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Severe Thunderstorm Watch 352

June 24, 201433 counties in Kansas

The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at Jun 24, 2014, 2:06 PM CDT for 33 counties in Kansas. It was in force for 7 hr.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued
Jun 24, 2014, 2:06 PM CDT (19:06 UTC)
Expired
Jun 24, 2014, 9:00 PM CDT
In force
7 hr
Issued by
the Storm Prediction Center
Largest hail expected
2 in
Strongest gust expected
60 kt
All 33 counties

Barber County, KS, Clark County, KS, Comanche County, KS, Edwards County, KS, Finney County, KS, Ford County, KS, Gove County, KS, Grant County, KS, Gray County, KS, Greeley County, KS, Hamilton County, KS, Harper County, KS, Haskell County, KS, Hodgeman County, KS, Kearny County, KS, Kingman County, KS, Kiowa County, KS, Lane County, KS, Logan County, KS, Meade County, KS, Morton County, KS, Ness County, KS, Pawnee County, KS, Pratt County, KS, Scott County, KS, Seward County, KS, Sherman County, KS, Stafford County, KS, Stanton County, KS, Stevens County, KS, Thomas County, KS, Wallace County, KS, Wichita County, KS

The radar

The Dodge City radar (KDDC), 101 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:08 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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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
30%
One or more hailstones of 2 inches or more
30%
Six or more combined severe hail and wind reports
60%

Warnings issued inside it

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 24, 2:10 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningDDCScott3 hr
Jun 24, 2:24 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGLDLogan, Wallace, Wichita36 min
Jun 24, 2:28 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGLDGove, Logan47 min
Jun 24, 2:38 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGLDGreeley, Wallace22 min
Jun 24, 2:51 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCFord, Hodgeman39 min
Jun 24, 2:55 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningGLDGreeley, Logan, Wallace, Wichita5 hr
Jun 24, 2:59 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCFinney, Kearny, Scott46 min
Jun 24, 3:04 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGLDWichita26 min
Jun 24, 3:19 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCKearny41 min
Jun 24, 3:26 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCEdwards, Ford, Hodgeman49 min
Jun 24, 3:31 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningDDCHodgeman3 hr
Jun 24, 3:40 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningDDCPratt3 hr
Jun 24, 3:43 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCFinney, Gray, Kearny62 min
Jun 24, 4:19 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCFinney, Gray56 min
Jun 24, 4:38 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCEdwards, Kiowa31 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, 7.1 hours before the alert went out and 103 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 12:00Z on 2014-06-24Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 283 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 12:00Z on 2014-06-24The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 11 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
283 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-154 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1570 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
23 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
11 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
41 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.8

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SPC that day

Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 23, 8:29 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCCheyenne, Greeley, Sherman, Wallace2 hr
Jun 23, 11:27 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCCheyenne, Grant, Greeley, Hamilton, Kearny, Logan and 7 more63 min
Jun 24, 12:53 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCEdwards, Finney, Ford, Gove, Gray, Greeley and 15 more2 hr
Jun 24, 5:38 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCBarber, Butler, Chautauqua, Clark, Comanche, Cowley and 27 more97 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.