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Severe Thunderstorm Watch 548
The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at Jun 16, 2008, 2:24 AM CDT for 47 counties in Kansas. It was in force for 8 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 16, 2008, 2:24 AM CDT (07:24 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 16, 2008, 10:00 AM CDT
- In force
- 8 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
All 47 counties
Allen County, KS, Anderson County, KS, Barton County, KS, Bourbon County, KS, Butler County, KS, Chase County, KS, Chautauqua County, KS, Cherokee County, KS, Clay County, KS, Cloud County, KS, Coffey County, KS, Cowley County, KS, Crawford County, KS, Dickinson County, KS, Douglas County, KS, Elk County, KS, Ellis County, KS, Ellsworth County, KS, Franklin County, KS, Geary County, KS, Greenwood County, KS, Harvey County, KS, Jackson County, KS, Jefferson County, KS, Labette County, KS, Lincoln County, KS, Lyon County, KS, Marion County, KS, McPherson County, KS, Montgomery County, KS, Morris County, KS, Neosho County, KS, Osage County, KS, Ottawa County, KS, Pottawatomie County, KS, Reno County, KS, Rice County, KS, Riley County, KS, Rush County, KS, Russell County, KS, Saline County, KS, Sedgwick County, KS, Shawnee County, KS, Sumner County, KS, Wabaunsee County, KS, Wilson County, KS, Woodson County, KS
Warnings issued inside it
6 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 16, 5:46 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | Bourbon | 45 min |
| Jun 16, 8:29 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Russell | 24 min |
| Jun 16, 9:12 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Barton, Rice | 36 min |
| Jun 16, 9:26 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Barton | 64 min |
| Jun 16, 9:43 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Pawnee, Rush | 47 min |
| Jun 16, 9:53 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Ness, Pawnee, Rush | 35 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 00:00Z, 7.4 hours before the alert went out and 146 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
- 607 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -236 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1399 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 44 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 106 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 200 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.8
SPC that day
Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 15, 7:01 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Barber, Clark, Comanche, Edwards, Finney, Ford and 11 more | 5 hr |
| Jun 15, 9:20 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Butler, Chautauqua, Cowley, Elk, Greenwood, Harper and 3 more | 3 hr |
| Jun 15, 10:22 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Barton, Butler, Chase, Clay, Cloud, Coffey and 27 more | 113 min |
| Jun 15, 11:46 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Chautauqua, Cowley, Montgomery | 5 hr |
| Jun 16, 4:50 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Decatur, Graham, Norton, Phillips, Rawlins, Sheridan | 55 min |
| Jun 16, 6:17 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Allen, Bourbon, Butler, Chautauqua, Cherokee, Cowley and 8 more | 58 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.