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Severe Thunderstorm Watch 347

June 22, 201447 counties in Kansas; 8 counties in Oklahoma; 13 counties in Texas

The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at Jun 22, 2014, 3:47 PM CDT for 47 counties in Kansas; 8 counties in Oklahoma; 13 counties in Texas. It was in force for 6 hr.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued: Jun 22, 2014, 3:47 PM CDT (20:47 UTC)
Expired: Jun 22, 2014, 10:00 PM CDT
In force: 6 hr
Issued by: the Storm Prediction Center
Largest hail expected: 2 in
Strongest gust expected: 60 kt

All 68 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, Grant County, KS, Gray County, KS, Greeley County, KS, Hamilton 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, McPherson County, KS, Meade County, KS, Morton County, KS, Ness 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, Seward County, KS, Sheridan County, KS, Sherman County, KS, Stafford County, KS, Stanton County, KS, Stevens County, KS, Thomas County, KS, Trego County, KS, Wallace County, KS, Wichita County, KS, Beaver County, OK, Cimarron County, OK, Ellis County, OK, Harper County, OK, Roger Mills County, OK, Texas County, OK, Woods County, OK, Woodward County, OK, Carson County, TX, Dallam County, TX, Gray County, TX, Hansford County, TX, Hartley County, TX, Hemphill County, TX, Hutchinson County, TX, Lipscomb County, TX, Moore County, TX, Ochiltree County, TX, Roberts County, TX, Sherman County, TX, Wheeler County, TX

The radar

The Dodge City radar (KDDC), 42 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:50 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: 5%
Ten or more severe wind reports: 80%
One or more gusts of 65 knots or more: 20%
Ten or more severe hail reports: 60%
One or more hailstones of 2 inches or more: 30%
Six or more combined severe hail and wind reports: 90%

Warnings issued inside it

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 22, 4:08 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Clark, Meade	52 min
Jun 22, 4:12 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Russell	48 min
Jun 22, 4:15 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Ellis	45 min
Jun 22, 4:15 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AMA	Beaver	60 min
Jun 22, 4:32 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Edwards, Ford, Hodgeman	43 min
Jun 22, 4:45 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Clark, Ford, Gray, Meade	45 min
Jun 22, 4:53 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Barton	37 min
Jun 22, 4:58 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Ford	47 min
Jun 22, 4:59 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Russell	46 min
Jun 22, 5:05 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AMA	Beaver	55 min
Jun 22, 5:11 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Cheyenne	49 min
Jun 22, 5:24 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Barton	51 min
Jun 22, 5:26 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Clark, Ford, Gray, Meade	49 min
Jun 22, 5:31 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Sherman	41 min
Jun 22, 5:35 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Clark, Comanche, Edwards, Ford, Kiowa	55 min
Jun 22, 5:38 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Barton	37 min
Jun 22, 5:43 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AMA	Beaver	62 min
Jun 22, 5:45 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Ellsworth	45 min
Jun 22, 5:48 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	AMA	Beaver	3 hr
Jun 22, 5:49 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Pawnee, Rush	41 min
Jun 22, 5:58 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	AMA	Beaver	17 min
Jun 22, 6:06 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Greeley	54 min
Jun 22, 6:11 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Clark, Ford, Gray, Meade	49 min
Jun 22, 6:11 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	AMA	Beaver	49 min
Jun 22, 6:14 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AMA	Beaver	61 min
Jun 22, 6:36 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Wallace	39 min
Jun 22, 6:39 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Sherman	51 min
Jun 22, 6:40 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Finney, Gray, Haskell	11 min
Jun 22, 6:40 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	AMA	Lipscomb	50 min
Jun 22, 6:46 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Greeley, Wichita	59 min
Jun 22, 6:53 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AMA	Lipscomb	67 min
Jun 22, 7:04 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Finney, Kearny, Scott	41 min
Jun 22, 7:05 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Logan, Wallace	55 min
Jun 22, 7:07 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Hamilton, Kearny	38 min
Jun 22, 7:15 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	AMA	Lipscomb	3 hr
Jun 22, 7:29 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	AMA	Lipscomb	24 min
Jun 22, 7:34 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Finney, Grant, Haskell, Kearny, Lane, Scott and 1 more	41 min
Jun 22, 7:45 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AMA	Beaver	35 min
Jun 22, 7:46 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Logan	44 min
Jun 22, 7:52 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AMA	Cimarron	53 min
Jun 22, 7:57 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AMA	Hemphill, Lipscomb	63 min
Jun 22, 7:59 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Comanche	20 min
Jun 22, 8:12 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Finney, Grant, Gray, Haskell, Hodgeman, Kearny and 3 more	48 min
Jun 22, 8:12 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Gove	63 min
Jun 22, 8:38 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Seward, Stevens	52 min
Jun 22, 8:43 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Scott	47 min
Jun 22, 8:43 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AMA	Hemphill, Lipscomb, Ochiltree, Roberts	62 min
Jun 22, 8:55 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Finney, Ford, Gray, Haskell, Hodgeman, Lane and 1 more	50 min
Jun 22, 9:01 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Gove, Sheridan	48 min
Jun 22, 9:06 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	DDC	Ford, Gray, Haskell	6 hr
Jun 22, 9:07 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AMA	Beaver, Texas	53 min
Jun 22, 9:14 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	AMA	Hemphill, Ochiltree, Roberts	46 min
Jun 22, 9:15 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Harper	45 min
Jun 22, 9:26 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	AMA	Beaver	2 hr
Jun 22, 9:28 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Clark, Meade, Seward	47 min
Jun 22, 9:38 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AMA	Hemphill, Lipscomb, Ochiltree, Roberts	67 min
Jun 22, 9:46 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AMA	Beaver, Texas	59 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, 8.8 hours before the alert went out and 48 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: 1291 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -141 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1017 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 31 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 67 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 37 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: -0.5

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SPC that day

Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 22, 12:24 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Atchison, Brown, Dickinson, Doniphan, Douglas, Geary and 10 more	66 min
Jun 22, 2:57 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Barton, Clark, Clay, Cloud, Edwards, Ellis and 23 more	63 min
Jun 22, 6:25 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Clark, Comanche, Edwards, Ford, Grant, Gray and 7 more	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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.