Alert archive / Kansas / Tornado Watches in 2006
Tornado Watch 778
The Storm Prediction Center issued this tornado watch at Sep 16, 2006, 5:54 PM CDT for 33 counties in Kansas; 28 counties in Oklahoma; 20 counties in Texas. It was in force for 8 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Sep 16, 2006, 5:54 PM CDT (22:54 UTC)
- Expired
- Sep 17, 2006, 2:00 AM CDT
- In force
- 8 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
- Largest hail expected
- 2.5 in
- Strongest gust expected
- 60 kt
All 81 counties
Barber County, KS, Barton County, KS, Butler County, KS, Chase County, KS, Clark County, KS, Comanche County, KS, Cowley County, KS, Dickinson County, KS, Edwards County, KS, Ellis County, KS, Ellsworth County, KS, Ford County, KS, Geary County, KS, Harper County, KS, Harvey County, KS, Kingman County, KS, Kiowa County, KS, Lincoln County, KS, Marion County, KS, McPherson County, KS, Morris County, KS, Ottawa County, KS, Pawnee County, KS, Pratt County, KS, Reno County, KS, Rice County, KS, Rush County, KS, Russell County, KS, Saline County, KS, Sedgwick County, KS, Stafford County, KS, Sumner County, KS, Wabaunsee County, KS, Alfalfa County, OK, Beaver County, OK, Beckham County, OK, Blaine County, OK, Caddo County, OK, Canadian County, OK, Comanche County, OK, Cotton County, OK, Custer County, OK, Dewey County, OK, Ellis County, OK, Garfield County, OK, Grady County, OK, Grant County, OK, Greer County, OK, Harmon County, OK, Harper County, OK, Jackson County, OK, Kay County, OK, Kingfisher County, OK, Kiowa County, OK, Major County, OK, Noble County, OK, Roger Mills County, OK, Tillman County, OK, Washita County, OK, Woods County, OK, Woodward County, OK, Archer County, TX, Baylor County, TX, Briscoe County, TX, Childress County, TX, Collingsworth County, TX, Cottle County, TX, Crosby County, TX, Dickens County, TX, Floyd County, TX, Foard County, TX, Hall County, TX, Hardeman County, TX, Hemphill County, TX, King County, TX, Knox County, TX, Lipscomb County, TX, Motley County, TX, Wheeler County, TX, Wichita County, TX, Wilbarger County, TX
The radar
The Vance AFB radar (KVNX), 75 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:56 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
- 40%
- One or more gusts of 65 knots or more
- 20%
- Ten or more severe hail reports
- 50%
- One or more hailstones of 2 inches or more
- 30%
- Six or more combined severe hail and wind reports
- 80%
Warnings issued inside it
17 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 16, 7:04 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Pawnee, Stafford | 26 min |
| Sep 16, 7:16 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Ellsworth | 44 min |
| Sep 16, 7:33 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Barton, Russell | 27 min |
| Sep 16, 7:34 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Stafford | 26 min |
| Sep 16, 7:58 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Cloud, Ottawa | 47 min |
| Sep 16, 8:44 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Cloud, Ottawa | 46 min |
| Sep 16, 9:18 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Rice | 27 min |
| Sep 16, 9:33 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Russell | 42 min |
| Sep 16, 9:41 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Ellsworth, McPherson, Rice, Saline | 49 min |
| Sep 16, 10:22 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Ellsworth, Lincoln, Russell | 38 min |
| Sep 16, 10:28 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Reno | 47 min |
| Sep 16, 10:33 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | McPherson, Rice | 27 min |
| Sep 16, 10:59 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | McPherson | 31 min |
| Sep 16, 11:08 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Ellsworth, Saline | 52 min |
| Sep 16, 11:16 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Reno | 29 min |
| Sep 16, 11:28 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Clay, Dickinson, Ottawa | 47 min |
| Sep 17, 12:11 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Woodward | 23 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, 10.9 hours before the alert went out and 132 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
- 856 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -155 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1200 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 46 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 274 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 221 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.3
- Supercell composite
- 5.9
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 15, 9:37 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Barber, Barton, Clark, Comanche, Edwards, Ellsworth and 13 more | 5 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 15, 10:25 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Andrews, Crosby, Dawson, Ector, Floyd, Gaines and 11 more | 2 hr |
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.