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Severe Thunderstorm Watch 88
The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at Apr 23, 2014, 3:44 PM CDT for 15 counties in Kansas; 21 counties in Oklahoma; 42 counties in Texas. It was in force for 7 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Apr 23, 2014, 3:44 PM CDT (20:44 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 23, 2014, 11:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 7 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
- Largest hail expected
- 3 in
- Strongest gust expected
- 65 kt
All 78 counties
Barber County, KS, Clark County, KS, Comanche County, KS, Edwards County, KS, Finney County, KS, Ford County, KS, Gray County, KS, Haskell County, KS, Hodgeman County, KS, Kiowa County, KS, Meade County, KS, Pawnee County, KS, Pratt County, KS, Seward County, KS, Stafford County, KS, Alfalfa County, OK, Beaver County, OK, Beckham County, OK, Blaine County, OK, Caddo County, OK, Comanche County, OK, Cotton County, OK, Custer County, OK, Dewey County, OK, Ellis County, OK, Greer County, OK, Harmon County, OK, Harper County, OK, Jackson County, OK, Kiowa County, OK, Major County, OK, Roger Mills County, OK, Tillman County, OK, Washita County, OK, Woods County, OK, Woodward County, OK, Archer County, TX, Armstrong County, TX, Baylor County, TX, Briscoe County, TX, Callahan County, TX, Carson County, TX, Childress County, TX, Clay County, TX, Collingsworth County, TX, Cottle County, TX, Crosby County, TX, Dickens County, TX, Donley County, TX, Fisher County, TX, Floyd County, TX, Foard County, TX, Garza County, TX, Gray County, TX, Hall County, TX, Hansford County, TX, Hardeman County, TX, Haskell County, TX, Hemphill County, TX, Hutchinson County, TX, Jones County, TX, Kent County, TX, King County, TX, Knox County, TX, Lipscomb County, TX, Mitchell County, TX, Motley County, TX, Nolan County, TX, Ochiltree County, TX, Roberts County, TX, Scurry County, TX, Shackelford County, TX, Stonewall County, TX, Taylor County, TX, Throckmorton County, TX, Wheeler County, TX, Wichita County, TX, Wilbarger County, TX
The radar
The Amarillo radar (KAMA), 156 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:44 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
- 2%
- Ten or more severe wind reports
- 60%
- One or more gusts of 65 knots or more
- 30%
- Ten or more severe hail reports
- 90%
- One or more hailstones of 2 inches or more
- 50%
- Six or more combined severe hail and wind reports
- 95%
Warnings issued inside it
31 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 23, 4:04 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AMA | Collingsworth, Donley | 56 min |
| Apr 23, 4:27 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Hall, Motley | 33 min |
| Apr 23, 4:40 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AMA | Collingsworth, Donley, Wheeler | 65 min |
| Apr 23, 4:48 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Hall | 27 min |
| Apr 23, 4:57 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Beckham, Greer, Harmon | 63 min |
| Apr 23, 5:27 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Meade, Seward | 63 min |
| Apr 23, 5:38 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Childress | 37 min |
| Apr 23, 5:43 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Stonewall | 32 min |
| Apr 23, 5:48 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Baylor, Foard, Knox, Wilbarger | 42 min |
| Apr 23, 5:53 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Foard, Hardeman | 52 min |
| Apr 23, 5:56 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Beckham, Custer, Greer, Kiowa, Washita | 64 min |
| Apr 23, 6:03 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Ford, Gray, Hodgeman | 42 min |
| Apr 23, 6:11 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Clark, Meade | 49 min |
| Apr 23, 6:20 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SJT | Haskell | 40 min |
| Apr 23, 6:27 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Baylor, Wilbarger | 48 min |
| Apr 23, 6:30 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Foard, Hardeman, Wilbarger | 45 min |
| Apr 23, 6:32 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Greer, Harmon, Jackson | 58 min |
| Apr 23, 6:56 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Clark, Ford, Meade | 49 min |
| Apr 23, 6:56 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Kiowa, Washita | 64 min |
| Apr 23, 6:56 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SJT | Haskell | 49 min |
| Apr 23, 7:01 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Archer, Baylor, Wichita, Wilbarger | 44 min |
| Apr 23, 7:10 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SJT | Haskell | 50 min |
| Apr 23, 7:37 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Clay, Wichita, Wilbarger | 38 min |
| Apr 23, 7:43 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SJT | Haskell, Throckmorton | 47 min |
| Apr 23, 7:53 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Edwards, Ford, Kiowa | 52 min |
| Apr 23, 8:03 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SJT | Coke, Nolan, Sterling | 42 min |
| Apr 23, 8:11 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Clay, Wichita | 49 min |
| Apr 23, 8:23 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SJT | Throckmorton | 67 min |
| Apr 23, 8:44 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Kiowa, Washita | 46 min |
| Apr 23, 9:19 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Caddo, Comanche, Kiowa | 41 min |
| Apr 23, 9:41 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SJT | Callahan, Taylor | 49 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
Amarillo Airport, TX (KAMA), launched 12:00Z, 8.7 hours before the alert went out and 155 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
- 9 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -469 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1654 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 35 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 133 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 171 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
SPC that day
Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 23, 2:34 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Barton, Ellis, Gove, Graham, Jewell, Lane and 11 more | 2 hr |
| Apr 23, 2:37 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Clark, Comanche, Edwards, Finney, Ford, Gray and 5 more | 113 min |
| Apr 23, 3:04 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Barton, Cloud, Decatur, Ellis, Gove, Graham and 19 more | 8 hr |
| Apr 23, 3:32 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Cheyenne | 2 hr |
| Apr 23, 6:16 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Barton, Cloud, Decatur, Ellis, Gove, Graham and 18 more | 59 min |
| Apr 23, 6:54 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Barber, Clark, Comanche, Edwards, Finney, Ford and 9 more | 96 min |
| Apr 23, 3:54 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Coke, Concho, Crockett, Edwards, Irion, Kimble and 10 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.