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Severe Thunderstorm Watch 860
The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at Oct 6, 2011, 8:29 PM CDT for 13 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
- Oct 6, 2011, 8:29 PM CDT (01:29 UTC)
- Expired
- Oct 7, 2011, 1:00 AM CDT
- In force
- 5 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
- Largest hail expected
- 1.5 in
- Strongest gust expected
- 60 kt
Counties Cheyenne County, KS, Decatur County, KS, Gove County, KS, Graham County, KS, Greeley County, KS, Logan County, KS, Norton County, KS, Rawlins County, KS, Sheridan County, KS, Sherman County, KS, Thomas County, KS, Wallace County, KS, Wichita County, KS, Dundy County, NE, Hitchcock County, NE, Red Willow County, NE
The radar
The Goodland radar (KGLD), 82 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:31 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
- 30%
- One or more gusts of 65 knots or more
- 30%
- Ten or more severe hail reports
- 20%
- One or more hailstones of 2 inches or more
- 20%
- Six or more combined severe hail and wind reports
- 60%
Warnings issued inside it
9 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 6, 8:41 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | GLD | Logan, Sherman, Thomas, Wallace | 34 min |
| Oct 6, 8:53 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | GLD | Greeley, Wichita | 21 min |
| Oct 6, 9:01 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Sherman, Wallace | 29 min |
| Oct 6, 9:07 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Rawlins, Sherman, Thomas | 23 min |
| Oct 6, 9:26 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | GLD | Rawlins, Thomas | 34 min |
| Oct 6, 10:10 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Logan, Wallace, Wichita | 35 min |
| Oct 6, 10:39 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Gove, Logan, Sheridan, Thomas | 36 min |
| Oct 6, 11:36 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Sheridan | 24 min |
| Oct 6, 11:57 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Decatur, Norton, Sheridan | 40 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
N. Platte/Lee Bi, NE (KLBF), launched 00:00Z, 1.5 hours before the alert went out and 136 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
- 1031 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -34 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1829 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 50 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 324 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 459 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.4
- Supercell composite
- 13.0
SPC that day
Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 6, 11:08 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Decatur, Gove, Graham, Lane, Logan, Norton and 4 more | 97 min |
| Oct 7, 12:42 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Ellis, Gove, Graham, Hodgeman, Lane, Ness and 9 more | 93 min |
| Oct 7, 2:24 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Ellis, Gove, Graham, Lane, Ness, Norton and 4 more | 96 min |
| Oct 7, 6:00 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Finney, Gove, Grant, Gray, Greeley, Hamilton and 19 more | 2 hr |
| Oct 7, 6:33 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Cheyenne, Decatur, Finney, Gove, Graham, Grant and 19 more | 7 hr |
| Oct 6, 8:45 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Arthur, Cherry, Garden, Grant, Hooker, Logan and 2 more | 90 min |
| Oct 7, 6:45 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Adams, Antelope, Boone, Buffalo, Colfax, Custer and 24 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.