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Tornado Watch 462

June 5, 200832 counties in Kansas; 15 counties in Oklahoma

The Storm Prediction Center issued this tornado watch at Jun 5, 2008, 11:47 AM CDT for 32 counties in Kansas; 15 counties in Oklahoma. It was in force for 8 hr.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued: Jun 5, 2008, 11:47 AM CDT (16:47 UTC)
Expired: Jun 5, 2008, 8:00 PM CDT
In force: 8 hr
Issued by: the Storm Prediction Center
Particularly dangerous situation: Yes
Largest hail expected: 3 in
Strongest gust expected: 70 kt

All 47 counties

Barber County, KS, Barton County, KS, Clay County, KS, Cloud County, KS, Comanche County, KS, Dickinson County, KS, Edwards County, KS, Ellis County, KS, Ellsworth County, KS, Geary County, KS, Harper County, KS, Harvey County, KS, Kingman County, KS, Kiowa County, KS, Lincoln County, KS, Marion County, KS, Marshall County, KS, McPherson County, KS, Ottawa County, KS, Pawnee County, KS, Pratt County, KS, Reno County, KS, Republic County, KS, Rice County, KS, Riley County, KS, Rush County, KS, Russell County, KS, Saline County, KS, Sedgwick County, KS, Stafford County, KS, Sumner County, KS, Washington County, KS, Alfalfa County, OK, Blaine County, OK, Custer County, OK, Dewey County, OK, Ellis County, OK, Garfield County, OK, Grant County, OK, Harper County, OK, Kay County, OK, Kingfisher County, OK, Major County, OK, Noble County, OK, Roger Mills County, OK, Woods County, OK, Woodward County, OK

The radar

The Wichita radar (KICT), 101 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 17:00 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: 90%
One or more EF2 to EF5 tornadoes: 60%
Ten or more severe wind reports: 95%
One or more gusts of 65 knots or more: 70%
Ten or more severe hail reports: 95%
One or more hailstones of 2 inches or more: 90%
Six or more combined severe hail and wind reports: 95%

Warnings issued inside it

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 5, 11:56 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Edwards, Kiowa, Pratt	35 min
Jun 5, 12:38 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Edwards, Pawnee, Rush, Stafford	37 min
Jun 5, 12:41 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Barton	64 min
Jun 5, 12:52 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Edwards, Kiowa, Pratt, Stafford	38 min
Jun 5, 1:12 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Barton, Ellsworth, Russell	33 min
Jun 5, 1:15 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Edwards, Kiowa, Pratt	45 min
Jun 5, 1:27 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Edwards, Pawnee, Stafford	33 min
Jun 5, 1:34 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Ellsworth, Lincoln, Russell	56 min
Jun 5, 1:37 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Edwards, Pawnee, Pratt, Stafford	23 min
Jun 5, 1:37 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Barton, Rice	53 min
Jun 5, 1:50 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Ellsworth, Russell	10 min
Jun 5, 1:58 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	DDC	Pawnee, Stafford	32 min
Jun 5, 2:03 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Edwards, Kiowa, Pawnee, Pratt, Stafford	42 min
Jun 5, 2:03 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Barton, Ellsworth, Russell	27 min
Jun 5, 2:05 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	ICT	Barton	5 hr
Jun 5, 2:24 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Barton, Ellsworth, Lincoln, Rice, Russell	66 min
Jun 5, 2:25 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	DDC	Stafford	20 min
Jun 5, 2:39 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	ICT	Barton, Rice	33 min
Jun 5, 2:45 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Edwards, Pawnee, Pratt, Stafford	45 min
Jun 5, 2:48 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Pratt, Stafford	28 min
Jun 5, 2:54 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	ICT	Ellsworth, Rice	36 min
Jun 5, 2:57 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	McPherson, Reno, Rice	63 min
Jun 5, 3:10 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TOP	Cloud, Ottawa	35 min
Jun 5, 3:14 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	ICT	Ellsworth, Lincoln, Saline	34 min
Jun 5, 3:21 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Barber, Pratt	39 min
Jun 5, 3:22 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	ICT	Ellsworth, McPherson, Reno, Rice	53 min
Jun 5, 3:24 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	DDC	Barber, Pratt	15 min
Jun 5, 3:34 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Kingman, Reno	56 min
Jun 5, 3:36 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TOP	Ottawa	39 min
Jun 5, 4:01 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Ellsworth, Rice	31 min
Jun 5, 4:06 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TOP	Clay, Cloud	39 min
Jun 5, 4:09 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Harvey, McPherson, Reno, Saline	52 min
Jun 5, 4:10 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	TOP	Clay, Ottawa	50 min
Jun 5, 4:16 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Alfalfa, Dewey, Major, Woods	44 min
Jun 5, 4:25 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Alfalfa, Woods	65 min
Jun 5, 4:28 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Harvey, McPherson, Marion	46 min
Jun 5, 4:29 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Beckham, Custer, Greer, Washita	46 min
Jun 5, 4:33 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Custer, Dewey	42 min
Jun 5, 4:35 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	TOP	Clay, Riley, Washington	40 min
Jun 5, 4:39 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Reno, Rice	38 min
Jun 5, 4:48 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Harper, Kingman	57 min
Jun 5, 4:53 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TOP	Clay, Dickinson, Geary, Morris, Ottawa, Riley	52 min
Jun 5, 4:54 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Alfalfa, Blaine, Dewey, Garfield, Grant, Major and 1 more	51 min
Jun 5, 5:03 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Harvey, Kingman, Reno, Sedgwick	43 min
Jun 5, 5:04 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	McPherson, Saline	56 min
Jun 5, 5:05 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	TOP	Marshall	40 min
Jun 5, 5:13 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Beckham, Blaine, Custer, Dewey, Washita	32 min
Jun 5, 5:16 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Garfield, Grant	59 min
Jun 5, 5:22 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Sedgwick, Sumner	53 min
Jun 5, 5:32 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Harvey, McPherson, Marion, Sedgwick	58 min
Jun 5, 5:37 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	TOP	Geary, Morris, Pottawatomie, Riley	23 min
Jun 5, 5:40 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Alfalfa, Blaine, Custer, Dewey, Garfield, Grant and 3 more	50 min
Jun 5, 5:42 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TOP	Marshall, Pottawatomie, Riley	33 min
Jun 5, 5:53 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TOP	Dickinson	52 min
Jun 5, 5:59 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	TOP	Geary, Pottawatomie, Riley	31 min
Jun 5, 6:02 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	ICT	Sedgwick, Sumner	21 min
Jun 5, 6:04 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TOP	Marshall, Nemaha, Pottawatomie	26 min
Jun 5, 6:13 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Butler, Cowley, Harvey, Sedgwick, Sumner	62 min
Jun 5, 6:21 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Alfalfa, Beckham, Blaine, Caddo, Custer, Dewey and 8 more	54 min
Jun 5, 6:24 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TOP	Geary, Morris, Riley	36 min
Jun 5, 6:28 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	TOP	Jackson, Marshall, Nemaha, Pottawatomie	47 min
Jun 5, 6:30 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	TOP	Geary, Pottawatomie, Riley	3 hr
Jun 5, 6:37 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Harvey, Marion	35 min
Jun 5, 7:02 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	TOP	Marshall, Nemaha, Pottawatomie	3 hr
Jun 5, 7:04 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TOP	Geary, Lyon, Morris, Riley, Wabaunsee	41 min
Jun 5, 7:12 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Butler, Cowley, Sumner	28 min
Jun 5, 7:14 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Alfalfa, Beckham, Blaine, Caddo, Canadian, Custer and 8 more	61 min
Jun 5, 7:25 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	OUN	Alfalfa, Blaine, Custer, Dewey, Garfield, Grant and 2 more	4 hr
Jun 5, 7:55 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Kay	20 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

Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 12:00Z, 4.8 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.

Skew-T log-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 1268 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -318 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1569 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 51 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 367 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 402 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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SPC that day

Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 4, 7:55 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Cheyenne, Decatur, Jewell, Norton, Phillips, Rawlins and 3 more	65 min
Jun 4, 8:49 PM CDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	Cheyenne, Decatur, Graham, Jewell, Mitchell, Norton and 10 more	7 hr
Jun 4, 11:14 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Cheyenne, Cloud, Decatur, Graham, Jewell, Mitchell and 11 more	2 hr
Jun 5, 5:07 AM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Cheyenne, Decatur, Greeley, Hamilton, Logan, Rawlins and 4 more	2 hr
Jun 5, 5:33 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	Cheyenne, Decatur, Greeley, Hamilton, Logan, Morton and 7 more	6 hr
Jun 5, 7:23 AM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Cheyenne, Decatur, Greeley, Hamilton, Logan, Rawlins and 5 more	67 min
Jun 5, 10:35 AM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Brown, Doniphan, Jewell, Republic, Smith	85 min
Jun 5, 10:55 AM CDT	Tornado Watch PDS	SPC	Jewell, Mitchell, Osborne, Phillips, Rooks, Smith	8 hr
Jun 5, 11:08 AM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Cheyenne, Grant, Greeley, Hamilton, Kearny, Morton and 6 more	67 min
Jun 5, 11:13 AM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Barber, Barton, Clay, Cloud, Comanche, Dickinson and 27 more	92 min
Jun 5, 12:44 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Barber, Barton, Cloud, Comanche, Ellsworth, Harper and 18 more	91 min
Jun 5, 1:29 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	Cheyenne, Clark, Decatur, Finney, Ford, Gove and 25 more	6 hr
Jun 5, 3:27 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Barber, Clay, Cloud, Dickinson, Ellsworth, Geary and 14 more	93 min
Jun 5, 4:38 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Allen, Anderson, Atchison, Bourbon, Brown, Butler and 30 more	37 min
Jun 5, 4:50 PM CDT	Tornado Watch PDS	SPC	Allen, Anderson, Atchison, Brown, Butler, Chase and 27 more	7 hr
Jun 5, 5:50 PM CDT	Tornado Watch PDS	SPC	Jewell	7 hr
Jun 5, 6:22 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Allen, Anderson, Atchison, Brown, Butler, Chase and 33 more	53 min
Jun 5, 1:38 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Beckham, Caddo, Comanche, Custer, Greer, Harmon and 5 more	67 min
Jun 5, 2:19 PM CDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	Beckham, Caddo, Canadian, Comanche, Cotton, Grady and 6 more	6 hr
Jun 5, 5:23 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Caddo, Canadian, Comanche, Cotton, Custer, Grady and 6 more	67 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.