Alert archive / Kansas / Severe Thunderstorm Watches in 2016
Severe Thunderstorm Watch 307
The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at Jun 28, 2016, 7:55 PM MDT for Cheyenne County, Kit Carson County, Yuma County, Colorado; 42 counties in Kansas; 31 counties in Nebraska. It was in force for 7 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 28, 2016, 7:55 PM MDT (01:55 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 29, 2016, 3:00 AM MDT
- In force
- 7 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
- Largest hail expected
- 2 in
- Strongest gust expected
- 70 kt
All 76 counties
Cheyenne County, CO, Kit Carson County, CO, Yuma County, CO, Barton County, KS, Cheyenne County, KS, Clark County, KS, Decatur County, KS, Ellis County, KS, Ellsworth County, KS, Finney County, KS, Ford County, KS, Gove County, KS, Graham County, KS, Grant County, KS, Gray County, KS, Greeley County, KS, Hamilton County, KS, Haskell County, KS, Hodgeman County, KS, Kearny County, KS, Lane County, KS, Lincoln County, KS, Logan County, KS, Meade County, KS, Morton County, KS, Ness County, KS, Norton County, KS, Osborne County, KS, Pawnee County, KS, Phillips County, KS, Rawlins County, KS, Rooks County, KS, Rush County, KS, Russell County, KS, Scott County, KS, Seward County, KS, Sheridan County, KS, Sherman County, KS, Smith County, KS, Stanton County, KS, Stevens County, KS, Thomas County, KS, Trego County, KS, Wallace County, KS, Wichita County, KS, Arthur County, NE, Blaine County, NE, Brown County, NE, Buffalo County, NE, Chase County, NE, Custer County, NE, Dawson County, NE, Dundy County, NE, Franklin County, NE, Frontier County, NE, Furnas County, NE, Garfield County, NE, Gosper County, NE, Grant County, NE, Harlan County, NE, Hayes County, NE, Hitchcock County, NE, Hooker County, NE, Kearney County, NE, Keith County, NE, Lincoln County, NE, Logan County, NE, Loup County, NE, McPherson County, NE, Perkins County, NE, Phelps County, NE, Red Willow County, NE, Rock County, NE, Sherman County, NE, Thomas County, NE, Valley County, NE
The radar
The Goodland radar (KGLD), 110 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:58 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
- 20%
- One or more EF2 to EF5 tornadoes
- 10%
- Ten or more severe wind reports
- 80%
- One or more gusts of 65 knots or more
- 50%
- 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
- 95%
Warnings issued inside it
47 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 28, 7:55 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Arthur, Keith, Lincoln, McPherson | 50 min |
| Jun 28, 8:04 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Keith, Perkins | 26 min |
| Jun 28, 8:07 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Brown, Keya Paha | 23 min |
| Jun 28, 8:14 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Yuma | 46 min |
| Jun 28, 8:25 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Keith, Lincoln, Logan, McPherson | 35 min |
| Jun 28, 8:27 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Chase, Hayes, Lincoln, Perkins | 33 min |
| Jun 28, 8:42 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Kit Carson, Yuma | 48 min |
| Jun 28, 8:43 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Blaine, Brown, Custer, Logan, Loup, Rock and 1 more | 47 min |
| Jun 28, 8:50 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Yuma | 40 min |
| Jun 28, 8:56 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Chase, Frontier, Hayes, Lincoln, Perkins | 64 min |
| Jun 28, 8:59 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Custer, Lincoln, Logan | 46 min |
| Jun 28, 9:02 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Yuma | 43 min |
| Jun 28, 9:07 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | GLD | Yuma | 23 min |
| Jun 28, 9:15 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Kit Carson, Yuma | 45 min |
| Jun 28, 9:15 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Custer | 60 min |
| Jun 28, 9:17 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Cheyenne, Rawlins | 43 min |
| Jun 28, 9:23 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Rawlins | 52 min |
| Jun 28, 9:28 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Kit Carson, Yuma | 32 min |
| Jun 28, 9:29 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Blaine, Custer, Garfield, Loup | 46 min |
| Jun 28, 9:31 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Cheyenne, Decatur, Rawlins, Sherman, Thomas | 44 min |
