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Tornado Watch 440
The Storm Prediction Center issued this tornado watch at Jun 3, 2008, 7:23 PM CDT for 26 counties in Kansas; 8 counties in Oklahoma. It was in force for 6 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 3, 2008, 7:23 PM CDT (00:23 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 4, 2008, 1:00 AM CDT
- In force
- 6 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
- Largest hail expected
- 3 in
- Strongest gust expected
- 60 kt
All 34 counties
Allen County, KS, Anderson County, KS, Butler County, KS, Chase County, KS, Chautauqua County, KS, Coffey County, KS, Cowley County, KS, Douglas County, KS, Elk County, KS, Franklin County, KS, Greenwood County, KS, Harper County, KS, Harvey County, KS, Kingman County, KS, Labette County, KS, Lyon County, KS, Marion County, KS, McPherson County, KS, Montgomery County, KS, Neosho County, KS, Osage County, KS, Reno County, KS, Sedgwick County, KS, Sumner County, KS, Wilson County, KS, Woodson County, KS, Alfalfa County, OK, Craig County, OK, Grant County, OK, Kay County, OK, Nowata County, OK, Osage County, OK, Ottawa County, OK, Washington County, OK
The radar
The Wichita radar (KICT), 20 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:23 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
- 50%
- One or more EF2 to EF5 tornadoes
- 20%
- Ten or more severe wind reports
- 40%
- One or more gusts of 65 knots or more
- 30%
- Ten or more severe hail reports
- 60%
- One or more hailstones of 2 inches or more
- 60%
- Six or more combined severe hail and wind reports
- 90%
Warnings issued inside it
21 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 3, 7:27 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Alfalfa, Woods | 48 min |
| Jun 3, 7:54 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Harper | 50 min |
| Jun 3, 8:09 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | TOP | Douglas, Franklin, Osage | 3 hr |
| Jun 3, 8:11 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Alfalfa, Grant | 64 min |
| Jun 3, 8:19 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Alfalfa, Garfield, Grant | 56 min |
| Jun 3, 8:26 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Sedgwick, Sumner | 64 min |
| Jun 3, 8:46 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Kingman, Reno | 24 min |
| Jun 3, 8:55 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Cowley | 54 min |
| Jun 3, 8:59 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Franklin | 46 min |
| Jun 3, 9:06 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Grant, Kay | 54 min |
| Jun 3, 9:10 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Butler | 65 min |
| Jun 3, 9:13 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Osage | 62 min |
| Jun 3, 9:31 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Chautauqua, Elk, Greenwood | 59 min |
| Jun 3, 9:35 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Douglas | 19 min |
| Jun 3, 9:37 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Butler, Harvey, Sedgwick | 53 min |
| Jun 3, 9:42 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Nowata, Osage, Washington | 78 min |
| Jun 3, 10:07 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Montgomery, Wilson | 53 min |
| Jun 3, 10:26 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Cowley | 49 min |
| Jun 3, 10:29 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Labette, Neosho | 61 min |
| Jun 3, 10:39 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Craig | 34 min |
| Jun 3, 11:03 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Cowley, Sumner | 57 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
Lamont, OK (KLMN), launched 00:00Z, 0.4 hours before the alert went out and 103 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
- 3235 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -35 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1929 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 46 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 178 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 179 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.2
- Supercell composite
- 14.7
SPC that day
Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 3, 9:35 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Allen, Anderson, Bourbon, Butler, Chase, Chautauqua and 17 more | 115 min |
| Jun 3, 10:43 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Brown, Clay, Cloud, Dickinson, Ellsworth, Geary and 20 more | 3 hr |
| Jun 3, 10:58 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Bourbon, Cherokee, Crawford | 4 hr |
| Jun 4, 1:29 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Bourbon, Cherokee, Crawford, Labette | 91 min |
| Jun 4, 12:54 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Cheyenne | 96 min |
| Jun 4, 1:42 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Cheyenne, Decatur, Graham, Norton, Rawlins, Sheridan and 2 more | 7 hr |
| Jun 4, 2:46 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Jewell, Mitchell, Osborne, Phillips, Rooks, Smith | 6 hr |
| Jun 4, 3:26 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Cheyenne, Decatur, Rawlins | 64 min |
| Jun 4, 6:08 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Cheyenne, Decatur, Rawlins | 67 min |
Nearby
Tornado Watches in Kansas, 2008Tornado Watches in Oklahoma, 2008Every tornado watch in 2008
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.