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Severe Thunderstorm Watch 464

June 11, 20114 states

The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at Jun 11, 2011, 3:35 PM MDT for 4 states. It was in force for 6 hr.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued
Jun 11, 2011, 3:35 PM MDT (21:35 UTC)
Expired
Jun 11, 2011, 9:46 PM MDT
In force
6 hr
Issued by
the Storm Prediction Center
Largest hail expected
2.5 in
Strongest gust expected
60 kt
All 43 counties

Adams County, CO, Arapahoe County, CO, Cheyenne 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, Greeley County, KS, Logan County, KS, Rawlins County, KS, Sherman County, KS, Thomas County, KS, Wallace County, KS, Wichita County, KS, Arthur County, NE, Banner County, NE, Box Butte County, NE, Chase County, NE, Cheyenne County, NE, Dawes County, NE, Deuel County, NE, Dundy County, NE, Garden County, NE, Grant County, NE, Keith County, NE, Kimball County, NE, Morrill County, NE, Perkins County, NE, Scotts Bluff County, NE, Sheridan County, NE, Sioux County, NE, Converse County, WY, Goshen County, WY, Laramie County, WY, Niobrara County, WY, Platte County, WY

The radar

The Cheyenne radar (KCYS), 98 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:35 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
20%
One or more EF2 to EF5 tornadoes
5%
Ten or more severe wind reports
40%
One or more gusts of 65 knots or more
30%
Ten or more severe hail reports
70%
One or more hailstones of 2 inches or more
40%
Six or more combined severe hail and wind reports
95%

Warnings issued inside it

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 11, 3:38 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGLDCheyenne67 min
Jun 11, 3:40 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCYSGoshen35 min
Jun 11, 3:45 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGLDGreeley60 min
Jun 11, 3:50 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBOUWeld17 min
Jun 11, 4:15 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGLDCheyenne, Kit Carson60 min
Jun 11, 4:18 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCYSBanner, Kimball15 min
Jun 11, 4:23 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBOUWashington23 min
Jun 11, 4:30 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBOUArapahoe, Elbert, Lincoln, Washington60 min
Jun 11, 4:33 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGLDCheyenne57 min
Jun 11, 4:50 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCYSKimball20 min
Jun 11, 4:53 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCYSDawes37 min
Jun 11, 4:57 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGLDKit Carson, Yuma63 min
Jun 11, 4:58 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCYSScotts Bluff, Sioux62 min
Jun 11, 5:12 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBOUArapahoe, Elbert, Lincoln, Washington36 min
Jun 11, 5:19 PM MDTTornado WarningBOULincoln22 min
Jun 11, 5:23 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCYSBanner, Kimball, Scotts Bluff37 min
Jun 11, 5:29 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBOULogan31 min
Jun 11, 5:30 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCYSBox Butte, Morrill, Scotts Bluff, Sioux31 min
Jun 11, 5:40 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGLDKit Carson, Yuma65 min
Jun 11, 6:01 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGLDCheyenne, Rawlins59 min
Jun 11, 6:02 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCYSMorrill27 min
Jun 11, 7:04 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCYSCheyenne26 min
Jun 11, 7:13 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLBFGarden35 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, 9.6 hours before the alert went out and 152 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, Denver, CO at 12:00Z on 2011-06-11Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 155 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Denver, CO at 12:00Z on 2011-06-11The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 120 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
155 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-355 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1833 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
22 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
120 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
76 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
-0.0

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SPC that day

Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 11, 11:44 AM MDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCBaca, Bent, Crowley, Kiowa, Las Animas, Otero and 2 more91 min
Jun 11, 12:09 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPCBaca, Bent, Crowley, El Paso, Huerfano, Kiowa and 4 more7 hr
Jun 11, 3:04 PM MDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCAdams, Arapahoe, Elbert, Kit Carson, Logan, Morgan and 4 more86 min
Jun 11, 4:43 PM MDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCBaca, Bent, Crowley, Kiowa, Las Animas, Otero and 2 more62 min
Jun 10, 6:47 PM MDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCAllen, Anderson, Bourbon, Chautauqua, Cherokee, Coffey and 12 more58 min
Jun 10, 9:56 PM MDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCCherokee, Crawford94 min
Jun 11, 2:39 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPCBarber, Clark, Comanche, Finney, Ford, Grant and 11 more9 hr
Jun 11, 1:40 PM MDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCBanner, Box Butte, Dawes, Garden, Grant, Morrill and 3 more2 hr
Jun 11, 3:59 PM MDTTornado WatchSPCCampbell, Crook, Weston7 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.