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Severe Thunderstorm Watch 438

July 23, 201337 counties in Kansas; 35 counties in Oklahoma

The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at Jul 23, 2013, 5:15 PM CDT for 37 counties in Kansas; 35 counties in Oklahoma. It was in force for 8 hr.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued
Jul 23, 2013, 5:15 PM CDT (22:15 UTC)
Expired
Jul 24, 2013, 1:00 AM CDT
In force
8 hr
Issued by
the Storm Prediction Center
Largest hail expected
3 in
Strongest gust expected
65 kt
All 72 counties

Allen County, KS, Barber County, KS, Barton County, KS, Butler County, KS, Chase County, KS, Chautauqua County, KS, Clark County, KS, Comanche County, KS, Cowley County, KS, Edwards County, KS, Elk County, KS, Ellsworth County, KS, Ford County, KS, Greenwood County, KS, Harper County, KS, Harvey County, KS, Hodgeman County, KS, Kingman County, KS, Kiowa County, KS, Labette County, KS, Lincoln County, KS, Marion County, KS, McPherson County, KS, Montgomery County, KS, Neosho County, KS, Pawnee County, KS, Pratt County, KS, Reno County, KS, Rice County, KS, Rush County, KS, Russell County, KS, Saline County, KS, Sedgwick County, KS, Stafford County, KS, Sumner County, KS, Wilson County, KS, Woodson County, KS, Adair County, OK, Alfalfa County, OK, Blaine County, OK, Cherokee County, OK, Craig County, OK, Creek County, OK, Delaware County, OK, Ellis County, OK, Garfield County, OK, Grant County, OK, Harper County, OK, Haskell County, OK, Kay County, OK, Kingfisher County, OK, Lincoln County, OK, Logan County, OK, Major County, OK, Mayes County, OK, McIntosh County, OK, Muskogee County, OK, Noble County, OK, Nowata County, OK, Okfuskee County, OK, Okmulgee County, OK, Osage County, OK, Ottawa County, OK, Pawnee County, OK, Payne County, OK, Rogers County, OK, Sequoyah County, OK, Tulsa County, OK, Wagoner County, OK, Washington County, OK, Woods County, OK, Woodward County, OK

The radar

The Wichita radar (KICT), 22 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:15 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
40%
Ten or more severe hail reports
60%
One or more hailstones of 2 inches or more
40%
Six or more combined severe hail and wind reports
90%

