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Severe Thunderstorm Watch 608
The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at Jul 20, 2009, 6:26 PM MDT for Cheyenne County, Kit Carson County, Colorado; 22 counties in Kansas. It was in force for 3 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 20, 2009, 6:26 PM MDT (00:26 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 20, 2009, 9:55 PM MDT
- In force
- 3 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
- Largest hail expected
- 2 in
- Strongest gust expected
- 70 kt
All 24 counties
Cheyenne County, CO, Kit Carson County, CO, Clark County, KS, Comanche County, KS, Finney County, KS, Ford County, KS, Gove County, KS, Grant County, KS, Gray County, KS, Greeley County, KS, Hamilton County, KS, Haskell County, KS, Hodgeman County, KS, Kearny County, KS, Lane County, KS, Logan County, KS, Meade County, KS, Morton County, KS, Scott County, KS, Seward County, KS, Stanton County, KS, Stevens County, KS, Wallace County, KS, Wichita County, KS
The radar
The Goodland radar (KGLD), 90 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:28 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
- 10%
- One or more EF2 to EF5 tornadoes
- 2%
- Ten or more severe wind reports
- 80%
- One or more gusts of 65 knots or more
- 50%
- Ten or more severe hail reports
- 40%
- One or more hailstones of 2 inches or more
- 20%
- Six or more combined severe hail and wind reports
- 95%
Warnings issued inside it
10 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 20, 6:32 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | GLD | Cheyenne, Sherman, Wallace | 43 min |
| Jul 20, 6:54 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Logan, Wallace, Wichita | 66 min |
| Jul 20, 7:01 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | GLD | Logan, Sherman, Thomas, Wallace | 41 min |
| Jul 20, 7:06 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Cheyenne, Kit Carson | 34 min |
| Jul 20, 7:32 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | GLD | Logan, Wallace, Wichita | 28 min |
| Jul 20, 7:34 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Finney, Kearny, Scott | 71 min |
| Jul 20, 7:57 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Wichita | 34 min |
| Jul 20, 8:20 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Barber, Comanche | 40 min |
| Jul 20, 8:26 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Finney, Grant, Haskell, Kearny, Seward, Stevens | 64 min |
| Jul 20, 9:15 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Finney, Grant, Haskell, Kearny, Seward, Stevens | 45 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 00:00Z, 0.4 hours before the alert went out and 180 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
- 3408 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -1 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 2037 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 48 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -7 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 71 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 5.1
SPC that day
Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 20, 10:56 PM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Adams, Arapahoe, Broomfield, Denver, Elbert | 94 min |
| Jul 21, 2:44 PM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Adams, Alamosa, Arapahoe, Boulder, Broomfield, Costilla and 13 more | 61 min |
| Jul 21, 4:59 PM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Baca, Bent, Crowley, Kiowa, Las Animas, Lincoln and 3 more | 91 min |
| Jul 20, 6:16 PM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Finney, Grant, Gray, Greeley, Hamilton, Haskell and 8 more | 59 min |
| Jul 20, 7:26 PM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Barton, Butler, Chase, Chautauqua, Cherokee, Cowley and 24 more | 94 min |
| Jul 21, 12:34 AM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Butler, Chautauqua, Cowley, Elk, Greenwood, Harper and 4 more | 86 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.