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Tornado Watch 311

June 13, 201013 counties in Kansas; 8 counties in Oklahoma; 9 counties in Texas

The Storm Prediction Center issued this tornado watch at Jun 13, 2010, 2:02 PM CDT for 13 counties in Kansas; 8 counties in Oklahoma; 9 counties in Texas. It was in force for 8 hr.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued
Jun 13, 2010, 2:02 PM CDT (19:02 UTC)
Expired
Jun 13, 2010, 10:00 PM CDT
In force
8 hr
Issued by
the Storm Prediction Center
Largest hail expected
3 in
Strongest gust expected
70 kt
All 30 counties

Barber County, KS, Clark County, KS, Comanche County, KS, Edwards County, KS, Ford County, KS, Gray County, KS, Hodgeman County, KS, Kiowa County, KS, Meade County, KS, Pawnee County, KS, Pratt County, KS, Seward County, KS, Stafford County, KS, Beaver County, OK, Dewey County, OK, Ellis County, OK, Harper County, OK, Roger Mills County, OK, Texas County, OK, Woods County, OK, Woodward County, OK, Carson County, TX, Gray County, TX, Hansford County, TX, Hemphill County, TX, Hutchinson County, TX, Lipscomb County, TX, Ochiltree County, TX, Roberts County, TX, Wheeler County, TX

The radar

The Dodge City radar (KDDC), 138 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:04 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
50%
One or more EF2 to EF5 tornadoes
30%
Ten or more severe wind reports
40%
One or more gusts of 65 knots or more
40%
Ten or more severe hail reports
40%
One or more hailstones of 2 inches or more
40%
Six or more combined severe hail and wind reports
80%

Warnings issued inside it

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 13, 3:11 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningAMABeaver79 min
Jun 13, 3:56 PM CDTTornado WarningAMABeaver49 min
Jun 13, 4:05 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningAMABeaver55 min
Jun 13, 4:23 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningAMAHansford, Hutchinson, Ochiltree, Roberts67 min
Jun 13, 4:33 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningAMABeaver57 min
Jun 13, 4:35 PM CDTTornado WarningAMABeaver40 min
Jun 13, 4:37 PM CDTTornado WarningOUNHarper53 min
Jun 13, 4:40 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningAMAHansford, Hutchinson, Ochiltree, Roberts4 hr
Jun 13, 4:54 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningAMABeaver66 min
Jun 13, 4:58 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningAMABeaver62 min
Jun 13, 5:19 PM CDTTornado WarningAMABeaver41 min
Jun 13, 5:28 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCClark, Comanche47 min
Jun 13, 5:29 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningAMABeaver3 hr
Jun 13, 5:29 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOUNHarper, Woods61 min
Jun 13, 5:50 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningAMAHansford, Hutchinson, Ochiltree, Roberts55 min
Jun 13, 5:52 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningAMABeaver53 min
Jun 13, 6:06 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCClark, Comanche, Kiowa39 min
Jun 13, 6:13 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOUNEllis, Harper47 min
Jun 13, 6:30 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCBarber, Comanche, Kiowa, Pratt45 min
Jun 13, 6:31 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOUNWoods22 min
Jun 13, 6:37 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningAMALipscomb, Ochiltree53 min
Jun 13, 6:45 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningAMAOchiltree, Roberts60 min
Jun 13, 6:55 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOUNEllis, Harper, Woods, Woodward65 min
Jun 13, 6:58 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCBarber, Pratt47 min
Jun 13, 7:39 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningAMAHemphill, Lipscomb, Ochiltree, Roberts66 min
Jun 13, 8:43 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningAMAHemphill, Lipscomb, Ochiltree, Roberts2 hr

Discussions around it

SPC mesoscale discussions over the same counties from four hours before the watch to its end.

The nearest sounding before it

Amarillo Airport, TX (KAMA), launched 12:00Z, 7.0 hours before the alert went out and 189 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, Amarillo Airport, TX at 12:00Z on 2010-06-13Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1689 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, Amarillo Airport, TX at 12:00Z on 2010-06-13The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 188 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
1689 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-5 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
782 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
40 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
188 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
182 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
1.6
Supercell composite
8.0

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SPC that day

Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 12, 9:20 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCBarton, Clark, Comanche, Edwards, Ellis, Ellsworth and 34 more55 min
Jun 12, 9:50 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPCClark, Finney, Ford, Gove, Grant, Gray and 17 more6 hr
Jun 13, 1:02 AM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCClark, Ford, Meade, Seward, Stevens58 min
Jun 13, 2:29 AM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCAtchison, Chase, Harvey, Jackson, Jefferson, Kingman and 8 more91 min
Jun 13, 3:19 AM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCClark, Ford, Meade26 min
Jun 13, 12:30 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCAllen, Bourbon, Cherokee, Crawford, Labette, Linn and 1 more30 min
Jun 13, 12:47 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPCBourbon, Crawford, Linn, Miami5 hr
Jun 13, 1:27 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCBarber, Butler, Chautauqua, Clark, Comanche, Cowley and 10 more2 hr
Jun 13, 3:38 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPCClay, Cloud, Decatur, Ellis, Gove, Graham and 18 more3 hr
Jun 13, 3:41 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCBourbon, Crawford, Labette, Neosho, Wilson64 min
Jun 13, 5:58 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCComanche2 hr
Jun 13, 6:18 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCButler, Chase, Cowley, Harper, Harvey, Kingman and 4 more27 min
Jun 13, 6:28 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPCButler, Chase, Cowley, Harper, Harvey, Kingman and 6 more7 hr
Jun 13, 4:37 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPCBeckham, Custer, Greer, Harmon, Jackson, Kiowa and 2 more7 hr
Jun 13, 3:12 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCAndrews, Borden, Crane, Dawson, Ector, Glasscock and 8 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.