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Severe Thunderstorm Watch 357
The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at Jun 25, 2015, 8:49 PM MDT for Cheyenne County, Kit Carson County, Yuma County, Colorado; 13 counties in Kansas; Dundy County, Hitchcock County, Red Willow County, Nebraska. It was in force for 5 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 25, 2015, 8:49 PM MDT (02:49 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 26, 2015, 2:13 AM MDT
- In force
- 5 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
- Largest hail expected
- 2 in
- Strongest gust expected
- 60 kt
Counties Cheyenne County, CO, Kit Carson County, CO, Yuma County, CO, Cheyenne County, KS, Decatur County, KS, Gove County, KS, Graham County, KS, Greeley County, KS, Logan County, KS, Norton County, KS, Rawlins County, KS, Sheridan County, KS, Sherman County, KS, Thomas County, KS, Wallace County, KS, Wichita County, KS, Dundy County, NE, Hitchcock County, NE, Red Willow County, NE
The radar
The Goodland radar (KGLD), 24 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 02:50 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
- 20%
- 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
- 70%
Warnings issued inside it
11 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 25, 8:55 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Dundy, Hitchcock | 50 min |
| Jun 25, 9:09 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Yuma | 39 min |
| Jun 25, 10:21 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Logan, Sherman, Thomas, Wallace | 39 min |
| Jun 25, 10:58 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Greeley, Logan, Wallace, Wichita | 47 min |
| Jun 25, 11:08 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Cheyenne | 52 min |
| Jun 25, 11:14 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Logan, Wichita | 46 min |
| Jun 25, 11:33 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Gove, Logan | 42 min |
| Jun 25, 11:43 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | GLD | Gove, Logan | 15 min |
| Jun 25, 11:53 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Wichita | 37 min |
| Jun 25, 11:54 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Cheyenne | 19 min |
| Jun 26, 12:11 AM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Greeley, Wichita | 49 min |
Discussions around it
SPC mesoscale discussions over the same counties from four hours before the watch to its end.
SPC that day
Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 25, 8:23 PM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Yuma | 67 min |
| Jun 25, 9:30 PM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Adams, Arapahoe, Broomfield, Denver, Morgan, Weld | 30 min |
| Jun 25, 10:48 PM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Baca, Cheyenne, Kiowa, Kit Carson, Prowers | 87 min |
| Jun 25, 6:04 PM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Barton, Edwards, Ellsworth, Ford, Gray, Haskell and 12 more | 86 min |
| Jun 25, 8:06 PM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Atchison, Brown, Clay, Cloud, Doniphan, Jackson and 10 more | 84 min |
| Jun 25, 10:33 PM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Atchison, Brown, Doniphan, Douglas, Franklin, Geary and 12 more | 87 min |
| Jun 26, 12:46 AM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Allen, Anderson, Bourbon, Crawford, Douglas, Franklin and 5 more | 59 min |
| Jun 26, 1:18 AM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Bourbon, Linn, Miami | 3 hr |
| Jun 26, 1:24 AM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Finney, Gove, Grant, Gray, Greeley, Hamilton and 10 more | 96 min |
| Jun 26, 4:24 AM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Barber, Butler, Chase, Chautauqua, Cowley, Elk and 9 more | 96 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.