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Severe Thunderstorm Watch 539

June 15, 200850 counties in Kansas; 25 counties in Missouri

The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at Jun 15, 2008, 9:09 AM CDT for 50 counties in Kansas; 25 counties in Missouri. It was in force for 8 hr.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued
Jun 15, 2008, 9:09 AM CDT (14:09 UTC)
Expired
Jun 15, 2008, 5:00 PM CDT
In force
8 hr
Issued by
the Storm Prediction Center
All 75 counties

Allen County, KS, Anderson County, KS, Atchison County, KS, Barton County, KS, Brown County, KS, Butler County, KS, Chase County, KS, Clay County, KS, Cloud County, KS, Coffey County, KS, Dickinson County, KS, Doniphan County, KS, Douglas County, KS, Ellsworth County, KS, Franklin County, KS, Geary County, KS, Greenwood County, KS, Harvey County, KS, Jackson County, KS, Jefferson County, KS, Jewell County, KS, Johnson County, KS, Leavenworth County, KS, Lincoln County, KS, Linn County, KS, Lyon County, KS, Marion County, KS, Marshall County, KS, McPherson County, KS, Miami County, KS, Mitchell County, KS, Morris County, KS, Nemaha County, KS, Osage County, KS, Osborne County, KS, Ottawa County, KS, Pottawatomie County, KS, Reno County, KS, Republic County, KS, Rice County, KS, Riley County, KS, Russell County, KS, Saline County, KS, Sedgwick County, KS, Shawnee County, KS, Smith County, KS, Wabaunsee County, KS, Washington County, KS, Woodson County, KS, Wyandotte County, KS, Adair County, MO, Bates County, MO, Buchanan County, MO, Caldwell County, MO, Carroll County, MO, Cass County, MO, Chariton County, MO, Clay County, MO, Clinton County, MO, Cooper County, MO, Henry County, MO, Howard County, MO, Jackson County, MO, Johnson County, MO, Lafayette County, MO, Linn County, MO, Macon County, MO, Pettis County, MO, Platte County, MO, Putnam County, MO, Randolph County, MO, Ray County, MO, Saline County, MO, Schuyler County, MO, Sullivan County, MO

Warnings issued inside it

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 15, 9:45 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTOPMarshall45 min
Jun 15, 10:22 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTOPMarshall, Nemaha53 min
Jun 15, 10:34 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTOPMarshall, Washington41 min
Jun 15, 11:09 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTOPJackson, Marshall, Nemaha, Pottawatomie51 min
Jun 15, 11:14 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTOPClay, Marshall, Pottawatomie, Riley, Washington36 min
Jun 15, 11:50 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEAXClay, Clinton, Ray25 min
Jun 15, 11:54 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTOPJackson, Jefferson, Pottawatomie, Shawnee, Wabaunsee51 min
Jun 15, 12:00 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEAXPutnam, Schuyler45 min
Jun 15, 1:16 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEAXHenry44 min
Jun 15, 1:58 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGIDJewell, Smith47 min
Jun 15, 2:37 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningEAXHenry12 hr
Jun 15, 2:38 PM CDTTornado WarningGIDJewell, Mitchell, Osborne, Smith37 min
Jun 15, 3:06 PM CDTTornado WarningGIDJewell, Mitchell, Osborne, Smith39 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

Topeka, KS (KTOP), launched 12:00Z, 2.2 hours before the alert went out and 56 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, Topeka, KS at 12:00Z on 2008-06-15Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 2017 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, Topeka, KS at 12:00Z on 2008-06-15The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 62 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 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
2017 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-168 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
691 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
28 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
62 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
9 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.8

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SPC that day

Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 15, 5:29 AM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCBarber, Butler, Chautauqua, Clark, Comanche, Cowley and 14 more3 hr
Jun 15, 8:44 AM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCAtchison, Brown, Clay, Doniphan, Douglas, Franklin and 15 more91 min
Jun 15, 1:16 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCAnderson, Atchison, Brown, Chase, Clay, Cloud and 36 more119 min
Jun 15, 1:57 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPCBourbon, Cherokee, Crawford7 hr
Jun 15, 3:57 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCAllen, Butler, Chase, Chautauqua, Coffey, Cowley and 20 more93 min
Jun 15, 6:09 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCCherokee, Labette66 min
Jun 15, 6:36 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCBarber, Clark, Comanche, Edwards, Ford, Harper and 5 more84 min
Jun 15, 6:54 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPCAndrew, Atchison, Daviess, DeKalb, Gentry, Grundy and 6 more7 hr
Jun 15, 11:17 AM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCAudrain, Clark, Knox, Lewis, Marion, Monroe and 4 more88 min
Jun 15, 11:42 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPCAudrain, Boone, Callaway, Clark, Cole, Franklin and 18 more7 hr
Jun 15, 6:41 AM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCAdams, Burt, Butler, Cass, Clay, Colfax and 18 more64 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.