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Severe Thunderstorm Watch 245

June 6, 2014Cheyenne County, Kit Carson County, Yuma County, Colorado; 8 counties in Kansas; Dundy County, Hitchcock County, Red Willow County, Nebraska

The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at Jun 6, 2014, 4:33 PM MDT for Cheyenne County, Kit Carson County, Yuma County, Colorado; 8 counties in Kansas; Dundy County, Hitchcock County, Red Willow County, Nebraska. It was in force for 7 hr.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued
Jun 6, 2014, 4:33 PM MDT (22:33 UTC)
Expired
Jun 7, 2014, 12:00 AM MDT
In force
7 hr
Issued by
the Storm Prediction Center
Largest hail expected
1.5 in
Strongest gust expected
60 kt

Counties Cheyenne County, CO, Kit Carson County, CO, Yuma County, CO, Cheyenne County, KS, Decatur County, KS, Graham County, KS, Norton County, KS, Rawlins County, KS, Sheridan County, KS, Sherman County, KS, Thomas County, KS, Dundy County, NE, Hitchcock County, NE, Red Willow County, NE

The radar

The Goodland radar (KGLD), 55 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:35 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
10%
One or more EF2 to EF5 tornadoes
2%
Ten or more severe wind reports
30%
One or more gusts of 65 knots or more
10%
Ten or more severe hail reports
40%
One or more hailstones of 2 inches or more
10%
Six or more combined severe hail and wind reports
60%

Warnings issued inside it

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 6, 4:43 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGLDYuma62 min
Jun 6, 5:16 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGLDYuma59 min
Jun 6, 5:19 PM MDTTornado WarningGLDCheyenne, Kit Carson26 min
Jun 6, 5:47 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGLDCheyenne, Kit Carson28 min
Jun 6, 5:50 PM MDTTornado WarningGLDCheyenne25 min
Jun 6, 6:02 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGLDCheyenne, Decatur, Rawlins58 min
Jun 6, 6:12 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGLDCheyenne, Kit Carson63 min
Jun 6, 6:53 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGLDDecatur, Norton, Rawlins67 min
Jun 6, 7:00 PM MDTFlash Flood WarningGLDDecatur3 hr
Jun 6, 7:03 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGLDDecatur, Gove, Graham, Logan, Norton, Sheridan and 3 more57 min
Jun 6, 7:54 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGLDDecatur, Gove, Graham, Norton, Sheridan66 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

Denver, CO (KDEN), launched 12:00Z, 10.6 hours before the alert went out and 140 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, Denver, CO at 12:00Z on 2014-06-06Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 367 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Denver, CO at 12:00Z on 2014-06-06The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 238 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
367 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-256 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1813 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
44 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
238 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
212 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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SPC that day

Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 5, 6:37 PM MDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCAdams, Arapahoe, Baca, Bent, Broomfield, Cheyenne and 17 more113 min
Jun 5, 10:49 PM MDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCBaca, Bent, Crowley, Las Animas, Otero116 min
Jun 6, 11:56 AM MDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCAdams, Arapahoe, Bent, Cheyenne, Crowley, Denver and 14 more2 hr
Jun 6, 12:38 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPCAdams, Arapahoe, Baca, Bent, Cheyenne, Crowley and 20 more7 hr
Jun 6, 2:32 PM MDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCAdams, Arapahoe, Baca, Bent, Cheyenne, Crowley and 17 more58 min
Jun 6, 5:13 PM MDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCBent, Cheyenne, Crowley, Kiowa, Kit Carson, Lincoln and 4 more2 hr
Jun 5, 8:36 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPCCherokee7 hr
Jun 6, 12:29 PM MDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCBarber, Clark, Comanche, Edwards, Finney, Ford and 14 more3 hr
Jun 6, 3:03 PM MDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCClark, Decatur, Edwards, Ellis, Finney, Ford and 23 more117 min
Jun 6, 4:22 PM MDTTornado WatchSPCBarber, Clark, Comanche, Edwards, Ellis, Finney and 26 more8 hr
Jun 6, 12:11 PM MDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCCherry, Cheyenne, Garden, Grant, Morrill, Sheridan2 hr
Jun 6, 12:49 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPCArthur, Banner, Chase, Cherry, Cheyenne, Custer and 15 more7 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.