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Severe Thunderstorm Watch 296

June 14, 201431 counties in Kansas

The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at Jun 14, 2014, 8:51 PM CDT for 31 counties in Kansas. It was in force for 6 hr.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued
Jun 14, 2014, 8:51 PM CDT (01:51 UTC)
Expired
Jun 15, 2014, 3:00 AM CDT
In force
6 hr
Issued by
the Storm Prediction Center
Largest hail expected
2 in
Strongest gust expected
60 kt
All 31 counties

Barber County, KS, Barton County, KS, Clark County, KS, Comanche County, KS, Edwards County, KS, Ellis County, KS, Finney County, KS, Ford County, KS, Gove County, KS, Grant County, KS, Gray County, KS, Greeley County, KS, Haskell County, KS, Hodgeman County, KS, Kearny County, KS, Kiowa County, KS, Lane County, KS, Logan County, KS, Meade County, KS, Ness County, KS, Pawnee County, KS, Pratt County, KS, Rush County, KS, Russell County, KS, Scott County, KS, Seward County, KS, Stafford County, KS, Stevens County, KS, Trego County, KS, Wallace County, KS, Wichita County, KS

The radar

The Dodge City radar (KDDC), 63 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:54 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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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
30%
Six or more combined severe hail and wind reports
70%

Warnings issued inside it

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 14, 8:58 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCFinney, Grant, Haskell, Kearny, Stanton62 min
Jun 14, 9:14 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGLDDecatur, Gove, Logan, Sheridan61 min
Jun 14, 9:31 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGLDGove, Logan, Rawlins, Thomas59 min
Jun 14, 9:43 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCFinney, Ford, Gray, Haskell, Hodgeman47 min
Jun 14, 10:13 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCFord, Gray, Haskell, Meade47 min
Jun 14, 10:22 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCEllis, Lane, Ness, Rush, Trego68 min
Jun 14, 10:25 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCFinney, Ford, Gray, Hodgeman65 min
Jun 14, 10:58 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCClark, Ford, Gray, Haskell, Meade, Seward62 min
Jun 14, 11:05 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCEdwards, Ford, Hodgeman, Kiowa, Pawnee, Pratt and 1 more55 min
Jun 14, 11:12 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningICTBarton, Lincoln, Russell63 min
Jun 14, 11:14 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCEllis, Pawnee, Rush46 min
Jun 14, 11:51 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCEdwards, Kiowa, Pawnee, Pratt, Stafford39 min
Jun 14, 11:54 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCEdwards, Ford, Kiowa36 min
Jun 15, 12:07 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningICTBarton, Reno, Rice23 min
Jun 15, 12:10 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningDDCFord3 hr
Jun 15, 12:25 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCClark, Ford, Kiowa50 min
Jun 15, 12:34 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCBarber, Comanche, Edwards, Kiowa, Pratt, Stafford41 min
Jun 15, 1:10 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCBarber, Clark, Comanche, Kiowa, Pratt, Stafford65 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, 1.9 hours before the alert went out and 63 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 00:00Z on 2014-06-15Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 318 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 00:00Z on 2014-06-15The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 32 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 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
318 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-7 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
3517 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
27 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
32 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
83 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
1.1

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SPC that day

Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 14, 7:39 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCJewell, Republic, Smith96 min
Jun 14, 7:55 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCClark, Comanche, Edwards, Ellis, Finney, Ford and 13 more95 min
Jun 14, 8:21 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCDecatur, Norton, Rawlins, Sheridan, Sherman, Thomas84 min
Jun 14, 9:39 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCJewell, Phillips, Smith96 min
Jun 14, 10:56 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCButler, Chase, Cowley, Ellsworth, Harper, Harvey and 8 more94 min
Jun 14, 11:22 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCCloud, Jewell, Marshall, Mitchell, Republic, Washington53 min
Jun 14, 11:32 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPCButler, Chase, Chautauqua, Cowley, Elk, Ellsworth and 12 more5 hr
Jun 14, 11:46 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPCBrown, Clay, Cloud, Dickinson, Geary, Jackson and 13 more5 hr
Jun 15, 12:37 AM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCBarber, Butler, Clark, Comanche, Cowley, Harper and 8 more83 min
Jun 15, 1:10 AM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCAllen, Anderson, Atchison, Brown, Butler, Chase and 34 more95 min
Jun 15, 1:50 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPCAnderson, Atchison, Coffey, Doniphan, Douglas, Franklin and 7 more4 hr
Jun 15, 2:42 AM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCAllen, Butler, Chautauqua, Cherokee, Cowley, Crawford and 8 more93 min
Jun 15, 3:00 AM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCAnderson, Atchison, Coffey, Doniphan, Douglas, Franklin and 7 more90 min
Jun 15, 4:42 AM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCCherokee, Crawford, Labette93 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.