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Severe Thunderstorm Watch 415
The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at May 28, 2006, 3:51 PM CDT for 11 counties in Kansas; 13 counties in Oklahoma; 20 counties in Texas. It was in force for 6 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- May 28, 2006, 3:51 PM CDT (20:51 UTC)
- Expired
- May 28, 2006, 9:28 PM CDT
- In force
- 6 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
All 44 counties
Barber County, KS, Clark County, KS, Comanche County, KS, Edwards County, KS, Ford County, KS, Hodgeman County, KS, Kiowa County, KS, Meade County, KS, Pawnee County, KS, Pratt County, KS, Stafford County, KS, Beaver County, OK, Beckham County, OK, Custer County, OK, Dewey County, OK, Ellis County, OK, Greer County, OK, Harmon County, OK, Harper County, OK, Jackson County, OK, Roger Mills County, OK, Washita County, OK, Woods County, OK, Woodward County, OK, Briscoe County, TX, Childress County, TX, Collingsworth County, TX, Cottle County, TX, Crosby County, TX, Dickens County, TX, Donley County, TX, Floyd County, TX, Foard County, TX, Gray County, TX, Hall County, TX, Hardeman County, TX, Hemphill County, TX, King County, TX, Knox County, TX, Lipscomb County, TX, Motley County, TX, Ochiltree County, TX, Roberts County, TX, Wheeler County, TX
The radar
The Amarillo radar (KAMA), 122 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:53 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
5 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 28, 4:25 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AMA | Gray | 65 min |
| May 28, 5:46 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Floyd, Motley | 59 min |
| May 28, 5:54 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Hall | 66 min |
| May 28, 6:25 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AMA | Donley | 65 min |
| May 28, 7:28 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AMA | Donley | 34 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
Amarillo Airport, TX (KAMA), launched 12:00Z, 8.9 hours before the alert went out and 122 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
- 1037 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -178 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1542 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 13 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 143 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 203 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.9
SPC that day
Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 28, 3:11 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Ellis, Harper, Roger Mills | 2 hr |
| May 28, 3:06 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Brooks, Dimmit, Duval, Frio, Hidalgo, Jim Hogg and 14 more | 114 min |
| May 28, 5:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Borden, Coke, Concho, Crockett, Fisher, Garza and 21 more | 4 hr |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Watches in Texas, 2006Severe Thunderstorm Watches in Oklahoma, 2006Severe Thunderstorm Watches in Kansas, 2006Every severe thunderstorm watch in 2006
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.