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Severe Thunderstorm Watch 228

June 5, 20144 states

The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at Jun 5, 2014, 6:26 AM CDT for 4 states. It was in force for 6 hr.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued: Jun 5, 2014, 6:26 AM CDT (11:26 UTC)
Expired: Jun 5, 2014, 12:49 PM CDT
In force: 6 hr
Issued by: the Storm Prediction Center
Largest hail expected: 2 in
Strongest gust expected: 60 kt

All 48 counties

Benton County, AR, Carroll County, AR, Crawford County, AR, Franklin County, AR, Madison County, AR, Sebastian County, AR, Washington County, AR, Cherokee County, KS, Barry County, MO, Barton County, MO, Bates County, MO, Benton County, MO, Cedar County, MO, Christian County, MO, Dade County, MO, Dallas County, MO, Greene County, MO, Hickory County, MO, Jasper County, MO, Lawrence County, MO, McDonald County, MO, Newton County, MO, Polk County, MO, St. Clair County, MO, Stone County, MO, Taney County, MO, Vernon County, MO, Webster County, MO, Adair County, OK, Cherokee County, OK, Craig County, OK, Creek County, OK, Delaware County, OK, Kay County, OK, Mayes County, OK, Muskogee County, OK, Noble County, OK, Nowata 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

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: 80%
One or more gusts of 65 knots or more: 20%
Ten or more severe hail reports: 50%
One or more hailstones of 2 inches or more: 30%
Six or more combined severe hail and wind reports: 90%

Warnings issued inside it

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 5, 6:40 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Grant, Kay	50 min
Jun 5, 7:12 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Garfield, Grant, Kay, Noble	29 min
Jun 5, 7:20 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Osage, Pawnee	40 min
Jun 5, 7:48 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Craig, Nowata, Osage, Rogers, Washington	57 min
Jun 5, 7:51 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	SGF	Jasper, Lawrence	6 hr
Jun 5, 7:56 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Barton, Vernon	49 min
Jun 5, 7:57 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Creek, Osage, Pawnee	48 min
Jun 5, 8:12 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Cherokee, Crawford	63 min
Jun 5, 8:27 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Barton, Jasper, Newton	63 min
Jun 5, 8:29 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Ottawa	46 min
Jun 5, 8:41 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	McDonald, Newton	64 min
Jun 5, 8:45 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Barton, Dade	60 min
Jun 5, 9:00 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Lawrence	60 min
Jun 5, 9:15 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Barry	50 min
Jun 5, 9:28 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Greene	62 min
Jun 5, 9:29 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	SGF	Barton, Vernon	6 hr
Jun 5, 9:30 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Christian, Stone, Taney	60 min
Jun 5, 9:50 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Carroll, Madison	25 min
Jun 5, 10:09 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Douglas, Ozark, Webster, Wright	66 min
Jun 5, 10:22 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	SGF	Dade, Jasper, Lawrence	4 hr
Jun 5, 10:29 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Taney	23 min
Jun 5, 10:58 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Bates, Buchanan, Cass, Clay, Clinton, Henry and 5 more	47 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

Springfield, MO (KSGF), launched 00:00Z, 11.4 hours before the alert went out and 172 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 2784 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -33 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1194 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 44 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 41 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 156 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 1.1
Supercell composite: 10.3

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

SPC that day

Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 4, 7:24 PM CDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	Clay, Greene, Randolph	8 hr
Jun 5, 2:42 AM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Baxter, Boone, Carroll, Marion	93 min
Jun 5, 7:40 AM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Baxter, Benton, Boone, Carroll, Crawford, Franklin and 8 more	2 hr
Jun 5, 9:27 AM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Baxter, Clay, Cleburne, Craighead, Crittenden, Cross and 16 more	63 min
Jun 5, 10:06 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	Baxter, Boone, Clay, Cleburne, Craighead, Crittenden and 20 more	7 hr
Jun 5, 1:22 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Baxter, Clay, Cleburne, Craighead, Crittenden, Cross and 16 more	53 min
Jun 4, 9:07 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Allen, Bourbon, Cherokee, Crawford, Labette, Montgomery and 3 more	113 min
Jun 4, 9:09 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Cheyenne, Decatur, Rawlins, Sheridan, Sherman, Thomas	96 min
Jun 4, 9:23 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	Allen, Bourbon, Chautauqua, Cherokee, Crawford, Elk and 6 more	7 hr
Jun 4, 11:50 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Greeley, Hamilton, Kearny, Logan, Scott, Sherman and 2 more	85 min
Jun 5, 12:06 AM CDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	Greeley, Logan, Sherman, Wallace, Wichita	4 hr
Jun 5, 1:35 AM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Barton, Edwards, Ellis, Ellsworth, Finney, Gove and 20 more	85 min
Jun 5, 1:57 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	Barton, Edwards, Ellis, Ellsworth, Finney, Ford and 29 more	6 hr
Jun 5, 3:50 AM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Barton, Edwards, Ellis, Ellsworth, Finney, Gove and 24 more	115 min
Jun 5, 4:35 AM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Allen, Anderson, Bourbon, Butler, Chase, Clay and 20 more	85 min
Jun 5, 4:46 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	Allen, Anderson, Bourbon, Butler, Chase, Chautauqua and 29 more	5 hr
Jun 5, 6:04 AM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Allen, Anderson, Bourbon, Butler, Chase, Chautauqua and 40 more	86 min
Jun 5, 8:07 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	Johnson, Leavenworth, Linn, Miami, Wyandotte	5 hr
Jun 5, 10:42 AM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Johnson, Wyandotte	63 min
Jun 5, 3:25 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Cimarron	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.