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Severe Thunderstorm Watch 262

May 5, 20084 counties in Colorado; 24 counties in Kansas

The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at May 5, 2008, 1:40 PM MDT for 4 counties in Colorado; 24 counties in Kansas. It was in force for 9 hr.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued
May 5, 2008, 1:40 PM MDT (19:40 UTC)
Expired
May 5, 2008, 10:40 PM MDT
In force
9 hr
Issued by
the Storm Prediction Center
Largest hail expected
2 in
Strongest gust expected
60 kt
All 28 counties

Baca County, CO, Kiowa County, CO, Las Animas County, CO, Prowers County, CO, Barber County, KS, Clark County, KS, Comanche County, KS, Edwards County, KS, Finney County, KS, Ford County, KS, Grant County, KS, Gray County, KS, Hamilton County, KS, Haskell County, KS, Hodgeman County, KS, Kearny County, KS, Kiowa County, KS, Lane County, KS, Meade County, KS, Morton County, KS, Ness County, KS, Pawnee County, KS, Pratt County, KS, Scott County, KS, Seward County, KS, Stafford County, KS, Stanton County, KS, Stevens County, KS

The radar

The Dodge City radar (KDDC), 138 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:43 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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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
20%
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
40%
One or more hailstones of 2 inches or more
30%
Six or more combined severe hail and wind reports
80%

Warnings issued inside it

23 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
May 5, 2:37 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPUBBaca53 min
May 5, 2:58 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCFinney, Kearny, Scott47 min
May 5, 3:07 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCFinney, Kearny38 min
May 5, 3:32 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCScott28 min
May 5, 3:40 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPUBBaca65 min
May 5, 3:40 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCFinney, Kearny50 min
May 5, 3:54 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCHodgeman, Ness51 min
May 5, 4:00 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCLane, Scott30 min
May 5, 4:13 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCMorton, Stevens47 min
May 5, 4:14 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCFinney46 min
May 5, 4:22 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCFinney, Scott38 min
May 5, 4:34 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCFinney, Hodgeman, Lane, Ness56 min
May 5, 4:53 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCGrant, Stevens52 min
May 5, 4:58 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCFinney47 min
May 5, 5:28 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCHodgeman28 min
May 5, 5:41 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCFinney, Gray49 min
May 5, 6:25 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCFinney, Gray33 min
May 5, 6:46 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCBarber44 min
May 5, 6:47 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCFord, Gray43 min
May 5, 7:30 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCEdwards, Ford, Kiowa20 min
May 5, 8:37 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCBarber, Comanche, Kiowa, Pratt38 min
May 5, 9:11 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCBarber, Comanche, Pratt49 min
May 5, 9:46 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCBarber25 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, 7.7 hours before the alert went out and 145 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.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Dodge City, at 12:00Z on 2008-05-05Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 117 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Dodge City, at 12:00Z on 2008-05-05The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 195 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.
Mixed-layer CAPE
117 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-217 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1216 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
39 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
195 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
180 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
-0.6

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SPC that day

Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
May 5, 1:10 PM MDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCBaca95 min
May 5, 5:43 PM MDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCClark, Comanche, Edwards, Finney, Ford, Grant and 7 more62 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.