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Severe Thunderstorm Watch 268
The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at Jun 7, 2015, 2:03 PM MDT for 5 states. It was in force for 6 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 7, 2015, 2:03 PM MDT (20:03 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 7, 2015, 8:00 PM MDT
- In force
- 6 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
- Largest hail expected
- 2 in
- Strongest gust expected
- 60 kt
All 34 counties
Baca County, CO, Prowers County, CO, Finney County, KS, Grant County, KS, Gray County, KS, Hamilton County, KS, Haskell County, KS, Kearny County, KS, Meade County, KS, Morton County, KS, Seward County, KS, Stanton County, KS, Stevens County, KS, Colfax County, NM, Guadalupe County, NM, Harding County, NM, Mora County, NM, Quay County, NM, San Miguel County, NM, Union County, NM, Beaver County, OK, Cimarron County, OK, Texas County, OK, Dallam County, TX, Hansford County, TX, Hartley County, TX, Hemphill County, TX, Hutchinson County, TX, Lipscomb County, TX, Moore County, TX, Ochiltree County, TX, Oldham County, TX, Roberts County, TX, Sherman County, TX
The radar
The Amarillo radar (KAMA), 188 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:06 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
- 10%
- One or more EF2 to EF5 tornadoes
- 2%
- Ten or more severe wind reports
- 40%
- 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
7 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 7, 2:09 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABQ | Guadalupe | 25 min |
| Jun 7, 2:10 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | Baca | 37 min |
| Jun 7, 2:12 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AMA | Beaver, Texas | 93 min |
| Jun 7, 2:22 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABQ | Guadalupe | 33 min |
| Jun 7, 4:38 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AMA | Dallam, Hartley, Moore, Sherman | 81 min |
| Jun 7, 5:39 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AMA | Hemphill, Lipscomb, Ochiltree, Roberts | 96 min |
| Jun 7, 6:45 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AMA | Collingsworth, Donley, Gray, Hemphill, Lipscomb, Roberts and 1 more | 90 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, 8.1 hours before the alert went out and 189 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
- 7 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -310 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1568 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 17 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 86 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 130 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 6, 6:55 PM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Adams, Arapahoe, Cheyenne, Elbert, Kiowa, Kit Carson and 7 more | 95 min |
| Jun 6, 9:33 PM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Adams, Arapahoe, Cheyenne, Denver, Elbert, Kiowa and 6 more | 57 min |
| Jun 7, 1:36 PM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Adams, Arapahoe, Baca, Bent, Cheyenne, Crowley and 17 more | 114 min |
| Jun 7, 5:19 PM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Baca, Prowers | 86 min |
| Jun 7, 4:31 PM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Atchison, Barton, Brown, Clay, Cloud, Dickinson and 27 more | 89 min |
| Jun 7, 12:14 PM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Chaves, Colfax, Curry, De Baca, Guadalupe, Harding and 6 more | 3 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.