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Severe Thunderstorm Watch 615
The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at Jun 26, 2008, 9:13 PM CDT for 25 counties in Kansas. It was in force for 7 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 26, 2008, 9:13 PM CDT (02:13 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 27, 2008, 4:00 AM CDT
- In force
- 7 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
All 25 counties
Allen County, KS, Barton County, KS, Butler County, KS, Chase County, KS, Chautauqua County, KS, Cowley County, KS, Elk County, KS, Ellis County, KS, Ellsworth County, KS, Greenwood County, KS, Harvey County, KS, Labette County, KS, Lincoln County, KS, Marion County, KS, McPherson County, KS, Montgomery County, KS, Neosho County, KS, Ness County, KS, Rice County, KS, Rush County, KS, Russell County, KS, Saline County, KS, Trego County, KS, Wilson County, KS, Woodson County, KS
The radar
The Wichita radar (KICT), 115 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 02:14 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.
Warnings issued inside it
13 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 26, 9:28 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Russell | 62 min |
| Jun 26, 10:56 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Russell | 64 min |
| Jun 26, 11:52 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Barton, Ellsworth, Lincoln, Russell | 53 min |
| Jun 27, 12:24 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Ness, Trego | 34 min |
| Jun 27, 12:32 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Barton, Ellsworth, Rice | 58 min |
| Jun 27, 12:45 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Ellis, Rush | 34 min |
| Jun 27, 1:08 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | McPherson | 67 min |
| Jun 27, 1:11 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Reno, Rice | 64 min |
| Jun 27, 1:37 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Harvey, Kingman, Reno, Sedgwick | 53 min |
| Jun 27, 2:50 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Butler, Cowley, Sedgwick | 55 min |
| Jun 27, 3:08 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | ICT | Butler, Greenwood | 7 hr |
| Jun 27, 3:25 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Cowley, Sumner | 65 min |
| Jun 27, 3:55 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Chautauqua, Elk | 55 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, 2.2 hours before the alert went out and 185 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
- 3854 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -6 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1279 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 28 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 35 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 216 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 1.6
- Supercell composite
- 14.1
SPC that day
Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 26, 8:00 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Barton, Butler, Chase, Edwards, Finney, Ford and 28 more | 90 min |
| Jun 26, 10:11 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Clay, Cloud, Lincoln, Mitchell, Osborne, Ottawa and 1 more | 64 min |
| Jun 27, 3:06 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Allen, Butler, Chautauqua, Cherokee, Cowley, Crawford and 11 more | 114 min |
| Jun 27, 3:20 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Allen, Chautauqua, Elk, Labette, Montgomery, Neosho and 2 more | 4 hr |
| Jun 27, 6:20 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Cherokee, Labette | 55 min |
| Jun 27, 1:37 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Allen, Anderson, Atchison, Bourbon, Brown, Butler and 42 more | 2 hr |
| Jun 27, 4:04 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Anderson, Atchison, Brown, Chase, Clay, Cloud and 28 more | 4 hr |
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.