Alert archive / Texas / Severe Thunderstorm Watches in 2006
Severe Thunderstorm Watch 486
The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at Jun 15, 2006, 5:15 PM CDT for 4 states. It was in force for 6 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 15, 2006, 5:15 PM CDT (22:15 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 15, 2006, 11:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 6 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
All 35 counties
Finney County, KS, Ford County, KS, Grant County, KS, Gray County, KS, Haskell County, KS, Hodgeman County, KS, Lane County, KS, Meade County, KS, Ness County, KS, Scott County, KS, Seward County, KS, Stevens County, KS, Trego County, KS, Harding County, NM, Quay County, NM, Union County, NM, Beaver County, OK, Cimarron County, OK, Texas County, OK, Armstrong County, TX, Carson County, TX, Dallam County, TX, Deaf Smith County, TX, Donley County, TX, Gray County, TX, Hansford County, TX, Hartley County, TX, Hutchinson County, TX, Moore County, TX, Ochiltree County, TX, Oldham County, TX, Potter County, TX, Randall County, TX, Roberts County, TX, Sherman County, TX
The radar
The Dodge City radar (KDDC), 185 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:17 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 15, 7:04 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AMA | Moore | 56 min |
| Jun 15, 7:24 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABQ | Union | 51 min |
| Jun 15, 7:28 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Scott | 47 min |
| Jun 15, 10:05 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Morton, Stevens | 29 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, 10.3 hours before the alert went out and 192 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 2487 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 5 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 123 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 425 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 15, 2:44 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Cheyenne, Kiowa, Kit Carson, Phillips, Prowers, Sedgwick and 1 more | 91 min |
| Jun 15, 3:18 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Baca, Bent, Cheyenne, Kiowa, Kit Carson, Prowers and 1 more | 8 hr |
| Jun 15, 6:47 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Phillips, Sedgwick | 58 min |
| Jun 15, 4:58 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Grant, Gray, Haskell, Seward, Stevens | 62 min |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Watches in Texas, 2006Severe Thunderstorm Watches in Kansas, 2006Severe Thunderstorm Watches in New Mexico, 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.