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Severe Thunderstorm Watch 413

June 1, 200843 counties in Kansas; 20 counties in Oklahoma

The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at Jun 1, 2008, 5:18 AM CDT for 43 counties in Kansas; 20 counties in Oklahoma. It was in force for 5 hr.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued: Jun 1, 2008, 5:18 AM CDT (10:18 UTC)
Expired: Jun 1, 2008, 9:50 AM CDT
In force: 5 hr
Issued by: the Storm Prediction Center
Largest hail expected: 2.5 in
Strongest gust expected: 60 kt

All 63 counties

Allen County, KS, Barber County, KS, Barton County, KS, Butler County, KS, Chautauqua County, KS, Clark County, KS, Comanche County, KS, Cowley County, KS, Edwards County, KS, Elk County, KS, Finney County, KS, Ford County, KS, Grant County, KS, Gray County, KS, Greenwood County, KS, Hamilton County, KS, Harper County, KS, Harvey County, KS, Haskell County, KS, Hodgeman County, KS, Kearny County, KS, Kingman County, KS, Kiowa County, KS, Labette County, KS, Lane County, KS, Meade County, KS, Montgomery County, KS, Morton County, KS, Neosho County, KS, Ness County, KS, Pawnee County, KS, Pratt County, KS, Reno County, KS, Rice County, KS, Rush County, KS, Sedgwick County, KS, Seward County, KS, Stafford County, KS, Stanton County, KS, Stevens County, KS, Sumner County, KS, Wilson County, KS, Woodson County, KS, Alfalfa County, OK, Beaver County, OK, Craig County, OK, Delaware County, OK, Garfield County, OK, Grant County, OK, Harper County, OK, Kay County, OK, Major County, OK, Mayes County, OK, Noble County, OK, Nowata County, OK, Osage County, OK, Ottawa County, OK, Pawnee County, OK, Rogers County, OK, Tulsa County, OK, Washington County, OK, Woods County, OK, Woodward County, OK

The radar

The Dodge City radar (KDDC), 68 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 10:17 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: 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: 20%
Ten or more severe hail reports: 90%
One or more hailstones of 2 inches or more: 30%
Six or more combined severe hail and wind reports: 95%

Warnings issued inside it

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 1, 5:23 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Grant, Hamilton, Morton, Stanton, Stevens	20 min
Jun 1, 5:29 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Clark, Edwards, Ford, Kiowa	61 min
Jun 1, 5:32 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Clark, Finney, Ford, Gray, Hodgeman, Meade	43 min
Jun 1, 5:37 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Kingman	63 min
Jun 1, 5:39 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Barber, Comanche, Kiowa, Pratt	66 min
Jun 1, 6:03 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AMA	Beaver	42 min
Jun 1, 6:06 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Grant, Kay	39 min
Jun 1, 6:07 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Sumner	53 min
Jun 1, 6:12 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Clark, Comanche, Ford, Gray, Kiowa, Meade	63 min
Jun 1, 6:15 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Barber, Comanche, Kiowa, Pratt	60 min
Jun 1, 6:16 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Delaware	59 min
Jun 1, 6:24 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Harper	51 min
Jun 1, 6:27 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Harper	63 min
Jun 1, 6:29 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Barber, Pratt	46 min
Jun 1, 6:33 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Kingman	19 min
Jun 1, 6:48 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Cowley	57 min
Jun 1, 6:56 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Sumner	64 min
Jun 1, 7:01 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Barber	40 min
Jun 1, 7:07 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Osage	53 min
Jun 1, 7:08 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Kay	52 min
Jun 1, 7:23 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Harper	50 min
Jun 1, 7:27 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Barber, Comanche	24 min
Jun 1, 7:40 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Noble	50 min
Jun 1, 7:42 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Cowley	32 min
Jun 1, 7:51 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Sumner	23 min
Jun 1, 7:54 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Osage, Pawnee	66 min
Jun 1, 7:58 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Alfalfa, Woods	47 min
Jun 1, 8:09 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Nowata, Rogers, Washington	66 min
Jun 1, 8:35 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Kay, Noble	40 min
Jun 1, 8:35 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Creek, Osage, Pawnee, Tulsa	55 min
Jun 1, 9:15 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Creek, Osage, Pawnee	60 min
Jun 1, 9:16 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Mayes, Rogers	32 min
Jun 1, 9:17 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Noble, Payne	43 min
Jun 1, 9:33 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Creek, McIntosh, Muskogee, Okmulgee, Tulsa, Wagoner	51 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, 10.3 hours before the alert went out and 63 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 136 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -235 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1766 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 54 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 78 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 129 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.1

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SPC that day

Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 31, 7:43 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Cherokee, Crawford	32 min
May 31, 9:00 PM CDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	Bourbon, Cherokee, Crawford	4 hr
May 31, 11:22 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Chautauqua, Cherokee, Cowley, Crawford, Elk, Harper and 5 more	53 min
Jun 1, 1:04 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	Allen, Bourbon, Butler, Chautauqua, Cherokee, Cowley and 14 more	7 hr
Jun 1, 1:27 AM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Finney, Grant, Gray, Greeley, Hamilton, Haskell and 7 more	2 hr
Jun 1, 2:09 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	Finney, Grant, Gray, Greeley, Hamilton, Haskell and 9 more	3 hr
Jun 1, 2:34 AM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Allen, Bourbon, Chautauqua, Cherokee, Cowley, Crawford and 7 more	116 min
Jun 1, 4:58 AM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Barber, Clark, Comanche, Edwards, Finney, Ford and 12 more	2 hr
Jun 1, 7:26 AM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Barber, Chautauqua, Comanche, Cowley, Elk, Harper and 7 more	94 min
Jun 1, 7:58 AM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Chautauqua, Montgomery	3 hr
Jun 1, 8:36 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	Adair, Cherokee, Craig, Creek, Delaware, Haskell and 16 more	6 hr
Jun 1, 10:18 AM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Adair, Cherokee, Haskell, McIntosh, Mayes, Muskogee and 5 more	57 min
Jun 1, 6:28 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Alfalfa, Blaine, Caddo, Canadian, Cleveland, Coal and 25 more	92 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.