Alert archive / Kansas / Severe Thunderstorm Watches in 2014
Severe Thunderstorm Watch 202
The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at Jun 1, 2014, 3:07 PM CDT for 54 counties in Kansas. It was in force for 7 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 1, 2014, 3:07 PM CDT (20:07 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 1, 2014, 10:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 7 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
- Largest hail expected
- 3 in
- Strongest gust expected
- 60 kt
All 54 counties
Barber County, KS, Barton County, KS, Cheyenne County, KS, Clark County, KS, Comanche County, KS, Decatur County, KS, Edwards County, KS, Ellis County, KS, Ellsworth County, KS, Finney County, KS, Ford County, KS, Gove County, KS, Graham County, KS, Grant County, KS, Gray County, KS, Greeley County, KS, Hamilton County, KS, Harper County, KS, Harvey County, KS, Haskell County, KS, Hodgeman County, KS, Kearny County, KS, Kingman County, KS, Kiowa County, KS, Lane County, KS, Lincoln County, KS, Logan County, KS, Marion County, KS, McPherson County, KS, Meade County, KS, Morton County, KS, Ness County, KS, Norton County, KS, Pawnee County, KS, Pratt County, KS, Rawlins County, KS, Reno County, KS, Rice County, KS, Rush County, KS, Russell County, KS, Saline County, KS, Scott County, KS, Sedgwick County, KS, Seward County, KS, Sheridan County, KS, Sherman County, KS, Stafford County, KS, Stanton County, KS, Stevens County, KS, Sumner County, KS, Thomas County, KS, Trego County, KS, Wallace County, KS, Wichita County, KS
The radar
The Dodge City radar (KDDC), 58 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:08 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
- 10%
- 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
- 80%
Warnings issued inside it
37 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 1, 3:10 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Logan | 50 min |
| Jun 1, 3:33 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Hamilton, Kearny | 42 min |
| Jun 1, 3:42 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | GLD | Norton | 3 hr |
| Jun 1, 3:47 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Greeley | 28 min |
| Jun 1, 3:57 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Logan | 63 min |
| Jun 1, 3:59 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Norton | 61 min |
| Jun 1, 4:08 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Greeley, Wichita | 52 min |
| Jun 1, 4:09 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Finney, Kearny | 66 min |
| Jun 1, 4:14 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Grant, Hamilton, Kearny, Stanton | 61 min |
| Jun 1, 4:24 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Gove | 66 min |
| Jun 1, 4:25 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Lane, Scott | 65 min |
| Jun 1, 4:34 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DDC | Grant, Hamilton, Kearny, Stanton | 26 min |
| Jun 1, 4:35 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Wichita | 55 min |
| Jun 1, 4:44 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Gove | 46 min |
| Jun 1, 4:56 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Sherman, Thomas | 64 min |
| Jun 1, 5:24 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Ellis, Trego | 66 min |
| Jun 1, 5:45 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Russell | 60 min |
| Jun 1, 5:48 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Grant, Stanton | 57 min |
| Jun 1, 5:49 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Gove, Sheridan | 56 min |
| Jun 1, 6:09 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Ford, Gray, Hodgeman | 66 min |
| Jun 1, 6:11 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Graham, Sheridan | 64 min |
| Jun 1, 6:23 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Grant, Haskell, Seward, Stevens | 67 min |
| Jun 1, 6:38 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Ford, Hodgeman | 52 min |
| Jun 1, 6:38 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Barton, Ellsworth, Lincoln, Russell | 67 min |
| Jun 1, 6:44 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Pawnee, Rush, Stafford | 46 min |
| Jun 1, 7:02 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Barton | 58 min |
| Jun 1, 7:06 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Clark, Ford, Gray, Kiowa, Meade | 39 min |
| Jun 1, 7:16 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Saline | 59 min |
| Jun 1, 7:32 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Clark, Comanche, Ford, Kiowa, Meade | 58 min |
| Jun 1, 7:43 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Barton, Ellsworth, Rice | 62 min |
| Jun 1, 7:59 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Barber, Comanche, Kiowa, Pratt | 46 min |
| Jun 1, 8:02 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Reno | 43 min |
| Jun 1, 8:23 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Clark, Comanche | 52 min |
| Jun 1, 8:33 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Harvey, McPherson, Reno | 57 min |
| Jun 1, 8:48 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Clark, Comanche, Meade | 42 min |
| Jun 1, 9:25 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Barber, Clark, Comanche | 65 min |
| Jun 1, 9:46 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Clark, Comanche, Kiowa | 44 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
Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 12:00Z, 8.1 hours before the alert went out and 55 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
- 438 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -418 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1270 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 36 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 39 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 9 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
SPC that day
Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 1, 1:39 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Grant, Hamilton, Haskell, Kearny, Meade, Seward | 96 min |
| Jun 1, 1:08 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Graham, Jewell, Mitchell, Norton, Osborne, Phillips and 3 more | 2 hr |
| Jun 1, 1:28 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Brown, Clay, Cloud, Dickinson, Geary, Jackson and 17 more | 10 hr |
| Jun 1, 1:51 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Barton, Cheyenne, Clark, Decatur, Edwards, Ellis and 29 more | 114 min |
| Jun 1, 3:42 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Clay, Cloud, Graham, Jewell, Lincoln, Marshall and 9 more | 63 min |
| Jun 1, 6:44 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Barber, Barton, Clark, Clay, Cloud, Comanche and 35 more | 91 min |
| Jun 1, 6:50 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Anderson, Atchison, Brown, Chase, Coffey, Doniphan and 20 more | 85 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.