Alert archive / Kansas / Tornado Watches in 2009
Tornado Watch 358
The Storm Prediction Center issued this tornado watch at Jun 9, 2009, 2:34 PM CDT for 23 counties in Kansas; 18 counties in Oklahoma. It was in force for 7 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 9, 2009, 2:34 PM CDT (19:34 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 9, 2009, 10:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 7 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
- Largest hail expected
- 3 in
- Strongest gust expected
- 60 kt
All 41 counties
Allen County, KS, Barber County, KS, Butler County, KS, Chautauqua County, KS, Comanche County, KS, Cowley County, KS, Edwards County, KS, Elk County, KS, Greenwood County, KS, Harper County, KS, Harvey County, KS, Kingman County, KS, Kiowa County, KS, Labette County, KS, Montgomery County, KS, Neosho County, KS, Pratt County, KS, Reno County, KS, Sedgwick County, KS, Stafford County, KS, Sumner County, KS, Wilson County, KS, Woodson County, KS, Alfalfa County, OK, Blaine County, OK, Craig County, OK, Garfield County, OK, Grant County, OK, Kay County, OK, Kingfisher County, OK, Lincoln County, OK, Logan County, OK, Major County, OK, Noble County, OK, Nowata County, OK, Osage County, OK, Ottawa County, OK, Pawnee County, OK, Payne County, OK, Washington County, OK, Woods County, OK
The radar
The Wichita radar (KICT), 31 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:34 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
- 70%
- One or more EF2 to EF5 tornadoes
- 40%
- Ten or more severe wind reports
- 50%
- One or more gusts of 65 knots or more
- 40%
- Ten or more severe hail reports
- 80%
- One or more hailstones of 2 inches or more
- 70%
- Six or more combined severe hail and wind reports
- 95%
Warnings issued inside it
30 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 9, 2:35 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Allen, Neosho, Wilson | 55 min |
| Jun 9, 3:08 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Allen, Neosho | 37 min |
| Jun 9, 3:39 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Neosho | 36 min |
| Jun 9, 5:12 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Blaine, Kingfisher | 63 min |
| Jun 9, 5:31 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Alfalfa, Grant, Woods | 59 min |
| Jun 9, 5:36 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Kay | 54 min |
| Jun 9, 5:40 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Allen, Neosho, Wilson, Woodson | 45 min |
| Jun 9, 6:07 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Edwards, Ford, Hodgeman | 38 min |
| Jun 9, 6:12 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Grant | 48 min |
| Jun 9, 6:24 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Elk | 66 min |
| Jun 9, 6:27 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Edwards, Ford, Kiowa | 48 min |
| Jun 9, 6:28 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ICT | Elk | 32 min |
| Jun 9, 6:30 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Kay | 26 min |
| Jun 9, 6:40 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DDC | Edwards, Ford, Kiowa | 35 min |
| Jun 9, 6:54 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Elk, Montgomery, Wilson | 66 min |
| Jun 9, 6:59 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Butler, Chautauqua, Cowley | 29 min |
| Jun 9, 6:59 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Garfield, Grant, Kay, Noble | 61 min |
| Jun 9, 7:03 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Sumner | 57 min |
| Jun 9, 7:14 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Allen, Labette, Neosho | 61 min |
| Jun 9, 7:17 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | ICT | Elk, Wilson | 6 hr |
| Jun 9, 7:19 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Osage, Pawnee | 48 min |
| Jun 9, 7:24 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | ICT | Neosho, Wilson | 4 hr |
| Jun 9, 7:29 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Cowley, Sumner | 31 min |
| Jun 9, 7:57 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Butler, Cowley | 11 min |
| Jun 9, 8:10 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | ICT | Labette, Montgomery | 6 hr |
| Jun 9, 8:14 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Labette, Neosho | 31 min |
| Jun 9, 8:21 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Osage | 54 min |
| Jun 9, 8:54 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Ottawa | 66 min |
| Jun 9, 9:05 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Craig, Delaware, Nowata, Ottawa | 40 min |
| Jun 9, 9:45 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Craig, Delaware, Ottawa | 60 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
Lamont, OK (KLMN), launched 12:00Z, 7.6 hours before the alert went out and 118 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
- 1302 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -294 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 942 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 35 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 154 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 208 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.9
SPC that day
Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 9, 7:16 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Atchison, Brown, Clay, Cloud, Dickinson, Douglas and 32 more | 59 min |
| Jun 9, 8:40 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Allen, Anderson, Bourbon, Chase, Clay, Cloud and 22 more | 65 min |
| Jun 9, 9:02 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Allen, Anderson, Atchison, Bourbon, Brown, Chase and 34 more | 6 hr |
| Jun 9, 11:11 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Allen, Anderson, Atchison, Bourbon, Brown, Butler and 38 more | 94 min |
| Jun 9, 12:59 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Bourbon, Linn | 91 min |
| Jun 9, 1:31 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Bourbon, Cherokee, Crawford | 8 hr |
| Jun 9, 1:34 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Barber, Butler, Chautauqua, Cowley, Edwards, Elk and 15 more | 86 min |
| Jun 9, 6:22 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Allen, Barber, Bourbon, Butler, Chautauqua, Cherokee and 23 more | 53 min |
Nearby
Tornado Watches in Kansas, 2009Tornado Watches in Oklahoma, 2009Every tornado 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.