| Jun 28, 9:34 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Frontier | 41 min |
| Jun 28, 9:37 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | GLD | Yuma | 38 min |
| Jun 28, 9:43 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Custer, Lincoln | 32 min |
| Jun 28, 9:51 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Sherman, Thomas, Wallace | 39 min |
| Jun 28, 9:56 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Yuma | 64 min |
| Jun 28, 10:01 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Kit Carson | 44 min |
| Jun 28, 10:03 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | GLD | Yuma | 27 min |
| Jun 28, 10:08 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | GLD | Kit Carson | 12 min |
| Jun 28, 10:08 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Decatur, Rawlins, Thomas | 52 min |
| Jun 28, 10:13 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Cheyenne, Rawlins | 32 min |
| Jun 28, 10:14 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Custer | 30 min |
| Jun 28, 10:15 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Frontier | 30 min |
| Jun 28, 10:21 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Furnas, Gosper, Harlan, Phelps | 39 min |
| Jun 28, 10:27 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | GLD | Kit Carson | 15 min |
| Jun 28, 10:28 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Sherman, Thomas | 62 min |
| Jun 28, 10:36 PM MDT | Flash Flood Warning | GLD | Kit Carson, Yuma | 3 hr |
| Jun 28, 10:40 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Logan, Wallace | 65 min |
| Jun 28, 10:44 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Kit Carson | 18 min |
| Jun 28, 10:47 PM MDT | Flash Flood Warning | GLD | Yuma | 3 hr |
| Jun 28, 11:06 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Greeley, Logan, Wallace, Wichita | 54 min |
| Jun 28, 11:07 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Kit Carson | 16 min |
| Jun 28, 11:16 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Kit Carson | 33 min |
| Jun 28, 11:38 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Gove, Logan, Sheridan, Thomas | 37 min |
| Jun 28, 11:53 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Cheyenne | 52 min |
| Jun 29, 12:39 AM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Cheyenne | 26 min |
| Jun 29, 1:54 AM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Grant, Haskell, Seward, Stevens | 51 min |
| Jun 29, 2:43 AM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Meade, Seward, Stevens | 62 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
N. Platte/Lee Bi, NE (KLBF), launched 00:00Z, 1.9 hours before the alert went out and 173 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
- 1615 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -71 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1591 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 54 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 4 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 133 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.5
- Supercell composite
- 7.9
SPC that day
Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 28, 6:13 PM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Kit Carson, Yuma | 2 hr |
| Jun 28, 6:27 PM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Phillips, Sedgwick | 63 min |
| Jun 28, 9:13 PM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Baca, Bent, Crowley, Kiowa, Lincoln, Otero and 1 more | 62 min |
| Jun 28, 9:38 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Baca, Bent, Crowley, El Paso, Kiowa, Las Animas and 4 more | 5 hr |
| Jun 29, 12:55 AM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Baca, Bent, Kiowa, Prowers | 2 hr |
| Jun 29, 2:52 PM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Logan, Morgan, Phillips, Sedgwick, Weld, Yuma | 53 min |
| Jun 28, 10:04 PM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Cheyenne, Logan, Rawlins, Sherman, Thomas, Wallace | 56 min |
| Jun 28, 8:44 PM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Chase, Dundy, Frontier, Hayes, Hitchcock, Lincoln and 1 more | 61 min |
| Jun 29, 4:36 PM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Burt, Cass, Cedar, Cuming, Dakota, Dixon and 6 more | 114 min |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Watches in Kansas, 2016Severe Thunderstorm Watches in Nebraska, 2016Severe Thunderstorm Watches in Colorado, 2016Every severe thunderstorm watch in 2016
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.