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Severe Thunderstorm Watch 392
The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at Jun 14, 2012, 2:46 PM MDT for 4 states. It was in force for 9 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 14, 2012, 2:46 PM MDT (20:46 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 15, 2012, 12:00 AM MDT
- In force
- 9 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
- Largest hail expected
- 2.5 in
- Strongest gust expected
- 60 kt
All 76 counties
Baca County, CO, Prowers County, CO, Barber County, KS, Clark County, KS, Comanche County, KS, Edwards County, KS, Ellis County, KS, Finney County, KS, Ford County, KS, Grant County, KS, Gray County, KS, Hamilton County, KS, Haskell County, KS, Hodgeman County, KS, Kearny County, KS, Kiowa County, KS, Lane County, KS, Meade County, KS, Morton County, KS, Ness County, KS, Pawnee County, KS, Pratt County, KS, Rush County, KS, Scott County, KS, Seward County, KS, Stafford County, KS, Stanton County, KS, Stevens County, KS, Trego County, KS, Beaver County, OK, Cimarron County, OK, Texas County, OK, Armstrong County, TX, Bailey County, TX, Briscoe County, TX, Carson County, TX, Castro County, TX, Childress County, TX, Cochran County, TX, Collingsworth County, TX, Cottle County, TX, Crosby County, TX, Dallam County, TX, Deaf Smith County, TX, Dickens County, TX, Donley County, TX, Floyd County, TX, Garza County, TX, Gray County, TX, Hale County, TX, Hall County, TX, Hansford County, TX, Hartley County, TX, Hemphill County, TX, Hockley County, TX, Hutchinson County, TX, Kent County, TX, King County, TX, Lamb County, TX, Lipscomb County, TX, Lubbock County, TX, Lynn County, TX, Moore County, TX, Motley County, TX, Ochiltree County, TX, Oldham County, TX, Parmer County, TX, Potter County, TX, Randall County, TX, Roberts County, TX, Sherman County, TX, Stonewall County, TX, Swisher County, TX, Terry County, TX, Wheeler County, TX, Yoakum County, TX
The radar
The Amarillo radar (KAMA), 126 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:48 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
- 50%
- One or more gusts of 65 knots or more
- 50%
- Ten or more severe hail reports
- 60%
- One or more hailstones of 2 inches or more
- 70%
- Six or more combined severe hail and wind reports
- 90%
Warnings issued inside it
44 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 14, 4:02 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AMA | Deaf Smith, Randall | 58 min |
| Jun 14, 4:03 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | PUB | Prowers | 12 min |
| Jun 14, 4:14 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | PUB | Prowers | 26 min |
| Jun 14, 4:33 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AMA | Deaf Smith, Oldham, Potter, Randall | 57 min |
| Jun 14, 4:56 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AMA | Deaf Smith, Oldham, Potter, Randall | 64 min |
| Jun 14, 4:59 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Stanton | 31 min |
| Jun 14, 5:06 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Grant | 24 min |
| Jun 14, 5:24 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Hale | 51 min |
| Jun 14, 5:29 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AMA | Dallam, Hartley, Moore, Sherman | 61 min |
| Jun 14, 5:31 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Ness, Trego | 59 min |
| Jun 14, 5:33 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Stevens | 57 min |
| Jun 14, 5:50 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Finney, Gray | 55 min |
| Jun 14, 5:55 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | Kiowa, Prowers | 23 min |
| Jun 14, 6:00 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Crosby, Floyd, Hale, Lubbock | 45 min |
| Jun 14, 6:01 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Trego | 44 min |
| Jun 14, 6:04 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Lane, Ness | 56 min |
| Jun 14, 6:06 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Scott | 13 min |
| Jun 14, 6:10 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AMA | Texas | 65 min |
| Jun 14, 6:21 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Finney, Gray, Haskell, Meade | 39 min |
| Jun 14, 6:30 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Ness | 45 min |
| Jun 14, 6:31 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | DDC | Lane | 17 min |
| Jun 14, 6:42 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AMA | Armstrong, Carson, Donley, Gray | 63 min |
| Jun 14, 6:43 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Finney, Ford, Gray, Haskell, Hodgeman, Lane and 1 more | 47 min |
| Jun 14, 6:45 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Ellis, Trego | 45 min |
| Jun 14, 6:45 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Crosby, Floyd, Hale, Lubbock | 60 min |
| Jun 14, 6:50 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Ellis, Rush | 55 min |
| Jun 14, 7:04 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Hall | 41 min |
| Jun 14, 7:12 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Ness, Trego | 33 min |
| Jun 14, 7:14 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Ellis | 27 min |
| Jun 14, 7:14 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AMA | Beaver, Cimarron, Texas | 61 min |
| Jun 14, 7:17 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Clark, Edwards, Ford, Gray, Hodgeman, Meade and 1 more | 58 min |
| Jun 14, 7:18 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Briscoe, Cottle, Crosby, Dickens, Floyd, Hall and 2 more | 57 min |
| Jun 14, 7:24 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Clark, Meade | 66 min |
| Jun 14, 7:25 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Pawnee, Rush | 50 min |
| Jun 14, 7:38 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Hockley, Lubbock | 67 min |
| Jun 14, 7:45 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Childress, Cottle, Hall | 60 min |
| Jun 14, 7:46 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AMA | Collingsworth, Donley, Gray, Wheeler | 59 min |
| Jun 14, 8:05 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Edwards, Kiowa, Pawnee, Pratt, Stafford | 55 min |
| Jun 14, 8:10 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Cottle, Motley | 65 min |
| Jun 14, 8:13 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AMA | Beaver | 62 min |
| Jun 14, 8:32 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Crosby, Dickens, Garza, Kent, King, Stonewall | 58 min |
| Jun 14, 8:34 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Hockley, Lubbock, Lynn, Terry | 56 min |
| Jun 14, 8:41 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AMA | Beaver | 64 min |
| Jun 14, 9:30 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Garza, Lynn, Terry | 60 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
Amarillo Airport, TX (KAMA), launched 12:00Z, 8.8 hours before the alert went out and 126 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
- 2681 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -214 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1059 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 22 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 174 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 377 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.2
SPC that day
Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 14, 2:14 PM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Baca, Prowers | 61 min |
| Jun 14, 12:41 PM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Decatur, Gove, Graham, Jewell, Logan, Norton and 8 more | 64 min |
| Jun 14, 2:11 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Cheyenne, Decatur, Gove, Graham, Greeley, Jewell and 13 more | 7 hr |
| Jun 14, 5:07 PM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Barton, Brown, Clay, Cloud, Dickinson, Doniphan and 27 more | 83 min |
| Jun 13, 7:33 PM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Anderson, Camp, Cherokee, Collin, Dallas, Delta and 22 more | 87 min |
| Jun 13, 7:51 PM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Andrews, Brewster, Crane, Culberson, Dawson, Ector and 12 more | 84 min |
| Jun 14, 12:36 AM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Anderson, Angelina, Cherokee, Clay, Collin, Cooke and 36 more | 2 hr |
| Jun 14, 3:40 PM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Andrews, Brewster, Crane, Crockett, Ector, Glasscock and 11 more | 95 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.