Alert archive / Kansas / Severe Thunderstorm Watches in 2006
Severe Thunderstorm Watch 69
The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at Mar 12, 2006, 5:04 AM CST for 44 counties in Kansas. It was in force for 7 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Mar 12, 2006, 5:04 AM CST (11:04 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 12, 2006, 12:00 PM CST
- In force
- 7 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
All 44 counties
Allen County, KS, Anderson County, KS, Barton County, KS, Butler County, KS, Chase County, KS, Chautauqua County, KS, Clay County, KS, Cloud County, KS, Coffey County, KS, Cowley County, KS, Dickinson County, KS, Douglas County, KS, Elk County, KS, Ellsworth County, KS, Franklin County, KS, Geary County, KS, Greenwood County, KS, Harper County, KS, Harvey County, KS, Jackson County, KS, Jefferson County, KS, Kingman County, KS, Labette County, KS, Lincoln County, KS, Lyon County, KS, Marion County, KS, McPherson County, KS, Montgomery County, KS, Morris County, KS, Neosho County, KS, Osage County, KS, Ottawa County, KS, Pottawatomie County, KS, Reno County, KS, Rice County, KS, Riley County, KS, Russell County, KS, Saline County, KS, Sedgwick County, KS, Shawnee County, KS, Sumner County, KS, Wabaunsee County, KS, Wilson County, KS, Woodson County, KS
The radar
The Wichita radar (KICT), 99 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 11:04 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
23 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 12, 5:06 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Butler | 42 min |
| Mar 12, 5:39 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Harvey, Sedgwick | 38 min |
| Mar 12, 5:59 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Butler, Chase | 54 min |
| Mar 12, 6:00 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Morris | 37 min |
| Mar 12, 6:41 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Lyon | 34 min |
| Mar 12, 6:51 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Clay | 24 min |
| Mar 12, 6:57 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Dickinson | 22 min |
| Mar 12, 7:07 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Marshall, Riley | 34 min |
| Mar 12, 7:12 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Osage, Shawnee | 48 min |
| Mar 12, 7:13 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Marion | 30 min |
| Mar 12, 7:21 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Morris, Wabaunsee | 39 min |
| Mar 12, 7:34 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Morris | 41 min |
| Mar 12, 7:53 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Douglas, Jefferson | 35 min |
| Mar 12, 7:58 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Marion | 27 min |
| Mar 12, 8:03 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Geary, Riley, Wabaunsee | 42 min |
| Mar 12, 8:03 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Jackson, Shawnee | 32 min |
| Mar 12, 8:07 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Dickinson, Geary, Morris | 38 min |
| Mar 12, 8:30 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Pottawatomie, Riley | 45 min |
| Mar 12, 8:38 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Jackson, Pottawatomie | 67 min |
| Mar 12, 8:49 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Lyon, Morris, Wabaunsee | 41 min |
| Mar 12, 9:23 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Jackson, Jefferson, Shawnee | 52 min |
| Mar 12, 9:25 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Brown, Jackson | 50 min |
| Mar 12, 10:15 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Jefferson | 13 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
Topeka, KS (KTOP), launched 00:00Z, 11.1 hours before the alert went out and 157 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
- 2050 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 91 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 93 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 185 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 12, 4:32 AM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Allen, Anderson, Bourbon, Butler, Chase, Chautauqua and 31 more | 88 min |
| Mar 12, 7:09 AM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Brown, Doniphan, Jewell, Johnson, Leavenworth, Marshall and 5 more | 96 min |
| Mar 12, 7:36 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Brown, Jewell, Marshall, Mitchell, Nemaha, Osborne and 3 more | 4 hr |
| Mar 12, 7:47 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Atchison, Doniphan, Johnson, Leavenworth, Linn, Miami and 1 more | 4 hr |
| Mar 12, 11:29 AM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Allen, Anderson, Bourbon, Butler, Chase, Chautauqua and 15 more | 2 hr |
| Mar 12, 11:49 AM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Allen, Anderson, Atchison, Bourbon, Brown, Butler and 33 more | 10 hr |
| Mar 12, 1:29 PM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Allen, Anderson, Atchison, Bourbon, Coffey, Crawford and 16 more | 91 min |
| Mar 12, 3:02 PM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Allen, Anderson, Bourbon, Coffey, Crawford, Douglas and 12 more | 88 min |
| Mar 12, 5:06 PM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Allen, Anderson, Bourbon, Crawford, Douglas, Franklin and 6 more | 84 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.