Alert archive / Kansas / Severe Thunderstorm Watches in 2007
Severe Thunderstorm Watch 692
The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at Sep 28, 2007, 3:03 PM CDT for 24 counties in Kansas; Dundy County, Hitchcock County, Red Willow County, Nebraska. It was in force for 6 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Sep 28, 2007, 3:03 PM CDT (20:03 UTC)
- Expired
- Sep 28, 2007, 9:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 6 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
- Largest hail expected
- 2 in
- Strongest gust expected
- 60 kt
All 27 counties
Cheyenne County, KS, Decatur County, KS, Finney County, KS, Gove County, KS, Grant County, KS, Gray County, KS, Greeley County, KS, Hamilton County, KS, Haskell County, KS, Kearny County, KS, Lane County, KS, Logan County, KS, Meade County, KS, Morton County, KS, Rawlins County, KS, Scott County, KS, Seward County, KS, Sheridan County, KS, Sherman County, KS, Stanton County, KS, Stevens County, KS, Thomas County, KS, Wallace County, KS, Wichita County, KS, Dundy County, NE, Hitchcock County, NE, Red Willow County, NE
The radar
The Goodland radar (KGLD), 54 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:07 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
- 5%
- Ten or more severe wind reports
- 30%
- One or more gusts of 65 knots or more
- 30%
- Ten or more severe hail reports
- 50%
- One or more hailstones of 2 inches or more
- 20%
- Six or more combined severe hail and wind reports
- 80%
Warnings issued inside it
16 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 28, 3:08 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Greeley | 52 min |
| Sep 28, 3:52 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Greeley, Wallace | 23 min |
| Sep 28, 4:30 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Greeley, Wallace | 60 min |
| Sep 28, 4:35 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Logan | 55 min |
| Sep 28, 5:27 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Logan, Thomas, Wallace | 63 min |
| Sep 28, 5:49 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Wallace | 41 min |
| Sep 28, 6:02 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | GLD | Logan | 3 hr |
| Sep 28, 6:14 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | GLD | Gove, Logan | 31 min |
| Sep 28, 6:19 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Finney, Gray, Hodgeman | 41 min |
| Sep 28, 6:44 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | GLD | Gove, Logan | 46 min |
| Sep 28, 7:25 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | GLD | Gove | 58 min |
| Sep 28, 7:30 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Wichita | 25 min |
| Sep 28, 8:01 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Scott | 44 min |
| Sep 28, 8:04 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Logan | 16 min |
| Sep 28, 8:23 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Lane | 37 min |
| Sep 28, 8:42 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Lane, Scott | 48 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, 8.1 hours before the alert went out and 183 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
- 1886 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -24 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 720 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 24 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 75 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 144 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 4.0
SPC that day
Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 28, 2:01 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Cheyenne, Finney, Grant, Gray, Greeley, Hamilton and 14 more | 89 min |
| Sep 28, 5:55 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Arthur, Blaine, Chase, Custer, Frontier, Grant and 9 more | 6 hr |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Watches in Kansas, 2007Severe Thunderstorm Watches in Nebraska, 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.