Alert archive / Kansas / Tornado Watches in 2006
Tornado Watch 773
The Storm Prediction Center issued this tornado watch at Sep 15, 2006, 9:37 PM CDT for 19 counties in Kansas. It was in force for 5 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Sep 15, 2006, 9:37 PM CDT (02:37 UTC)
- Expired
- Sep 16, 2006, 3:00 AM CDT
- In force
- 5 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
- Largest hail expected
- 2 in
- Strongest gust expected
- 60 kt
Counties Barber County, KS, Barton County, KS, Clark County, KS, Comanche County, KS, Edwards County, KS, Ellsworth County, KS, Ford County, KS, Harper County, KS, Harvey County, KS, Hodgeman County, KS, Kingman County, KS, Kiowa County, KS, McPherson County, KS, Pawnee County, KS, Pratt County, KS, Reno County, KS, Rice County, KS, Saline County, KS, Stafford County, KS
The radar
The Dodge City radar (KDDC), 62 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 02:39 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
- 40%
- One or more EF2 to EF5 tornadoes
- 20%
- Ten or more severe wind reports
- 20%
- One or more gusts of 65 knots or more
- 10%
- Ten or more severe hail reports
- 40%
- One or more hailstones of 2 inches or more
- 30%
- Six or more combined severe hail and wind reports
- 70%
Warnings issued inside it
11 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 15, 10:11 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Ford, Kiowa | 49 min |
| Sep 15, 10:24 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Edwards | 51 min |
| Sep 15, 10:33 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Ford | 23 min |
| Sep 15, 10:43 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DDC | Edwards | 47 min |
| Sep 15, 11:01 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DDC | Kiowa | 44 min |
| Sep 15, 11:19 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Edwards, Stafford | 56 min |
| Sep 15, 11:23 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DDC | Edwards, Kiowa, Pratt, Stafford | 52 min |
| Sep 15, 11:49 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Reno | 56 min |
| Sep 16, 12:32 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | McPherson, Reno, Rice | 58 min |
| Sep 16, 12:47 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Reno, Rice | 28 min |
| Sep 16, 1:34 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Reno | 41 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 00:00Z, 2.6 hours before the alert went out and 56 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
- 2048 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -13 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1526 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 53 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 265 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 313 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 1.8
- Supercell composite
- 13.5
SPC that day
Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 15, 7:26 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Barton, Clark, Comanche, Edwards, Ellis, Ellsworth and 14 more | 8 hr |
| Sep 15, 8:20 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Clay, Cloud, Graham, Jewell, Mitchell, Osborne and 6 more | 7 hr |
| Sep 16, 1:37 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Barton, Butler, Chase, Dickinson, Ellsworth, Geary and 10 more | 53 min |
| Sep 16, 3:56 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Brown, Clay, Cloud, Jackson, Jewell, Marshall and 8 more | 7 hr |
| Sep 16, 4:08 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Barber, Barton, Clark, Comanche, Edwards, Ellis and 15 more | 97 min |
| Sep 16, 5:54 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Barber, Barton, Butler, Chase, Clark, Comanche and 27 more | 8 hr |
Nearby
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.