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Tornado Watch 399
The Storm Prediction Center issued this tornado watch at Jun 13, 2009, 3:59 PM MDT for 5 states. It was in force for 8 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 13, 2009, 3:59 PM MDT (21:59 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 14, 2009, 12:00 AM MDT
- In force
- 8 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
- Largest hail expected
- 3 in
- Strongest gust expected
- 70 kt
All 55 counties
Baca County, CO, Bent County, CO, Cheyenne County, CO, Crowley County, CO, Kiowa County, CO, Kit Carson County, CO, Las Animas County, CO, Otero County, CO, Prowers County, CO, Pueblo County, CO, Yuma County, CO, Clark County, KS, Finney County, KS, Grant County, KS, Gray County, KS, Greeley County, KS, Hamilton County, KS, Haskell County, KS, Kearny County, KS, Meade County, KS, Morton County, KS, Seward County, KS, Stanton County, KS, Stevens County, KS, Wallace County, KS, Colfax County, NM, Harding County, NM, Quay County, NM, Union County, NM, Beaver County, OK, Beckham County, OK, Cimarron County, OK, Ellis County, OK, Roger Mills County, OK, Texas County, OK, Armstrong County, TX, Carson County, TX, Collingsworth County, TX, Dallam County, TX, Deaf Smith County, TX, Donley County, TX, Gray County, TX, Hansford County, TX, Hartley County, TX, Hemphill County, TX, Hutchinson County, TX, Lipscomb County, TX, Moore County, TX, Ochiltree County, TX, Oldham County, TX, Potter County, TX, Randall County, TX, Roberts County, TX, Sherman County, TX, Wheeler County, TX
The radar
The Pueblo radar (KPUX), 138 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:00 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
- 40%
- One or more EF2 to EF5 tornadoes
- 30%
- Ten or more severe wind reports
- 50%
- One or more gusts of 65 knots or more
- 30%
- Ten or more severe hail reports
- 90%
- One or more hailstones of 2 inches or more
- 50%
- Six or more combined severe hail and wind reports
- 95%
Warnings issued inside it
42 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 13, 4:32 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | Baca, Las Animas | 58 min |
| Jun 13, 4:50 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | PUB | Baca, Las Animas | 23 min |
| Jun 13, 5:01 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | Baca, Bent, Las Animas | 46 min |
| Jun 13, 5:02 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AMA | Carson, Potter | 58 min |
| Jun 13, 5:27 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AMA | Armstrong, Donley | 44 min |
| Jun 13, 5:29 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | Baca, Las Animas | 61 min |
| Jun 13, 5:50 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AMA | Hutchinson, Moore, Potter | 55 min |
| Jun 13, 5:53 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AMA | Armstrong, Carson, Donley, Gray | 52 min |
| Jun 13, 6:04 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AMA | Carson, Hutchinson, Moore, Potter | 56 min |
| Jun 13, 6:14 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABQ | Union | 35 min |
| Jun 13, 6:21 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | PUB | Baca | 54 min |
| Jun 13, 6:21 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | AMA | Gray | 24 min |
| Jun 13, 6:27 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AMA | Hansford, Hutchinson, Moore, Sherman | 63 min |
| Jun 13, 6:34 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AMA | Cimarron | 39 min |
| Jun 13, 6:36 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | Bent, Kiowa, Prowers | 63 min |
| Jun 13, 6:46 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | PUB | Bent, Kiowa, Prowers | 59 min |
| Jun 13, 6:49 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Morton, Stanton | 56 min |
| Jun 13, 6:55 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AMA | Carson, Gray, Hutchinson, Roberts | 37 min |
| Jun 13, 7:01 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | DDC | Morton | 29 min |
| Jun 13, 7:05 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AMA | Texas | 55 min |
| Jun 13, 7:16 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | Kiowa, Prowers | 24 min |
| Jun 13, 7:31 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | DDC | Morton | 29 min |
| Jun 13, 7:39 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Morton, Stevens | 66 min |
| Jun 13, 7:52 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Meade, Seward, Stevens | 53 min |
| Jun 13, 7:54 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AMA | Beaver, Texas | 21 min |
| Jun 13, 8:42 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Seward, Stevens | 48 min |
| Jun 13, 8:57 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AMA | Beaver, Texas | 63 min |
| Jun 13, 9:07 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | AMA | Beaver | 38 min |
| Jun 13, 9:26 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | Bent, Kiowa, Prowers | 64 min |
| Jun 13, 9:34 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | AMA | Beaver | 41 min |
| Jun 13, 9:39 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | Baca, Bent, Las Animas, Prowers | 66 min |
| Jun 13, 10:02 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AMA | Beaver | 58 min |
| Jun 13, 10:27 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | Kiowa, Prowers | 33 min |
| Jun 13, 10:28 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | AMA | Beaver | 32 min |
| Jun 13, 10:36 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Hamilton | 54 min |
| Jun 13, 10:43 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Greeley | 47 min |
| Jun 13, 10:45 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | Baca, Bent, Las Animas, Prowers | 60 min |
| Jun 13, 10:47 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Ellis, Harper, Woodward | 58 min |
| Jun 13, 10:48 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AMA | Beaver | 27 min |
| Jun 13, 11:10 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Kit Carson | 65 min |
| Jun 13, 11:21 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Finney, Hamilton, Kearny | 54 min |
| Jun 13, 11:35 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | Baca, Bent, Las Animas, Prowers | 83 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
Denver, CO (KDNR), launched 12:00Z, 10.0 hours before the alert went out and 254 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
- 212 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -81 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 711 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 38 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 105 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 136 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.4
SPC that day
Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 12, 6:56 PM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Adams, Arapahoe, Baca, Bent, Cheyenne, Crowley and 18 more | 64 min |
| Jun 13, 12:41 PM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Adams, Arapahoe, Broomfield, Denver, Douglas, Elbert and 4 more | 64 min |
| Jun 13, 1:56 PM MDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Adams, Arapahoe, Boulder, Broomfield, Denver, Douglas and 10 more | 9 hr |
| Jun 13, 2:19 PM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Baca, Las Animas, Otero | 86 min |
| Jun 13, 6:43 AM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Barber, Clark, Comanche, Ford, Harper, Kingman and 3 more | 62 min |
| Jun 12, 7:54 PM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Bryan, Carter, Jefferson, Johnston, Love, Marshall | 66 min |
| Jun 12, 9:08 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Adair, Atoka, Canadian, Cherokee, Cleveland, Coal and 28 more | 7 hr |
| Jun 12, 10:10 PM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | McCurtain | 65 min |
| Jun 13, 2:25 AM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Adair, Atoka, Canadian, Cherokee, Cleveland, Coal and 23 more | 65 min |
| Jun 13, 2:15 PM MDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Greer, Harmon, Jackson, Kiowa, Tillman | 8 hr |
| Jun 12, 6:13 PM MDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Blanco, Burnet, Gillespie, Llano | 5 hr |
| Jun 12, 10:48 PM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Blanco, Burnet, Gillespie, Llano, McCulloch, Mason and 1 more | 57 min |
| Jun 13, 1:40 PM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Briscoe, Childress, Cottle, Crosby, Dickens, Floyd and 8 more | 95 min |
| Jun 13, 2:45 PM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Andrews, Crane, Ector, Gaines, Glasscock, Martin and 6 more | 90 min |
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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.