Alert archive / Kansas / Severe Thunderstorm Watches in 2015
Severe Thunderstorm Watch 286
The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at Jun 11, 2015, 5:03 PM CDT for 19 counties in Kansas; 8 counties in Oklahoma; 10 counties in Texas. It was in force for 9 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 11, 2015, 5:03 PM CDT (22:03 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 12, 2015, 2:00 AM CDT
- In force
- 9 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
- Largest hail expected
- 2 in
- Strongest gust expected
- 60 kt
All 37 counties
Barber County, KS, Clark County, KS, Comanche County, KS, Edwards County, KS, Finney County, KS, Ford County, KS, Grant County, KS, Gray County, KS, Hamilton County, KS, Haskell County, KS, Kearny County, KS, Kiowa County, KS, Meade County, KS, Morton County, KS, Pratt County, KS, Seward County, KS, Stafford County, KS, Stanton County, KS, Stevens 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, Dallam 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
The radar
The Dodge City radar (KDDC), 169 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:07 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
- 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
41 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 11, 5:48 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Pratt | 57 min |
| Jun 11, 6:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AMA | Texas | 60 min |
| Jun 11, 6:05 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AMA | Sherman | 55 min |
| Jun 11, 6:42 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Morton, Stanton | 63 min |
| Jun 11, 6:47 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Hamilton | 21 min |
| Jun 11, 6:48 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AMA | Hansford, Sherman | 57 min |
| Jun 11, 6:59 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AMA | Texas | 61 min |
| Jun 11, 7:26 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Comanche, Kiowa | 49 min |
| Jun 11, 7:34 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Barber, Kiowa, Pratt | 20 min |
| Jun 11, 7:41 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Clark, Comanche | 49 min |
| Jun 11, 7:42 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AMA | Beaver | 93 min |
| Jun 11, 7:46 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AMA | Hansford, Ochiltree | 74 min |
| Jun 11, 8:02 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Morton | 40 min |
| Jun 11, 8:05 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Hamilton, Stanton | 33 min |
| Jun 11, 8:15 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Comanche | 45 min |
| Jun 11, 8:30 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Clark | 45 min |
| Jun 11, 8:32 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Pratt | 43 min |
| Jun 11, 8:47 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Morton | 58 min |
| Jun 11, 8:52 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AMA | Lipscomb, Ochiltree | 53 min |
| Jun 11, 8:55 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Kiowa | 44 min |
| Jun 11, 9:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Pratt, Stafford | 45 min |
| Jun 11, 9:16 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Clark, Comanche | 44 min |
| Jun 11, 9:21 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Edwards, Kiowa, Pratt, Stafford | 38 min |
| Jun 11, 9:34 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Stevens | 31 min |
| Jun 11, 9:43 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Stafford | 17 min |
| Jun 11, 9:44 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AMA | Lipscomb | 76 min |
| Jun 11, 9:46 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Barber | 41 min |
| Jun 11, 9:46 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Barber | 42 min |
| Jun 11, 9:56 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Morton, Stanton | 49 min |
| Jun 11, 9:56 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Harper, Woods | 37 min |
| Jun 11, 10:12 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Ford | 48 min |
| Jun 11, 10:22 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Edwards, Kiowa | 29 min |
| Jun 11, 10:24 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Seward, Stevens | 51 min |
| Jun 11, 10:32 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Ellis | 43 min |
| Jun 11, 10:47 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Morton | 43 min |
| Jun 11, 10:50 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AMA | Moore, Potter | 38 min |
| Jun 11, 10:52 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AMA | Beaver | 38 min |
| Jun 11, 10:58 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Edwards, Ford, Hodgeman, Kiowa | 21 min |
| Jun 11, 11:31 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Harper, Woodward | 28 min |
| Jun 11, 11:54 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Haskell, Seward, Stevens | 30 min |
| Jun 12, 1:10 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AMA | Carson, Gray, Hemphill, Hutchinson, Roberts | 39 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, 10.1 hours before the alert went out and 175 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
- 78 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -332 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1776 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 25 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 164 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 346 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.2
SPC that day
Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 11, 12:56 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Arapahoe, Baca, Bent, Cheyenne, Crowley, Douglas and 8 more | 94 min |
| Jun 11, 1:14 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Baca, Bent, Cheyenne, Crowley, Elbert, El Paso and 8 more | 8 hr |
| Jun 11, 1:49 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Logan, Morgan, Weld | 116 min |
| Jun 11, 2:32 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Archuleta, Dolores, Hinsdale, La Plata, Mineral, Montezuma and 4 more | 118 min |
| Jun 11, 3:38 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Baca, Bent, Cheyenne, Crowley, Custer, Elbert and 9 more | 97 min |
| Jun 11, 1:01 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Brown, Clay, Dickinson, Geary, Jackson, Marshall and 6 more | 119 min |
| Jun 11, 4:47 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Atchison, Barber, Chase, Comanche, Doniphan, Douglas and 18 more | 58 min |
| Jun 11, 4:51 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Clark, Finney, Ford, Grant, Gray, Haskell and 6 more | 54 min |
| Jun 11, 5:22 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Anderson, Atchison, Brown, Chase, Coffey, Doniphan and 19 more | 7 hr |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Watches in Kansas, 2015Severe Thunderstorm Watches in Texas, 2015Severe Thunderstorm Watches in Oklahoma, 2015Every severe thunderstorm watch in 2015
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.