Alert archive / Kansas / Severe Thunderstorm Watches in 2006
Severe Thunderstorm Watch 545
The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at Jun 22, 2006, 3:32 PM CDT for 29 counties in Kansas. It was in force for 6 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 22, 2006, 3:32 PM CDT (20:32 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 22, 2006, 9:35 PM CDT
- In force
- 6 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
- Largest hail expected
- 2 in
- Strongest gust expected
- 60 kt
All 29 counties
Clark County, KS, Comanche County, KS, Edwards County, KS, Ellis County, KS, Finney County, KS, Ford County, KS, Gove County, KS, Grant County, KS, Gray County, KS, Greeley County, KS, Hamilton County, KS, Haskell County, KS, Hodgeman County, KS, Kearny County, KS, Kiowa County, KS, Lane County, KS, Logan County, KS, Meade County, KS, Morton County, KS, Ness County, KS, Pawnee County, KS, Rush County, KS, Scott County, KS, Seward County, KS, Stanton County, KS, Stevens County, KS, Trego County, KS, Wallace County, KS, Wichita County, KS
The radar
The Dodge City radar (KDDC), 90 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:32 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.
What SPC expected
The probabilities SPC published with the watch, for the watch area over its life.
- Two or more tornadoes
- 20%
- One or more EF2 to EF5 tornadoes
- 5%
- Ten or more severe wind reports
- 50%
- One or more gusts of 65 knots or more
- 30%
- Ten or more severe hail reports
- 50%
- One or more hailstones of 2 inches or more
- 20%
- Six or more combined severe hail and wind reports
- 70%
Warnings issued inside it
25 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 22, 3:42 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Gove, Logan | 63 min |
| Jun 22, 4:02 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | GLD | Logan | 24 min |
| Jun 22, 4:03 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Trego | 42 min |
| Jun 22, 4:07 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Wallace | 24 min |
| Jun 22, 4:31 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Rush | 44 min |
| Jun 22, 4:43 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Trego | 47 min |
| Jun 22, 4:46 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DDC | Rush | 44 min |
| Jun 22, 4:46 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Gove | 41 min |
| Jun 22, 4:48 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Greeley, Wallace | 57 min |
| Jun 22, 4:50 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | GLD | Gove | 3 hr |
| Jun 22, 4:59 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Lane | 46 min |
| Jun 22, 5:31 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Rush | 44 min |
| Jun 22, 5:37 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Ness | 38 min |
| Jun 22, 5:55 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Greeley | 42 min |
| Jun 22, 5:56 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Hodgeman | 49 min |
| Jun 22, 6:11 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Pawnee, Rush | 49 min |
| Jun 22, 6:16 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Ness | 44 min |
| Jun 22, 6:22 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Wichita | 23 min |
| Jun 22, 6:45 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Hodgeman | 23 min |
| Jun 22, 6:58 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Pawnee | 47 min |
| Jun 22, 7:06 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Grant | 39 min |
| Jun 22, 7:48 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Morton | 42 min |
| Jun 22, 8:09 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Stevens | 51 min |
| Jun 22, 8:25 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Seward | 29 min |
| Jun 22, 8:42 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Comanche | 48 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 95 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
- 48 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -323 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1403 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 28 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 93 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 175 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 21, 7:46 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Barber, Barton, Brown, Chase, Clark, Clay and 57 more | 119 min |
| Jun 21, 7:52 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Cheyenne, Decatur, Gove, Graham, Greeley, Logan and 7 more | 6 hr |
| Jun 21, 9:09 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Cheyenne, Decatur, Gove, Graham, Greeley, Lane and 11 more | 2 hr |
| Jun 21, 9:45 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Barber, Clark, Comanche, Finney, Ford, Grant and 9 more | 2 hr |
| Jun 21, 10:45 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Allen, Anderson, Atchison, Barber, Barton, Bourbon and 52 more | 2 hr |
| Jun 22, 3:20 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Clark, Edwards, Finney, Ford, Gove, Grant and 20 more | 85 min |
| Jun 22, 5:34 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Clark, Edwards, Finney, Ford, Grant, Gray and 13 more | 86 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.