Alert archive / Kansas / Tornado Watches in 2005
Tornado Watch 489
The Storm Prediction Center issued this tornado watch at Jun 16, 2005, 4:15 PM MDT for Cheyenne County, Kit Carson County, Yuma County, Colorado; 21 counties in Kansas; Dundy County, Hitchcock County, Nebraska. It was in force for 8 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 16, 2005, 4:15 PM MDT (22:15 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 17, 2005, 12:00 AM MDT
- In force
- 8 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
All 26 counties
Cheyenne County, CO, Kit Carson County, CO, Yuma County, CO, Cheyenne County, KS, Decatur County, KS, Ellis County, KS, Gove County, KS, Graham County, KS, Lane County, KS, Logan County, KS, Ness County, KS, Norton County, KS, Pawnee County, KS, Phillips County, KS, Rawlins County, KS, Rooks County, KS, Rush County, KS, Scott County, KS, Sheridan County, KS, Sherman County, KS, Thomas County, KS, Trego County, KS, Wallace County, KS, Wichita County, KS, Dundy County, NE, Hitchcock County, NE
The radar
The Goodland radar (KGLD), 36 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:16 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
4 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 16, 6:12 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Kit Carson | 19 min |
| Jun 16, 9:05 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Finney, Kearny, Scott | 47 min |
| Jun 16, 10:54 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Phillips | 66 min |
| Jun 16, 10:54 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Phillips | 54 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
Denver, CO (KDNR), launched 12:00Z, 10.3 hours before the alert went out and 156 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
- 82 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -383 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 2252 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 22 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 24 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 41 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 162211
SEL9
SPC WW 162211
COZ000-KSZ000-NEZ000-170600-
URGENT - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
TORNADO WATCH NUMBER 489
NWS STORM PREDICTION CENTER NORMAN OK
515 PM CDT THU JUN 16 2005
THE NWS STORM PREDICTION CENTER HAS ISSUED A
TORNADO WATCH FOR PORTIONS OF
EASTERN COLORADO
NORTHWEST KANSAS
SOUTHWEST NEBRASKA
EFFECTIVE THIS THURSDAY AFTERNOON AND FRIDAY MORNING FROM 515 PM
UNTIL 100 AM CDT.
TORNADOES...HAIL TO 2 INCHES IN DIAMETER...THUNDERSTORM WIND GUSTS
TO 70 MPH...AND DANGEROUS LIGHTNING ARE POSSIBLE IN THESE AREAS.
THE TORNADO WATCH AREA IS APPROXIMATELY ALONG AND 65 STATUTE MILES
NORTH AND SOUTH OF A LINE FROM 70 MILES WEST NORTHWEST OF GOODLAND
KANSAS TO 45 MILES SOUTHEAST OF HILL CITY KANSAS. FOR A COMPLETE
DEPICTION OF THE WATCH SEE THE ASSOCIATED WATCH OUTLINE UPDATE
(WOUS64 KWNS WOU9).
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 487...WW 488...
DISCUSSION...THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED TO SPREAD EASTWARD OUT OF
COLORADO...AND DEVELOP ALONG BOUNDARY ACROSS WESTERN KS DURING THE
NEXT SEVERAL HOURS. STRONG INSTABILITY AND FAVORABLE SHEAR
PARAMETERS WILL PROMOTE A RISK OF SUPERCELL THUNDERSTORMS CAPABLE OF
DAMAGING WINDS AND HAIL. DESPITE HIGH LCL HEIGHTS...PRESENCE OF
MULTIPLE BOUNDARIES...HIGH INSTABILITY...AND BACKED LOW LEVEL WINDS
MAY POSE A RISK OF A FEW TORNADOES.
AVIATION...TORNADOES AND A FEW SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WITH HAIL
SURFACE AND ALOFT TO 2 INCHES. EXTREME TURBULENCE AND SURFACE WIND
GUSTS TO 60 KNOTS. A FEW CUMULONIMBI WITH MAXIMUM TOPS TO 500.
MEAN STORM MOTION VECTOR 29030.
...HART
404,1025 395,0991 375,0991 384,1025SPC that day
Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 16, 1:54 PM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Baca, Prowers | 3 hr |
| Jun 15, 6:01 PM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Barber, Barton, Clark, Comanche, Edwards, Ellis and 41 more | 89 min |
| Jun 15, 6:25 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Barber, Barton, Cloud, Comanche, Edwards, Ellis and 21 more | 8 hr |
| Jun 15, 9:14 PM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Barber, Harper, Kingman, Pratt, Sumner | 91 min |
| Jun 15, 9:45 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Butler, Chautauqua, Cowley, Elk, Greenwood, Harper and 1 more | 6 hr |
| Jun 16, 12:01 AM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Chautauqua, Cherokee, Elk, Labette, Montgomery, Neosho and 2 more | 89 min |
| Jun 16, 2:08 PM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Jewell, Phillips, Republic, Smith, Washington | 2 hr |
| Jun 16, 2:50 PM MDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Barber, Clark, Comanche, Edwards, Finney, Ford and 18 more | 6 hr |
| Jun 16, 5:21 PM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Atchison, Brown, Clay, Cloud, Dickinson, Geary and 16 more | 114 min |
| Jun 16, 5:33 PM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Barber, Clark, Comanche, Edwards, Finney, Ford and 18 more | 87 min |
| Jun 15, 6:15 PM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Banner, Box Butte, Cheyenne, Dawes, Garden, Kimball and 4 more | 2 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.