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Severe Thunderstorm Watch 253
The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at Jun 13, 2016, 6:49 PM CDT for 23 counties in Kansas; 4 counties in Oklahoma. It was in force for 6 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 13, 2016, 6:49 PM CDT (23:49 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 14, 2016, 12:37 AM CDT
- In force
- 6 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
- Largest hail expected
- 1.5 in
- Strongest gust expected
- 60 kt
All 27 counties
Clark County, KS, Comanche County, KS, Edwards County, KS, Finney County, KS, Ford County, KS, Grant County, KS, Gray County, KS, Greeley County, KS, Hamilton County, KS, Haskell County, KS, Hodgeman County, KS, Kearny County, KS, Kiowa County, KS, Lane County, KS, Meade County, KS, Morton County, KS, Ness County, KS, Pawnee County, KS, Scott County, KS, Seward County, KS, Stanton County, KS, Stevens County, KS, Wichita County, KS, Ellis County, OK, Harper County, OK, Roger Mills County, OK, Woodward County, OK
The radar
The Dodge City radar (KDDC), 67 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:48 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
- 10%
- Six or more combined severe hail and wind reports
- 60%
Warnings issued inside it
2 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 13, 6:51 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Grant, Hamilton, Haskell, Kearny, Morton, Seward and 2 more | 54 min |
| Jun 13, 11:59 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Dewey, Ellis, Roger Mills, Woodward | 46 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, 11.8 hours before the alert went out and 74 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1739 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 49 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -151 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -55 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 13, 1:13 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Finney, Ford, Grant, Gray, Haskell, Kearny and 4 more | 92 min |
| Jun 13, 2:27 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Cheyenne, Greeley, Hamilton, Morton, Sherman, Stanton and 1 more | 8 hr |
| Jun 13, 5:16 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Greeley, Hamilton, Morton, Sherman, Stanton, Wallace | 89 min |
| Jun 13, 6:17 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Finney, Ford, Gray, Haskell, Lane, Meade | 88 min |
| Jun 13, 6:12 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Beaver | 63 min |
| Jun 13, 6:31 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Beaver, Cimarron, Texas | 6 hr |
| Jun 13, 4:43 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Andrews, Bailey, Borden, Cochran, Dawson, Gaines and 10 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.