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Tornado Watch 423
The Storm Prediction Center issued this tornado watch at Jun 15, 2009, 3:12 PM CDT for 24 counties in Kansas; 7 counties in Oklahoma; 36 counties in Texas. It was in force for 8 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 15, 2009, 3:12 PM CDT (20:12 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 15, 2009, 11:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 8 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
- Largest hail expected
- 3 in
- Strongest gust expected
- 70 kt
All 67 counties
Barber County, KS, Clark County, KS, Comanche County, KS, Edwards County, KS, Ellis County, KS, Finney County, KS, Ford County, KS, Grant County, KS, Gray County, KS, Haskell County, KS, Hodgeman County, KS, Kearny County, KS, Kiowa County, KS, Lane County, KS, Meade County, KS, Ness County, KS, Pawnee County, KS, Pratt County, KS, Rush County, KS, Scott County, KS, Seward County, KS, Stafford County, KS, Stevens County, KS, Trego County, KS, Beaver County, OK, Beckham County, OK, Ellis County, OK, Harper County, OK, Roger Mills County, OK, Texas County, OK, Woodward County, OK, Armstrong County, TX, Briscoe County, TX, Carson County, TX, Castro County, TX, Childress County, TX, Collingsworth County, TX, Cottle County, TX, Crosby County, TX, Dickens County, TX, Donley County, TX, Floyd County, TX, Garza County, TX, Gray County, TX, Hale County, TX, Hall County, TX, Hansford County, TX, Hemphill County, TX, Hockley County, TX, Hutchinson County, TX, Kent County, TX, King County, TX, Lamb County, TX, Lipscomb County, TX, Lubbock County, TX, Lynn County, TX, Moore County, TX, Motley County, TX, Ochiltree County, TX, Potter County, TX, Randall County, TX, Roberts County, TX, Sherman County, TX, Stonewall County, TX, Swisher County, TX, Terry County, TX, Wheeler County, TX
The radar
The Dodge City radar (KDDC), 146 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:15 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
- 20%
- Ten or more severe wind reports
- 30%
- One or more gusts of 65 knots or more
- 30%
- Ten or more severe hail reports
- 40%
- One or more hailstones of 2 inches or more
- 30%
- Six or more combined severe hail and wind reports
- 70%
Warnings issued inside it
44 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 15, 3:34 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Finney, Grant, Haskell, Kearny | 41 min |
| Jun 15, 3:45 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Finney, Ford, Gray, Hodgeman | 45 min |
| Jun 15, 3:54 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Finney, Grant, Gray, Haskell | 51 min |
| Jun 15, 4:07 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AMA | Beaver, Texas | 53 min |
| Jun 15, 4:13 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Swisher | 47 min |
| Jun 15, 4:19 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AMA | Armstrong, Randall | 42 min |
| Jun 15, 4:20 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Edwards, Hodgeman, Pawnee | 40 min |
| Jun 15, 4:23 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DDC | Ford, Hodgeman | 37 min |
| Jun 15, 4:26 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AMA | Beaver | 64 min |
| Jun 15, 4:31 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Finney, Kearny | 20 min |
| Jun 15, 4:39 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DDC | Gray | 36 min |
| Jun 15, 4:46 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Ford, Gray | 44 min |
| Jun 15, 4:51 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Finney, Hodgeman, Lane, Ness | 39 min |
| Jun 15, 4:54 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DDC | Edwards, Ford, Hodgeman, Pawnee | 36 min |
| Jun 15, 5:02 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Edwards, Hodgeman, Ness, Pawnee | 30 min |
| Jun 15, 5:14 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Ford, Gray, Hodgeman | 46 min |
| Jun 15, 5:15 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AMA | Beaver | 60 min |
| Jun 15, 5:28 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DDC | Ford | 32 min |
| Jun 15, 5:31 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Hodgeman, Ness, Pawnee, Rush | 8 min |
| Jun 15, 5:31 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DDC | Edwards, Pawnee | 44 min |
| Jun 15, 5:36 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AMA | Hansford, Lipscomb, Ochiltree, Roberts | 54 min |
| Jun 15, 5:39 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Edwards, Pawnee | 36 min |
| Jun 15, 5:47 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Edwards, Ford, Hodgeman, Kiowa | 43 min |
| Jun 15, 5:59 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DDC | Edwards | 31 min |
| Jun 15, 6:02 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Cottle, Hall, Motley | 58 min |
| Jun 15, 6:05 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DDC | Edwards, Pawnee, Pratt, Stafford | 25 min |
