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Tornado Watch 246

June 6, 2014Beaver County, Cimarron County, Texas County, Oklahoma; 32 counties in Texas

The Storm Prediction Center issued this tornado watch at Jun 6, 2014, 6:44 PM CDT for Beaver County, Cimarron County, Texas County, Oklahoma; 32 counties in Texas. It was in force for 6 hr.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued
Jun 6, 2014, 6:44 PM CDT (23:44 UTC)
Expired
Jun 7, 2014, 1:00 AM CDT
In force
6 hr
Issued by
the Storm Prediction Center
All 35 counties

Beaver County, OK, Cimarron County, OK, Texas County, OK, Armstrong County, TX, Bailey County, TX, Briscoe County, TX, Carson County, TX, Castro County, TX, Childress County, TX, Cochran County, TX, Collingsworth County, TX, Dallam County, TX, Deaf Smith County, TX, Donley County, TX, Floyd County, TX, Gray County, TX, Hale County, TX, Hall County, TX, Hansford County, TX, Hartley County, TX, Hemphill County, TX, Hutchinson County, TX, Lamb County, TX, Lipscomb County, TX, Moore County, TX, Ochiltree County, TX, Oldham County, TX, Parmer County, TX, Potter County, TX, Randall County, TX, Roberts County, TX, Sherman County, TX, Swisher County, TX, Wheeler County, TX, Yoakum County, TX

The radar

The Amarillo radar (KAMA), 44 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:47 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.

Warnings issued inside it

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 6, 6:44 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningAMAHutchinson, Moore61 min
Jun 6, 6:52 PM CDTTornado WarningAMAHansford, Ochiltree38 min
Jun 6, 7:06 PM CDTTornado WarningAMADallam, Hartley39 min
Jun 6, 7:14 PM CDTTornado WarningLUBBailey, Parmer35 min
Jun 6, 7:28 PM CDTTornado WarningAMAMoore, Sherman32 min
Jun 6, 7:34 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningAMADallam, Hansford, Ochiltree, Sherman56 min
Jun 6, 7:43 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningAMAHartley62 min
Jun 6, 7:47 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLUBBailey, Parmer43 min
Jun 6, 7:48 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningAMAHartley, Hutchinson, Moore, Potter, Randall57 min
Jun 6, 7:51 PM CDTTornado WarningAMAOchiltree39 min
Jun 6, 7:58 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningAMABeaver, Texas62 min
Jun 6, 8:05 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningAMAHutchinson, Moore, Roberts55 min
Jun 6, 8:46 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLUBBailey, Cochran44 min
Jun 6, 8:50 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningAMABeaver, Texas2 hr
Jun 6, 8:51 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLUBCastro, Swisher39 min
Jun 6, 8:56 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningAMACarson, Gray, Hutchinson, Roberts64 min
Jun 6, 8:59 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLUBCastro, Hale, Lamb, Swisher46 min
Jun 6, 9:15 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningAMAPotter, Randall40 min
Jun 6, 9:19 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningAMABeaver56 min
Jun 6, 9:28 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningAMAArmstrong, Carson49 min
Jun 6, 9:53 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningAMACollingsworth, Donley, Gray, Wheeler67 min
Jun 6, 11:00 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningAMACollingsworth15 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, 11.7 hours before the alert went out and 45 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, Amarillo Airport, TX at 12:00Z on 2014-06-06Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 52 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, Amarillo Airport, TX at 12:00Z on 2014-06-06The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -79 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
52 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-507 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
2307 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
54 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-79 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
447 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
3.1

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SPC that day

Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 5, 7:37 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCCimarron113 min
Jun 5, 7:54 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCCimarron, Texas2 hr
Jun 5, 9:14 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCCraig, Delaware, Grant, Kay, Noble, Nowata and 3 more3 hr
Jun 5, 9:36 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPCAdair, Alfalfa, Cherokee, Craig, Creek, Delaware and 15 more7 hr
Jun 5, 11:49 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCCimarron116 min
Jun 6, 1:17 AM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCBeckham, Blaine, Caddo, Canadian, Carter, Cleveland and 28 more88 min
Jun 6, 1:43 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPCAlfalfa, Beaver, Beckham, Blaine, Caddo, Canadian and 27 more6 hr
Jun 6, 4:05 AM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCAdair, Beckham, Blaine, Caddo, Canadian, Cherokee and 39 more115 min
Jun 6, 5:47 AM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCBeaver, Beckham, Blaine, Caddo, Canadian, Comanche and 13 more88 min
Jun 6, 7:02 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPCAdair, Atoka, Bryan, Carter, Cherokee, Choctaw and 30 more5 hr
Jun 6, 9:52 AM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCLeFlore, McCurtain53 min
Jun 6, 10:18 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPCMcCurtain5 hr
Jun 6, 1:29 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCAlfalfa, Beaver, Grant, Harper, Major, Woods and 1 more3 hr
Jun 6, 3:23 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCCimarron, Texas67 min
Jun 6, 3:43 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCBeaver, Cimarron, Texas6 hr
Jun 6, 6:25 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCBeaver, Cimarron, Texas95 min
Jun 6, 1:51 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCDallam, Deaf Smith, Hartley, Oldham, Parmer114 min
Jun 6, 5:07 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCAndrews, Ector, Gaines, Loving, Reeves, Ward and 2 more113 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.