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Tornado Watch 76
The Storm Prediction Center issued this tornado watch at Apr 22, 2010, 6:48 PM MDT for Cheyenne County, Kit Carson County, Yuma County, Colorado; 37 counties in Kansas; Dundy County, Hitchcock County, Red Willow County, Nebraska. It was in force for 5 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Apr 22, 2010, 6:48 PM MDT (00:48 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 22, 2010, 11:20 PM MDT
- In force
- 5 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
- Largest hail expected
- 1.5 in
- Strongest gust expected
- 60 kt
All 43 counties
Cheyenne County, CO, Kit Carson County, CO, Yuma County, CO, Barber County, KS, Cheyenne County, KS, Clark County, KS, Comanche County, KS, Decatur 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, Haskell County, KS, Hodgeman County, KS, Kearny County, KS, Kiowa County, KS, Lane County, KS, Logan County, KS, Meade County, KS, Ness County, KS, Norton County, KS, Pawnee County, KS, Pratt County, KS, Rawlins County, KS, Rush County, KS, Scott County, KS, Seward County, KS, Sheridan County, KS, Sherman County, KS, Stafford County, KS, Stevens County, KS, Thomas County, KS, Trego County, KS, Wallace County, KS, Wichita County, KS, Dundy County, NE, Hitchcock County, NE, Red Willow County, NE
The radar
The Goodland radar (KGLD), 74 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:50 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
- 30%
- One or more EF2 to EF5 tornadoes
- 20%
- Ten or more severe wind reports
- 30%
- One or more gusts of 65 knots or more
- 10%
- Ten or more severe hail reports
- 40%
- One or more hailstones of 2 inches or more
- 20%
- Six or more combined severe hail and wind reports
- 70%
Warnings issued inside it
11 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 22, 6:51 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | GLD | Kit Carson | 24 min |
| Apr 22, 7:17 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | DDC | Lane | 28 min |
| Apr 22, 7:20 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | GLD | Gove | 44 min |
| Apr 22, 7:23 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Clark, Meade | 52 min |
| Apr 22, 7:28 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Finney | 22 min |
| Apr 22, 7:31 PM MDT | Flash Flood Warning | GLD | Graham, Sheridan | 3 hr |
| Apr 22, 7:50 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Lane, Scott | 40 min |
| Apr 22, 8:02 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | GLD | Gove | 21 min |
| Apr 22, 8:09 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Clark, Comanche | 51 min |
| Apr 22, 8:59 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Comanche, Kiowa | 18 min |
| Apr 22, 9:24 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Trego | 19 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 00:00Z, 0.8 hours before the alert went out and 170 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
- 966 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -23 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 773 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 64 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 320 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 401 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 2.4
- Supercell composite
- 12.4
SPC that day
Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 22, 10:17 PM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Yuma | 58 min |
| Apr 23, 10:43 AM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Phillips, Sedgwick, Yuma | 62 min |
| Apr 23, 3:10 PM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Logan, Phillips, Sedgwick, Washington, Yuma | 95 min |
| Apr 23, 12:18 PM MDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Adams, Arthur, Blaine, Boone, Brown, Buffalo and 35 more | 7 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.