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Tornado Watch 244

April 24, 200615 counties in Kansas; 33 counties in Oklahoma

The Storm Prediction Center issued this tornado watch at Apr 24, 2006, 1:36 PM CDT for 15 counties in Kansas; 33 counties in Oklahoma. It was in force for 7 hr.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued
Apr 24, 2006, 1:36 PM CDT (18:36 UTC)
Expired
Apr 24, 2006, 9:00 PM CDT
In force
7 hr
Issued by
the Storm Prediction Center
All 48 counties

Barber County, KS, Butler County, KS, Comanche County, KS, Cowley County, KS, Harper County, KS, Harvey County, KS, Kingman County, KS, Kiowa County, KS, McPherson County, KS, Pratt County, KS, Reno County, KS, Rice County, KS, Sedgwick County, KS, Stafford County, KS, Sumner County, KS, Alfalfa County, OK, Blaine County, OK, Caddo County, OK, Canadian County, OK, Carter County, OK, Cleveland County, OK, Comanche County, OK, Cotton County, OK, Custer County, OK, Dewey County, OK, Garfield County, OK, Garvin County, OK, Grady County, OK, Grant County, OK, Jefferson County, OK, Kay County, OK, Kingfisher County, OK, Kiowa County, OK, Lincoln County, OK, Logan County, OK, Major County, OK, McClain County, OK, Murray County, OK, Noble County, OK, Oklahoma County, OK, Osage County, OK, Pawnee County, OK, Payne County, OK, Pottawatomie County, OK, Stephens County, OK, Tillman County, OK, Washita County, OK, Woods County, OK

The radar

The Vance AFB radar (KVNX), 93 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:36 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

54 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Apr 24, 3:16 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOUNGarfield, Kingfisher59 min
Apr 24, 3:30 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOUNGrant60 min
Apr 24, 4:03 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOUNLincoln42 min
Apr 24, 4:07 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOUNLogan38 min
Apr 24, 4:09 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOUNNoble66 min
Apr 24, 4:11 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOUNGarfield34 min
Apr 24, 4:19 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOUNPayne56 min
Apr 24, 4:20 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningICTSedgwick, Sumner55 min
Apr 24, 4:23 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOUNGrant, Kay67 min
Apr 24, 4:27 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningICTSumner63 min
Apr 24, 4:50 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTSAOsage, Pawnee70 min
Apr 24, 5:02 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningICTButler58 min
Apr 24, 5:06 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningICTCowley34 min
Apr 24, 5:08 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOUNNoble52 min
Apr 24, 5:12 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOUNPayne48 min
Apr 24, 5:15 PM CDTTornado WarningICTSedgwick, Sumner30 min
Apr 24, 5:26 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOUNKay64 min
Apr 24, 5:36 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningICTSedgwick54 min
Apr 24, 5:39 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOUNCaddo, Kiowa51 min
Apr 24, 5:42 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOUNTillman48 min
Apr 24, 5:54 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningICTButler, Greenwood66 min
Apr 24, 5:56 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOUNPayne34 min
Apr 24, 5:56 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTSACreek, Pawnee79 min
Apr 24, 6:01 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOUNComanche59 min
Apr 24, 6:03 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningICTButler26 min
Apr 24, 6:23 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOUNTillman52 min
Apr 24, 6:27 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOUNCaddo48 min
Apr 24, 6:41 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOUNCanadian64 min
Apr 24, 6:44 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTSAOsage76 min
Apr 24, 6:50 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOUNCotton55 min
Apr 24, 6:54 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOUNComanche51 min
Apr 24, 7:01 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningICTButler18 min
Apr 24, 7:14 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOUNGarfield, Logan, Noble46 min
Apr 24, 7:14 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOUNCaddo, Grady46 min
Apr 24, 7:16 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTSAOsage, Pawnee59 min
Apr 24, 7:20 PM CDTTornado WarningOUNCanadian25 min
Apr 24, 7:38 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningICTReno26 min
Apr 24, 7:38 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOUNComanche37 min
Apr 24, 7:40 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOUNCotton35 min
Apr 24, 7:40 PM CDTTornado WarningOUNLogan35 min
Apr 24, 7:43 PM CDTTornado WarningOUNCanadian32 min
Apr 24, 7:47 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOUNPayne58 min
Apr 24, 7:54 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOUNGrady51 min
Apr 24, 8:06 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOUNOklahoma39 min
Apr 24, 8:10 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOUNStephens65 min
Apr 24, 8:13 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOUNCanadian47 min
Apr 24, 8:14 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTSACreek, Osage, Pawnee61 min
Apr 24, 8:15 PM CDTTornado WarningOUNStephens30 min
Apr 24, 8:22 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOUNCotton38 min
Apr 24, 8:31 PM CDTTornado WarningOUNCotton29 min
Apr 24, 8:35 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOUNCleveland, McClain27 min
Apr 24, 8:40 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOUNGarvin, Grady, Stephens65 min
Apr 24, 8:42 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOUNPayne63 min
Apr 24, 8:59 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOUNCotton, Jefferson61 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

Lamont, OK (KLMN), launched 12:00Z, 6.6 hours before the alert went out and 108 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.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Lamont, OK at 12:00Z on 2006-04-24Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1169 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Lamont, OK at 12:00Z on 2006-04-24The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 332 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.
Mixed-layer CAPE
1169 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-204 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
869 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
49 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
332 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
405 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
16.8

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SPC that day

Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Apr 23, 7:58 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCAnderson, Coffey, Dickinson, Franklin, Geary, Lincoln and 8 more92 min
Apr 23, 9:26 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCAnderson, Coffey, Dickinson, Franklin, Geary, Lincoln and 8 more64 min
Apr 23, 9:47 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCAnderson, Coffey, Dickinson, Franklin, Geary, Lincoln and 8 more88 min
Apr 23, 10:10 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCCheyenne, Decatur, Rawlins, Sheridan, Thomas95 min
Apr 23, 10:35 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPCCheyenne, Decatur, Gove, Graham, Logan, Norton and 5 more4 hr
Apr 24, 1:27 AM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCAllen, Barber, Butler, Chase, Chautauqua, Cowley and 16 more2 hr
Apr 24, 2:05 AM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCCheyenne, Decatur, Graham, Logan, Norton, Rawlins and 4 more85 min
Apr 24, 7:32 AM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCAllen, Butler, Chautauqua, Cowley, Elk, Greenwood and 5 more88 min
Apr 24, 7:49 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPCAllen, Butler, Chautauqua, Cowley, Elk, Greenwood and 5 more5 hr
Apr 24, 1:13 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCBarber, Comanche2 hr
Apr 24, 3:18 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCAnderson, Atchison, Brown, Chase, Clay, Cloud and 26 more117 min
Apr 24, 5:30 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPCAllen, Anderson, Bourbon, Chase, Chautauqua, Cherokee and 19 more7 hr
Apr 24, 6:17 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCButler, Cowley, Harper, Harvey, Kingman, Sedgwick and 1 more88 min
Apr 24, 11:08 AM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCCreek, Kay, Mayes, Noble, Nowata, Osage and 5 more97 min
Apr 24, 12:32 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPCAdair, Cherokee, Craig, Creek, Delaware, Mayes and 10 more5 hr
Apr 24, 2:14 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCAdair, Cherokee, Haskell, LeFlore, Muskogee, Sequoyah and 1 more61 min
Apr 24, 2:29 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPCHaskell, LeFlore, Sequoyah5 hr
Apr 24, 3:09 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCAlfalfa, Garfield66 min
Apr 24, 6:08 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCLeFlore67 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.