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Severe Thunderstorm Watch 574

June 18, 200820 counties in Kansas; 12 counties in Oklahoma; 20 counties in Texas

The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at Jun 18, 2008, 8:07 PM CDT for 20 counties in Kansas; 12 counties in Oklahoma; 20 counties in Texas. It was in force for 6 hr.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued: Jun 18, 2008, 8:07 PM CDT (01:07 UTC)
Expired: Jun 19, 2008, 2:00 AM CDT
In force: 6 hr
Issued by: the Storm Prediction Center
Largest hail expected: 2 in
Strongest gust expected: 60 kt

All 52 counties

Barber County, KS, Barton County, KS, Clark County, KS, Comanche County, KS, Edwards County, KS, Ellis County, KS, Ford County, KS, Harper County, KS, Hodgeman County, KS, Kingman County, KS, Kiowa County, KS, Ness County, KS, Pawnee County, KS, Pratt County, KS, Reno County, KS, Rice County, KS, Rush County, KS, Russell County, KS, Stafford County, KS, Trego County, KS, Alfalfa County, OK, Beaver County, OK, Beckham County, OK, Custer County, OK, Dewey County, OK, Ellis County, OK, Harper County, OK, Major County, OK, Roger Mills County, OK, Washita County, OK, Woods County, OK, Woodward County, OK, Armstrong County, TX, Carson County, TX, Collingsworth County, TX, Dallam County, TX, Deaf Smith County, TX, Donley County, TX, Gray County, TX, Hansford County, TX, Hartley County, TX, Hemphill County, TX, Hutchinson County, TX, Lipscomb County, TX, Moore County, TX, Ochiltree County, TX, Oldham County, TX, Potter County, TX, Randall County, TX, Roberts County, TX, Sherman County, TX, Wheeler County, TX

The radar

The Dodge City radar (KDDC), 150 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:07 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: 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: 30%
One or more hailstones of 2 inches or more: 20%
Six or more combined severe hail and wind reports: 80%

Warnings issued inside it

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 18, 8:09 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Ness	66 min
Jun 18, 8:48 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Edwards, Hodgeman, Ness, Pawnee, Rush	30 min
Jun 18, 8:51 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AMA	Beaver, Texas	84 min
Jun 18, 8:57 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	AMA	Beaver, Texas	63 min
Jun 18, 9:39 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AMA	Beaver, Texas	96 min
Jun 18, 9:55 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AMA	Dallam, Hartley	80 min
Jun 18, 11:11 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AMA	Gray, Hemphill, Lipscomb, Ochiltree, Roberts, Wheeler	94 min
Jun 18, 11:35 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Ellis, Roger Mills	70 min
Jun 18, 11:49 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	OUN	Roger Mills	41 min
Jun 19, 12:06 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Beckham	69 min
Jun 19, 12:26 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AMA	Collingsworth, Donley, Gray, Wheeler	94 min

Discussions around it

SPC mesoscale discussions over the same counties from four hours before the watch to its end.

SPC that day

Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 18, 7:02 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Barber, Barton, Clark, Comanche, Decatur, Edwards and 26 more	88 min
Jun 19, 1:14 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Atchison, Brown, Doniphan, Jackson, Jefferson, Leavenworth and 6 more	61 min
Jun 19, 1:27 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	Anderson, Atchison, Brown, Coffey, Doniphan, Douglas and 19 more	10 hr
Jun 19, 1:32 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Allen, Anderson, Bourbon, Butler, Chase, Chautauqua and 20 more	58 min
Jun 19, 1:49 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	Grant, Greeley, Hamilton, Kearny, Morton, Stanton and 2 more	7 hr
Jun 19, 2:07 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	Allen, Bourbon, Butler, Chase, Chautauqua, Cherokee and 14 more	8 hr
Jun 19, 5:49 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Grant, Hamilton, Morton, Seward, Stanton, Stevens	116 min
Jun 19, 6:11 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Allen, Anderson, Atchison, Bourbon, Brown, Chase and 21 more	64 min
Jun 18, 7:29 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Cimarron, Texas	61 min
Jun 18, 10:55 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Comanche, Cotton, Greer, Harmon, Jackson, Kiowa and 1 more	95 min
Jun 19, 12:48 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	Comanche, Cotton, Greer, Harmon, Jackson, Kiowa and 1 more	7 hr
Jun 19, 4:03 AM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Comanche, Cotton, Greer, Harmon, Jackson, Kiowa and 1 more	57 min
Jun 19, 1:07 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Cimarron	83 min
Jun 19, 1:53 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Adair, Atoka, Bryan, Caddo, Canadian, Carter and 45 more	2 hr
Jun 19, 3:37 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Cimarron	83 min
Jun 19, 4:26 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Harmon	64 min
Jun 19, 4:40 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	Comanche, Cotton, Greer, Harmon, Jackson, Kiowa and 1 more	7 hr
Jun 19, 6:31 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	Anderson, Bosque, Collin, Dallas, Denton, Ellis and 23 more	5 hr
Jun 19, 9:32 AM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Anderson, Angelina, Austin, Bastrop, Brazos, Burleson and 24 more	118 min
Jun 19, 2:16 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Chambers, Fort Bend, Hardin, Harris, Liberty, Orange	89 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.