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Tornado Watch 244
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.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 24, 3:16 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Garfield, Kingfisher | 59 min |
| Apr 24, 3:30 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Grant | 60 min |
| Apr 24, 4:03 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Lincoln | 42 min |
| Apr 24, 4:07 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Logan | 38 min |
| Apr 24, 4:09 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Noble | 66 min |
| Apr 24, 4:11 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Garfield | 34 min |
| Apr 24, 4:19 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Payne | 56 min |
| Apr 24, 4:20 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Sedgwick, Sumner | 55 min |
| Apr 24, 4:23 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Grant, Kay | 67 min |
| Apr 24, 4:27 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Sumner | 63 min |
| Apr 24, 4:50 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Osage, Pawnee | 70 min |
| Apr 24, 5:02 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Butler | 58 min |
| Apr 24, 5:06 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Cowley | 34 min |
| Apr 24, 5:08 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Noble | 52 min |
| Apr 24, 5:12 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Payne | 48 min |
| Apr 24, 5:15 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ICT | Sedgwick, Sumner | 30 min |
| Apr 24, 5:26 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Kay | 64 min |
| Apr 24, 5:36 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Sedgwick | 54 min |
| Apr 24, 5:39 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Caddo, Kiowa | 51 min |
| Apr 24, 5:42 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Tillman | 48 min |
| Apr 24, 5:54 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Butler, Greenwood | 66 min |
| Apr 24, 5:56 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Payne | 34 min |
| Apr 24, 5:56 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Creek, Pawnee | 79 min |
| Apr 24, 6:01 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Comanche | 59 min |
| Apr 24, 6:03 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Butler | 26 min |
| Apr 24, 6:23 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Tillman | 52 min |
| Apr 24, 6:27 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Caddo | 48 min |
| Apr 24, 6:41 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Canadian | 64 min |
| Apr 24, 6:44 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Osage | 76 min |
| Apr 24, 6:50 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Cotton | 55 min |
| Apr 24, 6:54 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Comanche | 51 min |
| Apr 24, 7:01 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Butler | 18 min |
| Apr 24, 7:14 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Garfield, Logan, Noble | 46 min |
| Apr 24, 7:14 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Caddo, Grady | 46 min |
| Apr 24, 7:16 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Osage, Pawnee | 59 min |
| Apr 24, 7:20 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | OUN | Canadian | 25 min |
| Apr 24, 7:38 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Reno | 26 min |
| Apr 24, 7:38 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Comanche | 37 min |
| Apr 24, 7:40 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Cotton | 35 min |
| Apr 24, 7:40 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | OUN | Logan | 35 min |
| Apr 24, 7:43 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | OUN | Canadian | 32 min |
| Apr 24, 7:47 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Payne | 58 min |
| Apr 24, 7:54 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Grady | 51 min |
| Apr 24, 8:06 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Oklahoma | 39 min |
| Apr 24, 8:10 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Stephens | 65 min |
| Apr 24, 8:13 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Canadian | 47 min |
| Apr 24, 8:14 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Creek, Osage, Pawnee | 61 min |
| Apr 24, 8:15 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | OUN | Stephens | 30 min |
| Apr 24, 8:22 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Cotton | 38 min |
| Apr 24, 8:31 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | OUN | Cotton | 29 min |
| Apr 24, 8:35 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Cleveland, McClain | 27 min |
| Apr 24, 8:40 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Garvin, Grady, Stephens | 65 min |
| Apr 24, 8:42 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Payne | 63 min |
| Apr 24, 8:59 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Cotton, Jefferson | 61 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.
- 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
SPC that day
Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 23, 7:58 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Anderson, Coffey, Dickinson, Franklin, Geary, Lincoln and 8 more | 92 min |
| Apr 23, 9:26 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Anderson, Coffey, Dickinson, Franklin, Geary, Lincoln and 8 more | 64 min |
| Apr 23, 9:47 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Anderson, Coffey, Dickinson, Franklin, Geary, Lincoln and 8 more | 88 min |
| Apr 23, 10:10 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Cheyenne, Decatur, Rawlins, Sheridan, Thomas | 95 min |
| Apr 23, 10:35 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Cheyenne, Decatur, Gove, Graham, Logan, Norton and 5 more | 4 hr |
| Apr 24, 1:27 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Allen, Barber, Butler, Chase, Chautauqua, Cowley and 16 more | 2 hr |
| Apr 24, 2:05 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Cheyenne, Decatur, Graham, Logan, Norton, Rawlins and 4 more | 85 min |
| Apr 24, 7:32 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Allen, Butler, Chautauqua, Cowley, Elk, Greenwood and 5 more | 88 min |
| Apr 24, 7:49 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Allen, Butler, Chautauqua, Cowley, Elk, Greenwood and 5 more | 5 hr |
| Apr 24, 1:13 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Barber, Comanche | 2 hr |
| Apr 24, 3:18 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Anderson, Atchison, Brown, Chase, Clay, Cloud and 26 more | 117 min |
| Apr 24, 5:30 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Allen, Anderson, Bourbon, Chase, Chautauqua, Cherokee and 19 more | 7 hr |
| Apr 24, 6:17 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Butler, Cowley, Harper, Harvey, Kingman, Sedgwick and 1 more | 88 min |
| Apr 24, 11:08 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Creek, Kay, Mayes, Noble, Nowata, Osage and 5 more | 97 min |
| Apr 24, 12:32 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Adair, Cherokee, Craig, Creek, Delaware, Mayes and 10 more | 5 hr |
| Apr 24, 2:14 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Adair, Cherokee, Haskell, LeFlore, Muskogee, Sequoyah and 1 more | 61 min |
| Apr 24, 2:29 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Haskell, LeFlore, Sequoyah | 5 hr |
| Apr 24, 3:09 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Alfalfa, Garfield | 66 min |
| Apr 24, 6:08 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | LeFlore | 67 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.