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Severe Thunderstorm Watch 375
The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at Jun 9, 2007, 7:20 PM CDT for 13 counties in Kansas; Beaver County, Cimarron County, Texas County, Oklahoma; 19 counties in Texas. It was in force for 5 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 9, 2007, 7:20 PM CDT (00:20 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 10, 2007, 12:00 AM CDT
- In force
- 5 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
- Largest hail expected
- 2 in
- Strongest gust expected
- 60 kt
All 35 counties
Clark County, KS, Finney County, KS, Ford County, KS, Grant County, KS, Gray County, KS, Haskell County, KS, Hodgeman County, KS, Kearny County, KS, Meade County, KS, Morton County, KS, Seward County, KS, Stanton County, KS, Stevens County, KS, Beaver County, OK, Cimarron County, OK, Texas County, OK, Armstrong County, TX, Carson County, TX, Dallam County, TX, Deaf Smith County, TX, Donley County, TX, Gray County, TX, Hansford County, TX, Hartley County, TX, Hemphill County, TX, Hutchinson County, TX, Lipscomb County, TX, Moore County, TX, Ochiltree County, TX, Oldham County, TX, Potter County, TX, Randall County, TX, Roberts County, TX, Sherman County, TX, Wheeler County, TX
The radar
The Amarillo radar (KAMA), 166 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:20 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
- 10%
- One or more EF2 to EF5 tornadoes
- 2%
- Ten or more severe wind reports
- 60%
- One or more gusts of 65 knots or more
- 30%
- Ten or more severe hail reports
- 60%
- One or more hailstones of 2 inches or more
- 20%
- Six or more combined severe hail and wind reports
- 95%
Warnings issued inside it
5 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 9, 7:56 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Finney, Kearny | 49 min |
| Jun 9, 8:01 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Grant, Stanton | 44 min |
| Jun 9, 8:39 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Grant | 51 min |
| Jun 9, 10:22 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AMA | Texas | 53 min |
| Jun 9, 10:25 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Ford | 50 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, 0.3 hours before the alert went out and 177 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
- 2441 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -112 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1460 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 28 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 129 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 136 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.3
- Supercell composite
- 3.7
SPC that day
Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 9, 9:50 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Edwards, Ford, Gray, Haskell, Hodgeman, Meade and 2 more | 85 min |
| Jun 9, 11:11 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Allen, Anderson, Atchison, Bourbon, Brown, Butler and 46 more | 3 hr |
| Jun 10, 4:16 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Allen, Anderson, Bourbon, Cherokee, Coffey, Cowley and 10 more | 89 min |
| Jun 10, 4:33 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Allen, Bourbon, Cherokee, Crawford, Labette, Montgomery and 3 more | 7 hr |
| Jun 10, 6:43 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Allen, Bourbon, Cherokee, Crawford, Labette, Montgomery and 2 more | 92 min |
| Jun 10, 11:28 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Atoka, Carter, Choctaw, Cleveland, Coal, Comanche and 21 more | 92 min |
| Jun 10, 1:37 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Adair, Caddo, Canadian, Cherokee, Cleveland, Coal and 35 more | 9 hr |
| Jun 10, 3:35 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Adair, Canadian, Cherokee, Cleveland, Coal, Creek and 31 more | 55 min |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Watches in Texas, 2007Severe Thunderstorm Watches in Kansas, 2007Severe Thunderstorm Watches in Oklahoma, 2007Every severe thunderstorm watch in 2007
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.