Alert archive / Kansas / Severe Thunderstorm Watches in 2009
Severe Thunderstorm Watch 649
The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at Aug 2, 2009, 5:12 PM CDT for 27 counties in Kansas; Beaver County, Texas County, Oklahoma; 4 counties in Texas. It was in force for 7 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Aug 2, 2009, 5:12 PM CDT (22:12 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 3, 2009, 12:00 AM CDT
- In force
- 7 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
- Largest hail expected
- 2.5 in
- Strongest gust expected
- 60 kt
All 33 counties
Clark County, KS, Edwards County, KS, Ellis County, KS, Finney County, KS, Ford County, KS, Gove County, KS, Graham County, KS, Grant County, KS, Gray County, KS, Haskell County, KS, Hodgeman County, KS, Kearny County, KS, Lane County, KS, Meade County, KS, Morton County, KS, Ness County, KS, Norton County, KS, Osborne County, KS, Pawnee County, KS, Phillips County, KS, Rooks County, KS, Rush County, KS, Scott County, KS, Seward County, KS, Smith County, KS, Stevens County, KS, Trego County, KS, Beaver County, OK, Texas County, OK, Hansford County, TX, Lipscomb County, TX, Ochiltree County, TX, Sherman County, TX
The radar
The Dodge City radar (KDDC), 75 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:14 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
- 20%
- One or more EF2 to EF5 tornadoes
- 5%
- Ten or more severe wind reports
- 30%
- One or more gusts of 65 knots or more
- 30%
- Ten or more severe hail reports
- 30%
- One or more hailstones of 2 inches or more
- 20%
- Six or more combined severe hail and wind reports
- 80%
Warnings issued inside it
22 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 2, 5:12 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Gove, Sheridan | 63 min |
| Aug 2, 5:40 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AMA | Texas | 65 min |
| Aug 2, 6:25 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Gove | 65 min |
| Aug 2, 6:30 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | GLD | Gove | 6 hr |
| Aug 2, 6:34 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Finney, Gray, Haskell, Meade | 41 min |
| Aug 2, 6:47 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AMA | Texas | 58 min |
| Aug 2, 7:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Gove | 48 min |
| Aug 2, 7:14 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Finney, Gray, Haskell, Meade | 46 min |
| Aug 2, 7:52 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Hodgeman, Ness, Pawnee, Rush | 53 min |
| Aug 2, 7:57 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Gray, Haskell, Meade, Seward | 48 min |
| Aug 2, 8:12 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Gove | 30 min |
| Aug 2, 8:36 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Hodgeman, Ness, Pawnee, Rush | 39 min |
| Aug 2, 8:38 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DDC | Haskell, Meade, Seward | 37 min |
| Aug 2, 9:12 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Edwards, Hodgeman, Ness, Pawnee | 48 min |
| Aug 2, 9:12 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Seward | 48 min |
| Aug 2, 9:44 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AMA | Beaver, Texas | 61 min |
| Aug 2, 9:58 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Edwards, Ford, Hodgeman | 47 min |
| Aug 2, 10:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Meade, Seward | 30 min |
| Aug 2, 10:04 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AMA | Beaver, Texas | 56 min |
| Aug 2, 10:30 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AMA | Hemphill, Lipscomb | 45 min |
| Aug 2, 10:43 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AMA | Beaver, Texas | 62 min |
| Aug 2, 10:44 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Edwards, Ford, Kiowa | 20 min |
Discussions around it
SPC mesoscale discussions over the same counties from four hours before the watch to its end.
SPC that day
Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 2, 3:05 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Finney, Gove, Graham, Grant, Gray, Hamilton and 15 more | 2 hr |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Watches in Kansas, 2009Severe Thunderstorm Watches in Texas, 2009Severe Thunderstorm Watches in Oklahoma, 2009Every severe thunderstorm watch in 2009
Sources
The product and its follow-ups from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service and Storm Prediction Center text; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.