Alert archive / Kansas / Tornado Watches in 2008
Tornado Watch 505
The Storm Prediction Center issued this tornado watch at Jun 10, 2008, 5:47 PM CDT for 29 counties in Kansas; 7 counties in Oklahoma. It was in force for 4 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 10, 2008, 5:47 PM CDT (22:47 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 10, 2008, 10:02 PM CDT
- In force
- 4 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
- Largest hail expected
- 3.5 in
- Strongest gust expected
- 70 kt
All 36 counties
Barber County, KS, Barton County, KS, Clark County, KS, Comanche County, KS, Edwards County, KS, Ellis County, KS, Ellsworth County, KS, Finney County, KS, Ford County, KS, Gray County, KS, Harper County, KS, Haskell County, KS, Hodgeman County, KS, Kingman County, KS, Kiowa County, KS, Lane County, KS, Lincoln County, KS, Meade County, KS, Ness County, KS, Pawnee County, KS, Pratt County, KS, Reno County, KS, Rice County, KS, Rush County, KS, Russell County, KS, Scott County, KS, Seward County, KS, Stafford County, KS, Trego County, KS, Alfalfa County, OK, Beaver County, OK, Ellis County, OK, Harper County, OK, Major County, OK, Woods County, OK, Woodward County, OK
The radar
The Dodge City radar (KDDC), 34 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:50 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
- 30%
- Ten or more severe wind reports
- 60%
- One or more gusts of 65 knots or more
- 40%
- Ten or more severe hail reports
- 70%
- One or more hailstones of 2 inches or more
- 50%
- Six or more combined severe hail and wind reports
- 80%
Discussions around it
SPC mesoscale discussions over the same counties from four hours before the watch to its end.
The nearest sounding before it
Amarillo Airport, TX (KAMA), launched 12:00Z, 10.8 hours before the alert went out and 348 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
- 1037 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -212 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 871 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 40 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 168 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 304 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 9.3
SPC that day
Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 10, 5:19 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Clark, Finney, Ford, Grant, Gray, Hamilton and 13 more | 56 min |
| Jun 10, 1:11 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Austin, Brazoria, Chambers, Colorado, Fort Bend, Galveston and 5 more | 64 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.