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Tornado Watch 411

June 14, 200936 counties in Kansas; 6 counties in Oklahoma; 4 counties in Texas

The Storm Prediction Center issued this tornado watch at Jun 14, 2009, 4:11 PM CDT for 36 counties in Kansas; 6 counties in Oklahoma; 4 counties in Texas. It was in force for 7 hr.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued
Jun 14, 2009, 4:11 PM CDT (21:11 UTC)
Expired
Jun 14, 2009, 11:00 PM CDT
In force
7 hr
Issued by
the Storm Prediction Center
Largest hail expected
3.5 in
Strongest gust expected
70 kt
All 46 counties

Barber County, KS, Clark County, KS, Comanche 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, Greeley County, KS, Hamilton County, KS, Haskell County, KS, Hodgeman County, KS, Kearny County, KS, Kiowa County, KS, Lane County, KS, Logan County, KS, Meade County, KS, Morton County, KS, Ness County, KS, Pawnee County, KS, Pratt County, KS, Rush County, KS, Scott County, KS, Seward County, KS, Sheridan County, KS, Sherman County, KS, Stafford County, KS, Stanton County, KS, Stevens County, KS, Thomas County, KS, Trego County, KS, Wallace County, KS, Wichita County, KS, Beaver County, OK, Ellis County, OK, Harper County, OK, Texas County, OK, Woods County, OK, Woodward County, OK, Hansford County, TX, Lipscomb County, TX, Ochiltree County, TX, Sherman County, TX

The radar

The Dodge City radar (KDDC), 74 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:14 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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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
60%
One or more EF2 to EF5 tornadoes
30%
Ten or more severe wind reports
70%
One or more gusts of 65 knots or more
30%
Ten or more severe hail reports
80%
One or more hailstones of 2 inches or more
50%
Six or more combined severe hail and wind reports
90%

Warnings issued inside it

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 14, 4:24 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCGrant, Hamilton, Kearny, Stanton51 min
Jun 14, 5:15 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCFinney, Grant, Haskell, Kearny45 min
Jun 14, 5:25 PM CDTTornado WarningDDCHaskell35 min
Jun 14, 5:46 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCGray, Haskell, Meade, Seward44 min
Jun 14, 5:50 PM CDTTornado WarningDDCGray, Haskell, Meade25 min
Jun 14, 6:28 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCClark, Ford, Gray, Meade47 min
Jun 14, 6:58 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningAMAHansford, Hutchinson, Ochiltree47 min
Jun 14, 7:52 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCComanche, Kiowa38 min
Jun 14, 8:04 PM CDTTornado WarningDDCComanche, Kiowa26 min
Jun 14, 8:27 PM CDTTornado WarningDDCBarber, Comanche33 min
Jun 14, 8:29 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCBarber, Comanche, Kiowa, Pratt46 min
Jun 14, 9:38 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGLDSherman67 min
Jun 14, 10:23 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGLDSherman, Thomas52 min
Jun 14, 10:52 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningAMABeaver25 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 12:00Z, 9.2 hours before the alert went out and 80 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, Dodge City, at 12:00Z on 2009-06-14Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 418 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 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, Dodge City, at 12:00Z on 2009-06-14The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 228 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
418 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-93 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
760 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
44 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
228 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
375 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
5.3

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SPC that day

Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 13, 7:46 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCClark, Comanche, Finney, Ford, Gove, Grant and 15 more59 min
Jun 13, 10:18 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCBarber, Barton, Comanche, Cowley, Edwards, Ford and 14 more57 min
Jun 13, 11:59 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCBarton, Cheyenne, Edwards, Ellis, Ellsworth, Gove and 20 more91 min
Jun 14, 1:03 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPCBarber, Clark, Comanche, Edwards, Finney, Ford and 13 more3 hr
Jun 14, 2:51 AM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCBarber, Clark, Comanche, Edwards, Finney, Ford and 13 more84 min
Jun 14, 1:05 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCGrant, Greeley, Hamilton, Haskell, Kearny, Morton and 4 more85 min
Jun 14, 5:48 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCCheyenne, Decatur, Finney, Gove, Graham, Grant and 14 more117 min
Jun 13, 8:19 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPCAlfalfa, Atoka, Blaine, Bryan, Caddo, Canadian and 34 more8 hr
Jun 13, 10:33 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCAdair, Cherokee, Creek, Delaware, Haskell, Latimer and 15 more57 min
Jun 13, 11:02 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPCAdair, Cherokee, Choctaw, Craig, Creek, Delaware and 20 more6 hr
Jun 14, 6:18 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCBeckham, Comanche, Cotton, Custer, Greer, Harmon and 5 more57 min
Jun 14, 6:50 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPCBeckham, Blaine, Caddo, Comanche, Cotton, Custer and 8 more7 hr
Jun 14, 2:04 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCAndrews, Armstrong, Bailey, Borden, Briscoe, Castro and 24 more56 min
Jun 14, 2:20 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPCAndrews, Armstrong, Bailey, Borden, Briscoe, Carson and 44 more7 hr
Jun 14, 5:13 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCAndrews, Armstrong, Bailey, Borden, Briscoe, Carson and 46 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.