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Severe Thunderstorm Watch 371
The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at Jun 10, 2012, 8:03 PM CDT for 15 counties in Kansas. It was in force for 2 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 10, 2012, 8:03 PM CDT (01:03 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 10, 2012, 10:20 PM CDT
- In force
- 2 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
- Largest hail expected
- 2 in
- Strongest gust expected
- 60 kt
Counties Butler County, KS, Chase County, KS, Chautauqua County, KS, Cowley County, KS, Elk County, KS, Greenwood County, KS, Harper County, KS, Harvey County, KS, Kingman County, KS, Marion County, KS, McPherson County, KS, Reno County, KS, Saline County, KS, Sedgwick County, KS, Sumner County, KS
The radar
The Wichita radar (KICT), 34 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:04 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
- 10%
- One or more EF2 to EF5 tornadoes
- 5%
- Ten or more severe wind reports
- 30%
- One or more gusts of 65 knots or more
- 20%
- Ten or more severe hail reports
- 30%
- One or more hailstones of 2 inches or more
- 20%
- Six or more combined severe hail and wind reports
- 70%
Warnings issued inside it
3 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 10, 8:05 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Harvey, McPherson, Marion | 27 min |
| Jun 10, 8:18 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Harvey, Reno, Sedgwick | 57 min |
| Jun 10, 9:13 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Harvey, Reno, Sedgwick | 47 min |
The nearest sounding before it
Lamont, OK (KLMN), launched 00:00Z, 1.1 hours before the alert went out and 145 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
- 2705 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -131 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1555 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 33 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 105 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 241 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.6
- Supercell composite
- 17.1
SPC that day
Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 10, 10:22 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Atchison, Brown, Butler, Chase, Clay, Cowley and 27 more | 53 min |
| Jun 11, 9:31 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Cherokee | 59 min |
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.