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Tornado Watch 293
The Storm Prediction Center issued this tornado watch at Jun 10, 2010, 4:44 PM MDT for 14 counties in Colorado; 23 counties in Kansas; 15 counties in Nebraska. It was in force for 6 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 10, 2010, 4:44 PM MDT (22:44 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 10, 2010, 11:00 PM MDT
- In force
- 6 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
- Largest hail expected
- 3.5 in
- Strongest gust expected
- 70 kt
All 52 counties
Adams County, CO, Arapahoe County, CO, Cheyenne County, CO, Denver County, CO, Elbert County, CO, Kit Carson County, CO, Lincoln County, CO, Logan County, CO, Morgan County, CO, Phillips County, CO, Sedgwick County, CO, Washington County, CO, Weld County, CO, Yuma County, CO, Cheyenne County, KS, Decatur County, KS, Ellis County, KS, Gove County, KS, Graham County, KS, Greeley County, KS, Lane County, KS, Logan County, KS, Ness County, KS, Norton County, KS, Osborne County, KS, Phillips County, KS, Rawlins County, KS, Rooks County, KS, Rush County, KS, Scott County, KS, Sheridan County, KS, Sherman County, KS, Smith County, KS, Thomas County, KS, Trego County, KS, Wallace County, KS, Wichita County, KS, Chase County, NE, Dundy County, NE, Franklin County, NE, Frontier County, NE, Furnas County, NE, Gosper County, NE, Harlan County, NE, Hayes County, NE, Hitchcock County, NE, Kearney County, NE, Keith County, NE, Lincoln County, NE, Perkins County, NE, Phelps County, NE, Red Willow County, NE
The radar
The Goodland radar (KGLD), 103 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:47 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
- 50%
- One or more gusts of 65 knots or more
- 40%
- Ten or more severe hail reports
- 90%
- One or more hailstones of 2 inches or more
- 60%
- Six or more combined severe hail and wind reports
- 95%
Warnings issued inside it
32 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 10, 4:45 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BOU | Arapahoe, Douglas, Elbert | 60 min |
| Jun 10, 4:56 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BOU | Weld | 49 min |
| Jun 10, 5:11 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BOU | Lincoln, Washington | 26 min |
| Jun 10, 5:16 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BOU | Adams, Weld | 59 min |
| Jun 10, 5:40 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | BOU | Adams, Morgan, Weld | 50 min |
| Jun 10, 5:43 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BOU | Arapahoe, Elbert | 62 min |
| Jun 10, 5:49 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BOU | Weld | 56 min |
| Jun 10, 6:11 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BOU | Adams, Broomfield, Jefferson, Weld | 49 min |
| Jun 10, 6:11 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | BOU | Weld | 34 min |
| Jun 10, 6:29 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BOU | Adams, Morgan, Washington | 61 min |
| Jun 10, 6:37 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | BOU | Adams, Arapahoe | 38 min |
| Jun 10, 6:41 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BOU | Adams, Morgan, Washington | 64 min |
| Jun 10, 6:51 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BOU | Adams, Weld | 54 min |
| Jun 10, 7:09 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | BOU | Arapahoe, Washington | 51 min |
| Jun 10, 7:43 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BOU | Morgan, Weld | 46 min |
| Jun 10, 7:45 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BOU | Adams, Morgan, Washington | 60 min |
| Jun 10, 7:48 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | BOU | Washington | 42 min |
| Jun 10, 8:05 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BOU | Adams, Arapahoe, Morgan, Weld | 55 min |
| Jun 10, 8:12 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | BOU | Washington | 48 min |
| Jun 10, 8:53 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Keith, Lincoln | 52 min |
| Jun 10, 8:54 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BOU | Adams, Arapahoe, Morgan, Washington | 66 min |
| Jun 10, 8:55 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | GLD | Yuma | 65 min |
| Jun 10, 8:57 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | BOU | Washington | 48 min |
| Jun 10, 9:00 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Lincoln | 45 min |
| Jun 10, 9:36 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | LBF | Lincoln | 24 min |
| Jun 10, 9:52 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Hayes, Lincoln | 38 min |
| Jun 10, 10:00 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BOU | Washington | 60 min |
| Jun 10, 10:00 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | GLD | Yuma | 44 min |
| Jun 10, 10:18 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Keith | 42 min |
| Jun 10, 10:25 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BOU | Phillips, Sedgwick | 19 min |
| Jun 10, 10:38 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Keith, Lincoln | 37 min |
| Jun 10, 10:54 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BOU | Washington | 36 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, 10.7 hours before the alert went out and 85 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
- 295 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -421 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1939 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 31 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 43 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 29 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 10, 2:25 PM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Cheyenne, Kit Carson, Phillips, Yuma | 2 hr |
| Jun 10, 4:29 PM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Cheyenne, Kiowa, Kit Carson, Lincoln, Yuma | 61 min |
| Jun 9, 8:26 PM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Arthur, Banner, Box Butte, Cherry, Cheyenne, Dawes and 10 more | 64 min |
| Jun 9, 8:45 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Arthur, Box Butte, Cherry, Dawes, Garden, Grant and 7 more | 11 hr |
| Jun 9, 10:52 PM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Arthur, Box Butte, Cherry, Dawes, Garden, Grant and 7 more | 83 min |
| Jun 10, 12:41 AM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Antelope, Arthur, Banner, Blaine, Boone, Box Butte and 22 more | 2 hr |
| Jun 10, 2:16 AM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Antelope, Arthur, Blaine, Boone, Boyd, Brown and 36 more | 7 hr |
| Jun 10, 4:36 AM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Antelope, Blaine, Boone, Brown, Buffalo, Burt and 42 more | 114 min |
| Jun 10, 5:44 AM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Burt, Cass, Cuming, Dakota, Dixon, Dodge and 7 more | 7 hr |
| Jun 10, 9:02 AM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Antelope, Boone, Boyd, Burt, Butler, Cass and 26 more | 88 min |
| Jun 10, 2:53 PM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Banner, Scotts Bluff, Sioux | 67 min |
| Jun 10, 2:02 PM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Lincoln, Sublette, Teton, Uinta | 58 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.