Alert archive / Kansas / Severe Thunderstorm Watches in 2006
Severe Thunderstorm Watch 239
The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at Apr 23, 2006, 3:31 PM CDT for 23 counties in Kansas; 15 counties in Oklahoma; 16 counties in Texas. It was in force for 7 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Apr 23, 2006, 3:31 PM CDT (20:31 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 23, 2006, 11:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 7 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
All 54 counties
Barber County, KS, Barton County, KS, Clark County, KS, Comanche County, KS, Edwards County, KS, Ellis County, KS, Ellsworth County, KS, Ford County, KS, Gray County, KS, Hodgeman County, KS, Kiowa County, KS, Lane County, KS, Lincoln County, KS, Meade County, KS, Ness County, KS, Pawnee County, KS, Pratt County, KS, Rice County, KS, Rush County, KS, Russell County, KS, Saline County, KS, Stafford County, KS, Trego County, KS, Alfalfa County, OK, Beaver County, OK, Beckham County, OK, Custer County, OK, Dewey County, OK, Ellis County, OK, Greer County, OK, Harmon County, OK, Harper County, OK, Major County, OK, Roger Mills County, OK, Texas County, OK, Washita County, OK, Woods County, OK, Woodward County, OK, Armstrong County, TX, Carson County, TX, Collingsworth County, TX, Donley County, TX, Gray County, TX, Hansford County, TX, Hemphill County, TX, Hutchinson County, TX, Lipscomb County, TX, Moore County, TX, Ochiltree County, TX, Potter County, TX, Randall County, TX, Roberts County, TX, Sherman County, TX, Wheeler County, TX
The radar
The Dodge City radar (KDDC), 43 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:33 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
22 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 23, 5:02 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Ford | 43 min |
| Apr 23, 5:27 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Clark | 48 min |
| Apr 23, 5:30 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Ford | 45 min |
| Apr 23, 5:35 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AMA | Ochiltree | 40 min |
| Apr 23, 6:02 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Pawnee | 37 min |
| Apr 23, 6:04 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AMA | Lipscomb | 56 min |
| Apr 23, 6:05 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AMA | Hemphill | 40 min |
| Apr 23, 6:09 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Edwards, Pawnee | 29 min |
| Apr 23, 6:15 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Comanche, Kiowa | 45 min |
| Apr 23, 6:33 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Ellis | 42 min |
| Apr 23, 6:43 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AMA | Hemphill | 34 min |
| Apr 23, 6:56 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Clark, Comanche | 64 min |
| Apr 23, 7:05 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Barber, Pratt | 45 min |
| Apr 23, 7:12 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Ellis | 48 min |
| Apr 23, 7:24 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Lincoln | 66 min |
| Apr 23, 7:27 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Dewey, Woodward | 48 min |
| Apr 23, 7:27 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Dewey, Woodward | 48 min |
| Apr 23, 7:44 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Harvey, McPherson, Reno, Rice | 46 min |
| Apr 23, 7:46 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Clark, Ford, Meade | 34 min |
| Apr 23, 7:58 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Saline | 47 min |
| Apr 23, 8:14 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ICT | Saline | 32 min |
| Apr 23, 8:23 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Kiowa | 31 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, 8.5 hours before the alert went out and 43 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
- 18 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -536 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 2413 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 3 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -71 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 75 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
SPC that day
Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 22, 9:44 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Anderson, Atchison, Chase, Clay, Coffey, Dickinson and 17 more | 2 hr |
| Apr 23, 3:14 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Finney, Ford, Gove, Graham, Gray, Haskell and 9 more | 2 hr |
| Apr 23, 5:12 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Allen, Anderson, Bourbon, Butler, Chase, Cherokee and 28 more | 93 min |
| Apr 23, 6:16 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Allen, Anderson, Bourbon, Butler, Chase, Chautauqua and 40 more | 7 hr |
| Apr 23, 2:12 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Andrews, Borden, Crane, Dawson, Ector, Gaines and 7 more | 3 hr |
| Apr 23, 6:46 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Borden, Crosby, Dickens, Floyd, Garza, Hale and 9 more | 89 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.