Alert archive / Kansas / Severe Thunderstorm Watches in 2011
Severe Thunderstorm Watch 488
The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at Jun 16, 2011, 5:34 PM MDT for Cheyenne County, Kit Carson County, Yuma County, Colorado; 37 counties in Kansas; 27 counties in Nebraska. It was in force for 7 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 16, 2011, 5:34 PM MDT (23:34 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 17, 2011, 1:00 AM MDT
- In force
- 7 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
- Largest hail expected
- 2 in
- Strongest gust expected
- 70 kt
All 67 counties
Cheyenne County, CO, Kit Carson County, CO, Yuma County, CO, Barton County, KS, Butler County, KS, Chase County, KS, Cheyenne County, KS, Cloud County, KS, Cowley County, KS, Decatur County, KS, Ellsworth County, KS, Gove County, KS, Graham County, KS, Harper County, KS, Harvey County, KS, Jewell County, KS, Kingman County, KS, Lincoln County, KS, Logan County, KS, Marion County, KS, McPherson County, KS, Mitchell County, KS, Norton County, KS, Osborne County, KS, Ottawa County, KS, Phillips County, KS, Rawlins County, KS, Reno County, KS, Republic County, KS, Rice County, KS, Rooks County, KS, Russell County, KS, Saline County, KS, Sedgwick County, KS, Sheridan County, KS, Sherman County, KS, Smith County, KS, Sumner County, KS, Thomas County, KS, Wallace County, KS, Adams County, NE, Buffalo County, NE, Clay County, NE, Dawson County, NE, Dundy County, NE, Fillmore County, NE, Franklin County, NE, Furnas County, NE, Gosper County, NE, Greeley County, NE, Hall County, NE, Hamilton County, NE, Harlan County, NE, Hitchcock County, NE, Howard County, NE, Kearney County, NE, Merrick County, NE, Nance County, NE, Nuckolls County, NE, Phelps County, NE, Polk County, NE, Red Willow County, NE, Sherman County, NE, Thayer County, NE, Valley County, NE, Webster County, NE, York County, NE
The radar
The Dodge City radar (KDDC), 156 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:38 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
- 2%
- Ten or more severe wind reports
- 60%
- One or more gusts of 65 knots or more
- 30%
- Ten or more severe hail reports
- 80%
- One or more hailstones of 2 inches or more
- 30%
- Six or more combined severe hail and wind reports
- 90%
Warnings issued inside it
30 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 16, 5:37 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Kit Carson, Yuma | 53 min |
| Jun 16, 5:59 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Barton, Russell | 61 min |
| Jun 16, 6:11 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Yuma | 64 min |
| Jun 16, 6:19 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Kit Carson, Yuma | 56 min |
| Jun 16, 6:20 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Kingman, Reno | 55 min |
| Jun 16, 6:41 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Ellsworth, Lincoln | 64 min |
| Jun 16, 6:54 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Kingman, Reno | 51 min |
| Jun 16, 6:58 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Yuma | 62 min |
| Jun 16, 6:58 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Barton, Russell | 47 min |
| Jun 16, 7:09 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Kingman, Reno | 66 min |
| Jun 16, 7:16 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Kit Carson | 29 min |
| Jun 16, 7:40 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Ellsworth, Lincoln | 50 min |
| Jun 16, 7:51 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Yuma | 54 min |
| Jun 16, 8:00 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Harper, Kingman | 60 min |
| Jun 16, 8:12 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Harvey, Kingman, Reno, Sedgwick | 63 min |
| Jun 16, 8:19 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Jewell, Mitchell, Osborne, Smith | 56 min |
| Jun 16, 8:24 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Ellsworth, Lincoln | 66 min |
| Jun 16, 8:38 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Harper, Sedgwick, Sumner | 67 min |
| Jun 16, 8:41 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Decatur, Rawlins | 64 min |
| Jun 16, 8:44 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | McPherson, Rice, Saline | 61 min |
| Jun 16, 8:50 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Harper, Kingman | 55 min |
| Jun 16, 8:59 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Harvey | 46 min |
| Jun 16, 9:10 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Kingman, Reno, Sedgwick | 65 min |
| Jun 16, 9:16 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Dawson, Furnas, Gosper | 59 min |
| Jun 16, 9:19 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Decatur, Norton | 40 min |
| Jun 16, 9:41 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Harper, Kingman, Reno, Sedgwick, Sumner | 54 min |
| Jun 16, 9:50 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | McPherson, Saline | 55 min |
| Jun 16, 9:56 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Sumner | 49 min |
| Jun 16, 9:58 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Buffalo, Dawson, Gosper, Kearney, Phelps, Sherman | 47 min |
| Jun 16, 10:08 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Butler, Cowley | 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, 11.6 hours before the alert went out and 155 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
- 2230 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -375 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1600 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 35 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 283 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 516 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 2.2
SPC that day
Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 16, 12:37 PM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Jackson, Moffat, Rio Blanco, Routt | 113 min |
| Jun 16, 1:34 PM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Weld | 56 min |
| Jun 16, 1:55 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Elbert, Larimer, Lincoln, Logan, Morgan, Phillips and 3 more | 9 hr |
| Jun 16, 4:49 PM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Logan, Morgan, Phillips, Sedgwick, Washington, Weld | 86 min |
| Jun 16, 5:18 PM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Kit Carson, Yuma | 87 min |
| Jun 16, 10:52 AM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Chautauqua, Cowley, Montgomery | 53 min |
| Jun 16, 11:26 AM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Chautauqua, Cherokee, Cowley, Elk, Labette, Montgomery and 2 more | 7 hr |
| Jun 16, 2:37 PM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Clark, Grant, Gray, Haskell, Meade, Seward | 83 min |
| Jun 16, 2:53 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Barber, Clark, Comanche, Edwards, Ellis, Ford and 10 more | 6 hr |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Watches in Kansas, 2011Severe Thunderstorm Watches in Nebraska, 2011Severe Thunderstorm Watches in Colorado, 2011Every severe thunderstorm watch in 2011
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.