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Severe Thunderstorm Watch 286
The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at Jun 11, 2014, 9:49 PM CDT for 24 counties in Kansas; 28 counties in Oklahoma. It was in force for 6 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 11, 2014, 9:49 PM CDT (02:49 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 12, 2014, 4:00 AM CDT
- In force
- 6 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
- Largest hail expected
- 1.5 in
- Strongest gust expected
- 60 kt
All 52 counties
Barber County, KS, Barton County, KS, Butler County, KS, Chase County, KS, Comanche County, KS, Cowley County, KS, Edwards County, KS, Ellsworth County, KS, Harper County, KS, Harvey County, KS, Kingman County, KS, Kiowa County, KS, Lincoln County, KS, Marion County, KS, McPherson County, KS, Pawnee County, KS, Pratt County, KS, Reno County, KS, Rice County, KS, Russell County, KS, Saline County, KS, Sedgwick County, KS, Stafford County, KS, Sumner County, KS, Alfalfa County, OK, Blaine County, OK, Caddo County, OK, Canadian County, OK, Cleveland County, OK, Custer County, OK, Dewey County, OK, Ellis County, OK, Garfield County, OK, Grady County, OK, Grant County, OK, Harper County, OK, Hughes County, OK, Kay County, OK, Kingfisher County, OK, Lincoln County, OK, Logan County, OK, Major County, OK, McClain County, OK, Noble County, OK, Oklahoma County, OK, Payne County, OK, Pottawatomie County, OK, Roger Mills County, OK, Seminole County, OK, Washita County, OK, Woods County, OK, Woodward County, OK
The radar
The Vance AFB radar (KVNX), 74 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 02:52 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
- 50%
- One or more gusts of 65 knots or more
- 20%
- Ten or more severe hail reports
- 30%
- One or more hailstones of 2 inches or more
- 10%
- Six or more combined severe hail and wind reports
- 70%
Warnings issued inside it
19 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 11, 10:11 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Barber, Ford, Kiowa, Pawnee, Pratt, Stafford | 64 min |
| Jun 11, 10:25 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Ellis, Harper, Woods, Woodward | 50 min |
| Jun 11, 10:34 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Barton, Russell | 56 min |
| Jun 11, 10:40 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Reno | 50 min |
| Jun 11, 10:47 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Ellsworth, Rice | 43 min |
| Jun 11, 11:13 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Barber, Clark, Comanche, Ford, Kiowa, Pratt and 1 more | 62 min |
| Jun 11, 11:14 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Dewey, Ellis, Major, Roger Mills, Woods, Woodward | 46 min |
| Jun 11, 11:55 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Blaine, Custer, Dewey, Ellis, Kingfisher, Major and 2 more | 50 min |
| Jun 11, 11:56 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Harper | 34 min |
| Jun 12, 12:00 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Ellsworth, Saline | 45 min |
| Jun 12, 12:05 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Alfalfa, Grant, Woods | 40 min |
| Jun 12, 12:10 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Barber | 35 min |
| Jun 12, 12:24 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Harper | 32 min |
| Jun 12, 12:31 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Saline | 29 min |
| Jun 12, 12:40 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Ellis, Roger Mills | 35 min |
| Jun 12, 12:45 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Alfalfa, Blaine, Caddo, Canadian, Garfield, Grant and 5 more | 45 min |
| Jun 12, 1:12 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Blaine, Caddo, Canadian, Cleveland, Garfield, Grady and 8 more | 48 min |
| Jun 12, 1:48 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Caddo, Canadian, Cleveland, Comanche, Garfield, Grady and 9 more | 42 min |
| Jun 12, 2:28 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Canadian, Cleveland, Garvin, Grady, Hughes, Lincoln and 9 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
Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 00:00Z, 2.8 hours before the alert went out and 125 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
- 1716 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -157 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 2429 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 28 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 46 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 117 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 2.7
SPC that day
Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 11, 7:27 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Ellis, Jewell, Mitchell, Osborne, Phillips, Rooks and 3 more | 33 min |
| Jun 11, 7:49 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Barton, Ellsworth, Jewell, Lincoln, Mitchell, Osborne and 3 more | 4 hr |
| Jun 11, 8:41 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Barber, Butler, Comanche, Cowley, Edwards, Harper and 12 more | 94 min |
| Jun 11, 11:41 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Butler, Cowley, Dickinson, Harper, Harvey, McPherson and 4 more | 94 min |
| Jun 12, 12:59 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Creek, Haskell, Latimer, McIntosh, Muskogee, Nowata and 9 more | 5 hr |
| Jun 12, 2:12 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Caddo, Canadian, Cleveland, Creek, Custer, Garvin and 28 more | 2 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.