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Severe Thunderstorm Watch 324

June 13, 201713 counties in Kansas; 9 counties in Oklahoma; 34 counties in Texas

The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at Jun 13, 2017, 3:38 PM CDT for 13 counties in Kansas; 9 counties in Oklahoma; 34 counties in Texas. It was in force for 7 hr.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued: Jun 13, 2017, 3:38 PM CDT (20:38 UTC)
Expired: Jun 13, 2017, 11:00 PM CDT
In force: 7 hr
Issued by: the Storm Prediction Center
Largest hail expected: 4 in
Strongest gust expected: 65 kt

All 56 counties

Barber County, KS, Clark County, KS, Comanche County, KS, Edwards County, KS, Ford County, KS, Gray County, KS, Hodgeman County, KS, Kiowa County, KS, Meade County, KS, Pawnee County, KS, Pratt County, KS, Rush County, KS, Stafford County, KS, Beaver County, OK, Beckham County, OK, Ellis County, OK, Greer County, OK, Harmon County, OK, Harper County, OK, Roger Mills County, OK, Woods County, OK, Woodward County, OK, Armstrong County, TX, Briscoe County, TX, Carson County, TX, Castro County, TX, Childress County, TX, Collingsworth County, TX, Cottle County, TX, Crosby County, TX, Dickens County, TX, Donley County, TX, Floyd County, TX, Garza County, TX, Gray County, TX, Hale County, TX, Hall County, TX, Hansford County, TX, Hemphill County, TX, Hockley County, TX, Hutchinson County, TX, Kent County, TX, King County, TX, Lamb County, TX, Lipscomb County, TX, Lubbock County, TX, Lynn County, TX, Motley County, TX, Ochiltree County, TX, Potter County, TX, Randall County, TX, Roberts County, TX, Stonewall County, TX, Swisher County, TX, Terry County, TX, Wheeler County, TX

The radar

The Amarillo radar (KAMA), 153 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:41 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: 2%
Ten or more severe wind reports: 60%
One or more gusts of 65 knots or more: 50%
Ten or more severe hail reports: 95%
One or more hailstones of 2 inches or more: 70%
Six or more combined severe hail and wind reports: 95%

Warnings issued inside it

42 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 13, 4:09 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Edwards, Ford, Hodgeman	51 min
Jun 13, 4:13 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AMA	Carson, Gray, Hutchinson, Roberts	62 min
Jun 13, 4:47 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LUB	Briscoe	28 min
Jun 13, 4:52 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Hodgeman, Ness, Pawnee	53 min
Jun 13, 4:54 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AMA	Hemphill, Roberts	66 min
Jun 13, 4:56 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AMA	Armstrong, Carson, Donley, Gray	64 min
Jun 13, 5:09 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LUB	Briscoe	36 min
Jun 13, 5:22 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AMA	Beaver	68 min
Jun 13, 5:29 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AMA	Donley, Gray	61 min
Jun 13, 5:33 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Edwards, Hodgeman, Pawnee	27 min
Jun 13, 5:34 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Pawnee, Rush	28 min
Jun 13, 5:37 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LUB	Briscoe, Hall	38 min
Jun 13, 5:52 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AMA	Hemphill, Lipscomb	68 min
Jun 13, 6:03 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LUB	Hall	27 min
Jun 13, 6:05 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AMA	Beaver	35 min
Jun 13, 6:11 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AMA	Collingsworth, Donley, Gray, Wheeler	79 min
Jun 13, 6:18 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AMA	Hemphill, Lipscomb, Ochiltree, Roberts	42 min
Jun 13, 6:20 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Clark, Meade	55 min
Jun 13, 6:24 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Ellis	51 min
Jun 13, 6:33 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Ford	27 min
Jun 13, 6:41 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AMA	Beaver	55 min
Jun 13, 6:45 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Clark	28 min
Jun 13, 6:56 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Edwards, Ford, Hodgeman, Pawnee	49 min
Jun 13, 6:59 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AMA	Hemphill, Lipscomb, Roberts	54 min
Jun 13, 7:00 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Clark, Edwards, Ford, Kiowa	45 min
Jun 13, 7:13 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Ellis, Woodward	47 min
Jun 13, 7:20 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Beckham, Greer, Harmon	40 min
Jun 13, 7:24 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Harper	51 min
Jun 13, 7:41 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Edwards, Ford, Hodgeman, Pawnee, Rush	49 min
Jun 13, 7:41 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Ford, Gray, Hodgeman	20 min
Jun 13, 7:55 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Ford, Hodgeman	35 min
Jun 13, 7:59 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AMA	Collingsworth	61 min
Jun 13, 8:09 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Clark, Comanche, Ford, Kiowa	51 min
Jun 13, 8:18 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LUB	Crosby, Garza, Lynn	42 min
Jun 13, 8:22 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Pawnee, Rush	23 min
Jun 13, 8:25 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Ellis, Ness, Rush	35 min
Jun 13, 8:48 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Clark, Comanche, Kiowa	42 min
Jun 13, 8:56 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Ellis, Rush	34 min
Jun 13, 9:00 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LUB	Crosby, Dickens, Garza	29 min
Jun 13, 9:01 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AMA	Hemphill, Wheeler	59 min
Jun 13, 10:00 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Ellis, Roger Mills	45 min
Jun 13, 10:53 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AMA	Collingsworth, Wheeler	37 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

Amarillo Airport, TX (KAMA), launched 12:00Z, 8.6 hours before the alert went out and 153 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.

Skew-T log-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.

Mixed-layer CAPE: 0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL: 2131 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 16 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 134 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 132 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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SPC that day

Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 13, 3:49 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Barton, Ellis, Ellsworth, Jewell, Lincoln, Mitchell and 4 more	2 hr
Jun 13, 5:25 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	Barton, Clay, Cloud, Ellsworth, Jewell, Lincoln and 9 more	8 hr
Jun 13, 6:30 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Barber, Clark, Comanche, Edwards, Ford, Gray and 5 more	90 min
Jun 13, 3:14 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Beaver, Ellis, Roger Mills	3 hr
Jun 13, 2:09 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Borden, Crane, Dawson, Ector, Glasscock, Howard and 5 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.