Alert archive / Missouri / Tornado Watches in 2008

Tornado Watch 514

June 12, 20084 states

The Storm Prediction Center issued this tornado watch at Jun 12, 2008, 3:06 PM CDT for 4 states. It was in force for 7 hr.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued
Jun 12, 2008, 3:06 PM CDT (20:06 UTC)
Expired
Jun 12, 2008, 10:00 PM CDT
In force
7 hr
Issued by
the Storm Prediction Center
All 78 counties

Appanoose County, IA, Davis County, IA, Mahaska County, IA, Monroe County, IA, Wapello County, IA, Wayne County, IA, Adams County, IL, Brown County, IL, Allen County, KS, Anderson County, KS, Atchison County, KS, Butler County, KS, Chase 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, Jackson County, KS, Jefferson County, KS, Johnson County, KS, Kingman County, KS, Leavenworth County, KS, Linn County, KS, Lyon County, KS, Marion County, KS, McPherson County, KS, Miami County, KS, Morris County, KS, Osage County, KS, Reno County, KS, Sedgwick County, KS, Shawnee County, KS, Sumner County, KS, Wabaunsee County, KS, Woodson County, KS, Wyandotte County, KS, Adair County, MO, Audrain County, MO, Bates County, MO, Boone County, MO, Buchanan County, MO, Caldwell County, MO, Carroll County, MO, Cass County, MO, Chariton County, MO, Clay County, MO, Clinton County, MO, Cooper County, MO, Daviess County, MO, DeKalb County, MO, Grundy County, MO, Henry County, MO, Howard County, MO, Jackson County, MO, Johnson County, MO, Knox County, MO, Lafayette County, MO, Lewis County, MO, Linn County, MO, Livingston County, MO, Macon County, MO, Marion County, MO, Mercer County, MO, Monroe County, MO, Pettis County, MO, Platte County, MO, Putnam County, MO, Ralls County, MO, Randolph County, MO, Ray County, MO, Saline County, MO, Schuyler County, MO, Shelby County, MO, Sullivan County, MO

The radar

The Pleasant Hill radar (KEAX), 97 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:09 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