| Jun 15, 6:09 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Dickens, King | 66 min |
| Jun 15, 6:11 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AMA | Beaver | 64 min |
| Jun 15, 6:24 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Clark, Comanche, Edwards, Ford, Kiowa | 51 min |
| Jun 15, 6:25 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | AMA | Lipscomb, Ochiltree | 35 min |
| Jun 15, 6:26 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Crosby, Dickens, Garza | 64 min |
| Jun 15, 6:36 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DDC | Stafford | 39 min |
| Jun 15, 6:44 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Edwards, Kiowa, Pawnee, Pratt, Stafford | 46 min |
| Jun 15, 6:50 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Ellis | 22 min |
| Jun 15, 7:06 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Clark, Edwards, Ford, Hodgeman, Kiowa, Pawnee and 2 more | 39 min |
| Jun 15, 7:12 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Dickens | 48 min |
| Jun 15, 7:17 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Cottle | 43 min |
| Jun 15, 7:43 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Edwards, Ford, Pawnee | 47 min |
| Jun 15, 7:52 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Cottle | 54 min |
| Jun 15, 7:57 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Dickens, King | 63 min |
| Jun 15, 8:15 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AMA | Beaver | 60 min |
| Jun 15, 8:23 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Edwards, Pawnee, Stafford | 19 min |
| Jun 15, 8:46 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Ellis, Harper | 37 min |
| Jun 15, 9:23 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Cottle | 52 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, 8.2 hours before the alert went out and 150 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
- 848 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -290 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1324 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 32 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 119 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 76 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
SPC that day
Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 14, 7:46 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Cheyenne, Decatur, Gove, Graham, Greeley, Logan and 7 more | 5 hr |
| Jun 14, 10:36 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Atchison, Barton, Brown, Chase, Clay, Cloud and 42 more | 114 min |
| Jun 14, 10:54 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Allen, Butler, Chase, Chautauqua, Cowley, Elk and 9 more | 5 hr |
| Jun 14, 11:45 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Brown, Clay, Cloud, Dickinson, Ellsworth, Geary and 21 more | 7 hr |
| Jun 15, 2:31 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Allen, Anderson, Bourbon, Butler, Chase, Chautauqua and 14 more | 59 min |
| Jun 15, 3:55 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Anderson, Atchison, Clay, Cloud, Coffey, Dickinson and 25 more | 65 min |
| Jun 15, 6:24 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Atchison, Dickinson, Douglas, Franklin, Geary, Jackson and 13 more | 96 min |
| Jun 15, 11:59 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Allen, Anderson, Bourbon, Cherokee, Crawford, Labette and 2 more | 61 min |
| Jun 15, 12:52 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Bourbon, Cherokee, Crawford | 9 hr |
| Jun 15, 2:57 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Cloud, Jewell, Marshall, Norton, Phillips, Republic and 2 more | 63 min |
| Jun 15, 3:34 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Cheyenne, Decatur, Gove, Graham, Greeley, Jewell and 13 more | 8 hr |
| Jun 15, 5:04 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Allen, Anderson, Butler, Chase, Chautauqua, Clay and 38 more | 86 min |
| Jun 15, 6:01 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Allen, Anderson, Barton, Brown, Butler, Chase and 43 more | 6 hr |
| Jun 15, 6:19 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Decatur, Jewell, Norton, Phillips, Rawlins, Republic and 1 more | 86 min |
| Jun 15, 6:50 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Bourbon, Cherokee, Crawford | 85 min |
| Jun 15, 5:24 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Beckham, Ellis, Harmon, Roger Mills | 96 min |
| Jun 14, 8:12 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Briscoe, Childress, Cottle, Crosby, Floyd, Hale and 6 more | 63 min |
| Jun 14, 8:52 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Armstrong, Bailey, Briscoe, Castro, Childress, Cochran and 14 more | 4 hr |
| Jun 14, 11:50 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Bailey, Cochran | 46 min |
| Jun 15, 2:23 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Armstrong, Bailey, Briscoe, Carson, Castro, Cochran and 15 more | 67 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.