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Severe Thunderstorm Watch 392

June 14, 20124 states

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.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 14, 4:02 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningAMADeaf Smith, Randall58 min
Jun 14, 4:03 PM MDTTornado WarningPUBProwers12 min
Jun 14, 4:14 PM MDTTornado WarningPUBProwers26 min
Jun 14, 4:33 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningAMADeaf Smith, Oldham, Potter, Randall57 min
Jun 14, 4:56 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningAMADeaf Smith, Oldham, Potter, Randall64 min
Jun 14, 4:59 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCStanton31 min
Jun 14, 5:06 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCGrant24 min
Jun 14, 5:24 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLUBHale51 min
Jun 14, 5:29 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningAMADallam, Hartley, Moore, Sherman61 min
Jun 14, 5:31 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCNess, Trego59 min
Jun 14, 5:33 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCStevens57 min
Jun 14, 5:50 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCFinney, Gray55 min
Jun 14, 5:55 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPUBKiowa, Prowers23 min
Jun 14, 6:00 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLUBCrosby, Floyd, Hale, Lubbock45 min
Jun 14, 6:01 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCTrego44 min
Jun 14, 6:04 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCLane, Ness56 min
Jun 14, 6:06 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCScott13 min
Jun 14, 6:10 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningAMATexas65 min
Jun 14, 6:21 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCFinney, Gray, Haskell, Meade39 min
Jun 14, 6:30 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCNess45 min
Jun 14, 6:31 PM MDTTornado WarningDDCLane17 min
Jun 14, 6:42 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningAMAArmstrong, Carson, Donley, Gray63 min
Jun 14, 6:43 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCFinney, Ford, Gray, Haskell, Hodgeman, Lane and 1 more47 min
Jun 14, 6:45 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCEllis, Trego45 min
Jun 14, 6:45 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLUBCrosby, Floyd, Hale, Lubbock60 min
Jun 14, 6:50 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCEllis, Rush55 min
Jun 14, 7:04 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLUBHall41 min
Jun 14, 7:12 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCNess, Trego33 min
Jun 14, 7:14 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCEllis27 min
Jun 14, 7:14 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningAMABeaver, Cimarron, Texas61 min
Jun 14, 7:17 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCClark, Edwards, Ford, Gray, Hodgeman, Meade and 1 more58 min
Jun 14, 7:18 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLUBBriscoe, Cottle, Crosby, Dickens, Floyd, Hall and 2 more57 min
Jun 14, 7:24 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCClark, Meade66 min
Jun 14, 7:25 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCPawnee, Rush50 min
Jun 14, 7:38 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLUBHockley, Lubbock67 min
Jun 14, 7:45 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLUBChildress, Cottle, Hall60 min
Jun 14, 7:46 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningAMACollingsworth, Donley, Gray, Wheeler59 min
Jun 14, 8:05 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCEdwards, Kiowa, Pawnee, Pratt, Stafford55 min
Jun 14, 8:10 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLUBCottle, Motley65 min
Jun 14, 8:13 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningAMABeaver62 min
Jun 14, 8:32 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLUBCrosby, Dickens, Garza, Kent, King, Stonewall58 min
Jun 14, 8:34 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLUBHockley, Lubbock, Lynn, Terry56 min
Jun 14, 8:41 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningAMABeaver64 min
Jun 14, 9:30 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLUBGarza, Lynn, Terry60 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.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Amarillo Airport, TX at 12:00Z on 2012-06-14Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 2681 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Amarillo Airport, TX at 12:00Z on 2012-06-14The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 174 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 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
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

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SPC that day

Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 14, 2:14 PM MDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCBaca, Prowers61 min
Jun 14, 12:41 PM MDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCDecatur, Gove, Graham, Jewell, Logan, Norton and 8 more64 min
Jun 14, 2:11 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPCCheyenne, Decatur, Gove, Graham, Greeley, Jewell and 13 more7 hr
Jun 14, 5:07 PM MDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCBarton, Brown, Clay, Cloud, Dickinson, Doniphan and 27 more83 min
Jun 13, 7:33 PM MDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCAnderson, Camp, Cherokee, Collin, Dallas, Delta and 22 more87 min
Jun 13, 7:51 PM MDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCAndrews, Brewster, Crane, Culberson, Dawson, Ector and 12 more84 min
Jun 14, 12:36 AM MDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCAnderson, Angelina, Cherokee, Clay, Collin, Cooke and 36 more2 hr
Jun 14, 3:40 PM MDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCAndrews, Brewster, Crane, Crockett, Ector, Glasscock and 11 more95 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.