Warnings issued inside it

56 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jul 23, 5:17 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTSACraig58 min
Jul 23, 5:39 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningICTEllsworth, Lincoln51 min
Jul 23, 5:51 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCEdwards, Ford, Hodgeman54 min
Jul 23, 6:09 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCFord66 min
Jul 23, 6:11 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningICTEllsworth, McPherson, Rice, Saline49 min
Jul 23, 6:28 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningICTLincoln32 min
Jul 23, 6:41 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningICTMcPherson, Rice34 min
Jul 23, 6:45 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCEdwards, Ford, Kiowa60 min
Jul 23, 6:55 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningICTEllsworth35 min
Jul 23, 6:58 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningICTLincoln32 min
Jul 23, 7:10 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningICTMcPherson, Reno, Rice50 min
Jul 23, 7:20 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningICTEllsworth, McPherson, Rice, Saline40 min
Jul 23, 7:27 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCClark, Comanche, Ford, Kiowa63 min
Jul 23, 7:53 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningICTKingman, Reno, Sedgwick52 min
Jul 23, 7:57 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningICTEllsworth, McPherson, Rice48 min
Jul 23, 8:11 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningICTReno34 min
Jul 23, 8:18 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOUNHarper, Woods, Woodward57 min
Jul 23, 8:22 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningICTReno23 min
Jul 23, 8:26 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCClark, Comanche49 min
Jul 23, 8:35 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningICTSedgwick25 min
Jul 23, 8:38 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningICTKingman, Reno52 min
Jul 23, 8:54 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningICTSedgwick, Sumner51 min
Jul 23, 8:58 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningICTButler, Sedgwick47 min
Jul 23, 9:05 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningICTHarper, Sumner55 min
Jul 23, 9:08 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTSAAdair, Cherokee37 min
Jul 23, 9:11 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTSAMayes, Rogers34 min
Jul 23, 9:12 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOUNHarper, Woods48 min
Jul 23, 9:16 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningICTButler, Cowley, Sumner59 min
Jul 23, 9:33 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOUNAlfalfa, Grant, Kay42 min
Jul 23, 9:42 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTSACraig, Mayes, Rogers48 min
Jul 23, 9:56 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOUNAlfalfa, Major, Woods49 min
Jul 23, 9:58 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningICTSumner47 min
Jul 23, 10:09 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningICTChautauqua, Cowley, Elk51 min
Jul 23, 10:10 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOUNGarfield, Grant, Kay, Noble35 min
Jul 23, 10:13 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningICTCowley, Sumner47 min
Jul 23, 10:13 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTSACraig, Nowata, Osage, Ottawa, Washington62 min
Jul 23, 10:19 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningICTLabette, Montgomery41 min
Jul 23, 10:27 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningICTMontgomery33 min
Jul 23, 10:39 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOUNKay, Noble36 min
Jul 23, 10:47 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTSACherokee, Craig, Creek, Delaware, Mayes, Nowata and 5 more58 min
Jul 23, 10:49 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTSACreek, Okmulgee, Osage, Pawnee, Tulsa56 min
Jul 23, 10:56 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningICTChautauqua, Labette, Montgomery49 min
Jul 23, 11:17 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTSACreek, Osage, Pawnee, Tulsa, Wagoner43 min
Jul 23, 11:27 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningICTCowley, Sumner33 min
Jul 23, 11:41 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTSACherokee, Mayes, Muskogee, Okmulgee, Osage, Rogers and 2 more34 min
Jul 23, 11:45 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTSACreek, Muskogee, Okmulgee, Pawnee, Tulsa30 min
Jul 23, 11:47 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTSAAdair, Cherokee, Craig, Delaware, Mayes, Rogers and 1 more58 min
Jul 24, 12:08 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTSAAdair, Cherokee, Creek, McIntosh, Mayes, Muskogee and 4 more52 min
Jul 24, 12:15 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningTSACraig, Delaware, Ottawa105 min
Jul 24, 12:19 AM CDTTornado WarningTSAAdair, Cherokee, Mayes, Muskogee, Sequoyah, Wagoner26 min
Jul 24, 12:20 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOUNKay25 min
Jul 24, 12:27 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningTSACreek, Osage, Pawnee, Tulsa, Wagoner6 hr
Jul 24, 12:38 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTSAAdair, Cherokee, Haskell, Latimer, LeFlore, McIntosh and 6 more67 min
Jul 24, 12:46 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTSACreek, Osage, Pawnee44 min
Jul 24, 12:46 AM CDTTornado WarningTSAAdair, Cherokee, Muskogee, Sequoyah44 min
Jul 24, 12:49 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningTSAAdair, Cherokee, Delaware, Haskell, LeFlore, Mayes and 3 more6 hr

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, 10.3 hours before the alert went out and 202 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, Dodge City, at 12:00Z on 2013-07-23Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 890 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, Dodge City, at 12:00Z on 2013-07-23The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -40 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
890 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-304 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1843 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
25 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-40 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
83 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
-0.4

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SPC that day

Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jul 22, 8:48 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCBarber, Clark, Comanche, Edwards, Ford, Gray and 9 more57 min
Jul 23, 7:46 AM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCAnderson, Atchison, Brown, Butler, Chase, Clay and 36 more89 min
Jul 23, 2:56 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCAllen, Barber, Barton, Bourbon, Butler, Chase and 26 more2 hr
Jul 23, 3:02 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPCBourbon, Cherokee, Crawford7 hr
Jul 23, 12:33 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCAdair, Cherokee, Craig, Delaware, Haskell, LeFlore and 5 more87 min
Jul 23, 4:56 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCBryan, Choctaw, McCurtain, Pushmataha2 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.