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Severe Thunderstorm Watch 371
The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at Jun 26, 2017, 3:09 PM MDT for 4 counties in Colorado; 29 counties in Kansas. It was in force for 6 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 26, 2017, 3:09 PM MDT (21:09 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 26, 2017, 9:00 PM MDT
- In force
- 6 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
- Largest hail expected
- 2.5 in
- Strongest gust expected
- 60 kt
All 33 counties
Cheyenne County, CO, Kiowa County, CO, Kit Carson County, CO, Yuma County, CO, Barton County, KS, Cheyenne County, KS, Decatur County, KS, Ellis County, KS, Ellsworth County, KS, Gove County, KS, Graham County, KS, Greeley County, KS, Lane County, KS, Lincoln County, KS, Logan County, KS, Mitchell County, KS, Ness County, KS, Norton County, KS, Osborne County, KS, Phillips County, KS, Rawlins County, KS, Rice County, KS, Rooks County, KS, Rush County, KS, Russell County, KS, Scott County, KS, Sheridan County, KS, Sherman County, KS, Smith County, KS, Thomas County, KS, Trego County, KS, Wallace County, KS, Wichita County, KS
The radar
The Goodland radar (KGLD), 73 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:12 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
- 20%
- One or more gusts of 65 knots or more
- 5%
- 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
15 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 26, 3:15 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Rawlins | 45 min |
| Jun 26, 3:30 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Decatur, Sheridan | 60 min |
| Jun 26, 3:36 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Yuma | 42 min |
| Jun 26, 3:40 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Cheyenne | 35 min |
| Jun 26, 3:42 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | Kiowa | 48 min |
| Jun 26, 4:09 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Sheridan | 51 min |
| Jun 26, 4:50 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Logan, Sheridan, Thomas | 40 min |
| Jun 26, 5:02 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | GLD | Thomas | 29 min |
| Jun 26, 5:09 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Gove, Sheridan | 33 min |
| Jun 26, 5:18 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | Bent, Kiowa | 23 min |
| Jun 26, 5:23 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | GLD | Gove, Logan, Thomas | 37 min |
| Jun 26, 5:51 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | GLD | Gove, Logan | 24 min |
| Jun 26, 6:12 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Scott | 48 min |
| Jun 26, 6:15 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | GLD | Logan | 19 min |
| Jun 26, 7:10 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Greeley, Wichita | 50 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 12:00Z, 9.2 hours before the alert went out and 187 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
- 186 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -80 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 634 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 52 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 158 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 156 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.4
SPC that day
Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 26, 1:03 PM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Cheyenne, Kit Carson, Phillips, Yuma | 87 min |
| Jun 26, 5:40 PM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Baca, Bent, Costilla, Crowley, Custer, Huerfano and 3 more | 2 hr |
| Jun 26, 2:48 PM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Allen, Butler, Chase, Cherokee, Crawford, Elk and 8 more | 87 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.