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 12, 3:50 PM CDTTornado WarningEAXSullivan25 min
Jun 12, 3:53 PM CDTTornado WarningEAXDaviess, Grundy37 min
Jun 12, 3:58 PM CDTTornado WarningEAXPutnam32 min
Jun 12, 4:20 PM CDTTornado WarningEAXGrundy, Sullivan40 min
Jun 12, 4:21 PM CDTTornado WarningDMXAppanoose, Davis39 min
Jun 12, 4:22 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEAXMercer38 min
Jun 12, 4:26 PM CDTTornado WarningEAXPutnam, Schuyler34 min
Jun 12, 4:40 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDMXAppanoose, Wayne34 min
Jun 12, 4:47 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDMXMonroe32 min
Jun 12, 4:51 PM CDTTornado WarningEAXSullivan24 min
Jun 12, 4:57 PM CDTTornado WarningDMXDavis48 min
Jun 12, 5:06 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDMXMahaska39 min
Jun 12, 5:10 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningICTMarion28 min
Jun 12, 5:10 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEAXPutnam, Sullivan35 min
Jun 12, 5:11 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTOPWabaunsee49 min
Jun 12, 5:15 PM CDTTornado WarningEAXAdair, Putnam, Sullivan19 min
Jun 12, 5:19 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningDMXAppanoose, Davis, Monroe, Wapello12 hr
Jun 12, 5:26 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDMXAppanoose, Wayne14 min
Jun 12, 5:26 PM CDTTornado WarningICTChase64 min
Jun 12, 5:26 PM CDTTornado WarningEAXSchuyler34 min
Jun 12, 5:30 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDMXMahaska, Poweshiek17 min
Jun 12, 5:31 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEAXSchuyler32 min
Jun 12, 5:35 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTOPOsage, Shawnee55 min
Jun 12, 5:36 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDMXMonroe24 min
Jun 12, 5:47 PM CDTTornado WarningTOPOsage, Shawnee43 min
Jun 12, 5:48 PM CDTTornado WarningDMXDavis30 min
Jun 12, 5:49 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningICTMarion56 min
Jun 12, 5:57 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTOPLyon, Wabaunsee38 min
Jun 12, 6:00 PM CDTTornado WarningICTMarion28 min
Jun 12, 6:02 PM CDTTornado WarningTOPLyon43 min
Jun 12, 6:18 PM CDTTornado WarningICTChase57 min
Jun 12, 6:18 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTOPDouglas, Jefferson57 min
Jun 12, 6:26 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningICTButler, Harvey, Marion64 min
Jun 12, 6:27 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTOPOsage, Shawnee63 min
Jun 12, 6:36 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningTOPDouglas, Jefferson, Shawnee4 hr
Jun 12, 6:41 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEAXBuchanan, Clinton, DeKalb49 min
Jun 12, 6:42 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTOPLyon33 min
Jun 12, 6:56 PM CDTTornado WarningTOPLyon, Osage34 min
Jun 12, 6:57 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningICTKingman, Sedgwick63 min
Jun 12, 7:02 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEAXLeavenworth22 min
Jun 12, 7:13 PM CDTTornado WarningICTChase22 min
Jun 12, 7:21 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTOPDouglas, Jefferson, Shawnee39 min
Jun 12, 7:22 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningICTHarvey, Sedgwick53 min
Jun 12, 7:27 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningICTChase63 min
Jun 12, 7:28 PM CDTTornado WarningTOPOsage20 min
Jun 12, 7:42 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEAXJohnson, Leavenworth, Wyandotte33 min
Jun 12, 7:53 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningTOPOsage4 hr
Jun 12, 7:57 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningICTHarper, Kingman, Sedgwick, Sumner63 min
Jun 12, 7:59 PM CDTTornado WarningEAXJohnson, Leavenworth, Wyandotte31 min
Jun 12, 8:02 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTOPCoffey, Lyon, Osage43 min
Jun 12, 8:09 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEAXJohnson, Leavenworth, Wyandotte36 min
Jun 12, 8:14 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningTOPDouglas4 hr
Jun 12, 8:15 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDMXWapello30 min
Jun 12, 8:17 PM CDTTornado WarningICTChase, Greenwood58 min
Jun 12, 8:19 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningEAXGrundy6 hr
Jun 12, 8:29 PM CDTTornado WarningICTSedgwick34 min
Jun 12, 8:42 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningICTChase4 hr
Jun 12, 8:44 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEAXWyandotte46 min
Jun 12, 8:50 PM CDTTornado WarningICTButler55 min
Jun 12, 8:59 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningEAXJohnson, Leavenworth, Wyandotte4 hr
Jun 12, 9:03 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningTOPLyon3 hr
Jun 12, 9:11 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningICTGreenwood64 min
Jun 12, 9:13 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTOPCoffey27 min
Jun 12, 9:29 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningTOPCoffey, Douglas, Franklin, Osage4 hr
Jun 12, 9:31 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningICTKingman, Sedgwick, Sumner59 min
Jun 12, 9:45 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningICTButler60 min
Jun 12, 9:50 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEAXCarroll, Lafayette, Ray25 min
Jun 12, 9:57 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningICTCowley, Elk, Greenwood78 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 12:00Z, 8.1 hours before the alert went out and 166 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Topeka, KS at 12:00Z on 2008-06-12Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Topeka, KS at 12:00Z on 2008-06-12The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 165 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
793 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
60 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
165 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
281 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
4.6

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SPC that day

Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 12, 12:37 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCAdams, Boone, Brown, Bureau, Carroll, DeKalb and 29 more113 min
Jun 12, 1:04 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCBoone, Bureau, Carroll, Cook, DeKalb, DuPage and 32 more7 hr
Jun 12, 3:45 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCBoone, Bureau, Carroll, DeKalb, DuPage, Fulton and 22 more90 min
Jun 12, 3:52 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCBoone, Bureau, Carroll, DeKalb, Henderson, Henry and 12 more113 min
Jun 12, 6:49 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCAdams, Boone, Bureau, Carroll, Cook, DeKalb and 26 more86 min
Jun 11, 8:05 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCBoone, Bremer, Butler, Cerro Gordo, Chickasaw, Clarke and 24 more115 min
Jun 11, 8:39 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCAdair, Adams, Appanoose, Black Hawk, Boone, Bremer and 39 more5 hr
Jun 11, 8:57 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCAudubon, Carroll, Cass, Crawford, Fremont, Harrison and 6 more93 min
Jun 11, 9:46 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCFremont, Mills, Montgomery, Page5 hr
Jun 11, 9:58 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCAdair, Adams, Appanoose, Black Hawk, Boone, Bremer and 36 more92 min
Jun 11, 11:41 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCAdair, Adams, Allamakee, Appanoose, Benton, Black Hawk and 43 more2 hr
Jun 12, 3:56 AM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCAppanoose, Lucas, Marion, Monroe, Wayne94 min
Jun 11, 7:18 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCBarton, Brown, Clay, Cloud, Dickinson, Edwards and 23 more87 min
Jun 12, 2:26 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCAnderson, Chase, Coffey, Douglas, Franklin, Greenwood and 10 more2 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.