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Severe Thunderstorm Watch 312
The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at Jun 29, 2016, 7:20 PM MDT for 5 counties in Colorado; 8 counties in Kansas; Dundy County, Nebraska. It was in force for 5 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 29, 2016, 7:20 PM MDT (01:20 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 29, 2016, 11:52 PM 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, Kiowa County, CO, Kit Carson County, CO, Prowers County, CO, Yuma County, CO, Cheyenne County, KS, Greeley County, KS, Hamilton County, KS, Kearny County, KS, Logan County, KS, Sherman County, KS, Wallace County, KS, Wichita County, KS, Dundy County, NE
The radar
The Goodland radar (KGLD), 57 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:19 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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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
- 60%
Warnings issued inside it
5 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 29, 7:27 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Cheyenne, Kit Carson | 15 min |
| Jun 29, 7:49 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Kit Carson, Yuma | 41 min |
| Jun 29, 8:02 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Kit Carson | 43 min |
| Jun 29, 9:39 PM MDT | Flash Flood Warning | GLD | Cheyenne | 3 hr |
| Jun 29, 10:08 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | Bent, Prowers | 37 min |
The nearest sounding before it
Denver, CO (KDEN), launched 00:00Z, 1.3 hours before the alert went out and 99 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
- 24 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -154 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 2873 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 17 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -4 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 87 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 29, 7:06 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Phillips, Sedgwick | 7 hr |
| Jun 30, 3:48 PM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Bent, Cheyenne, Crowley, Kiowa, Kit Carson, Lincoln and 5 more | 2 hr |
| Jun 30, 3:55 PM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Allen, Anderson, Bourbon, Chautauqua, Cherokee, Cowley and 9 more | 3 hr |
| Jun 29, 6:32 PM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Cherry | 118 min |
| Jun 29, 8:31 PM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Blaine, Brown, Cherry, Custer, Garfield, Hooker and 6 more | 89 min |
| Jun 29, 9:22 PM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Adams, Antelope, Boone, Buffalo, Clay, Frontier and 13 more | 83 min |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Watches in Kansas, 2016Severe Thunderstorm Watches in Colorado, 2016Severe Thunderstorm Watches in Nebraska, 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.