WATCH SEE THE ASSOCIATED WATCH OUTLINE UPDATE
(WOUS64 KWNS WOU5).
REMEMBER...A TORNADO WATCH MEANS CONDITIONS ARE FAVORABLE FOR
TORNADOES AND SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS IN AND CLOSE TO THE WATCH AREA.
PERSONS IN THESE AREAS SHOULD BE ON THE LOOKOUT FOR THREATENING
WEATHER CONDITIONS AND LISTEN FOR LATER STATEMENTS AND POSSIBLE
WARNINGS.
OTHER WATCH INFORMATION...CONTINUE...WW 471...WW 472...WW 473...WW
474...
DISCUSSION...CHANCE FOR ISOLATED SUPERCELLS ACROSS WW AREA LATER
THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING AS FORCING INCREASES ON FRINGE OF POTENT
NEB UPR VORT. LONG...SLIGHTLY HOOKED HODOGRAPHS SUGGEST POTENTIAL
FOR TORNADOES IN ADDITION TO HIGH WIND/HAIL.
AVIATION...TORNADOES AND A FEW SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WITH HAIL
SURFACE AND ALOFT TO 2 INCHES. EXTREME TURBULENCE AND SURFACE WIND
GUSTS TO 70 KNOTS. A FEW CUMULONIMBI WITH MAXIMUM TOPS TO 500.
MEAN STORM MOTION VECTOR 24045.
...CORFIDI
403,0920 381,0931 381,0961 403,0950SPC that day
Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 12, 11:29 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Allen, Anderson, Barber, Butler, Chase, Chautauqua and 26 more | 2 hr |
| Jun 13, 2:34 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Cherokee, Crawford, Labette | 116 min |
| Jun 13, 2:55 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Cherokee, Labette | 8 hr |
| Jun 13, 1:52 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Camden, Carter, Crawford, Dallas, Dent, Douglas and 16 more | 83 min |
| Jun 13, 4:13 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Adair, Clark, Knox, Lewis, Lincoln, Marion and 8 more | 2 hr |
| Jun 13, 12:41 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Bollinger, Cape Girardeau, Mississippi, Perry, Scott, Stoddard | 2 hr |
| Jun 13, 1:10 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Bollinger, Butler, Cape Girardeau, Carter, Iron, Jefferson and 12 more | 8 hr |
| Jun 13, 1:56 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Andrew, Atchison, Gentry, Harrison, Holt, Nodaway and 1 more | 94 min |
| Jun 13, 4:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Lincoln, Saint Charles | 7 hr |
| Jun 13, 5:15 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Saint Charles, Saint Louis, City of Saint Louis | 2 hr |
| Jun 13, 5:41 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Barry, McDonald | 2 hr |
| Jun 13, 6:21 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Adair, Andrew, Buchanan, Daviess, DeKalb, Gentry and 8 more | 84 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.