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Severe Thunderstorm Watch 159
The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at Jun 7, 2018, 2:25 AM CDT for 28 counties in Kansas; Alfalfa County, Grant County, Woods County, Oklahoma. It was in force for 5 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 7, 2018, 2:25 AM CDT (07:25 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 7, 2018, 7:00 AM CDT
- In force
- 5 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
- Largest hail expected
- 1.5 in
- Strongest gust expected
- 65 kt
All 31 counties
Barber County, KS, Barton County, KS, Comanche County, KS, Edwards County, KS, Ellis County, KS, Ellsworth County, KS, Harper County, KS, Harvey County, KS, Jewell County, KS, Kingman County, KS, Kiowa County, KS, Lincoln County, KS, McPherson County, KS, Mitchell County, KS, Osborne County, KS, Pawnee County, KS, Phillips County, KS, Pratt County, KS, Reno County, KS, Rice County, KS, Rooks County, KS, Rush County, KS, Russell County, KS, Saline County, KS, Sedgwick County, KS, Smith County, KS, Stafford County, KS, Sumner County, KS, Alfalfa County, OK, Grant County, OK, Woods County, OK
The radar
The Wichita radar (KICT), 121 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 07:28 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
- 5%
- One or more EF2 to EF5 tornadoes
- 2%
- Ten or more severe wind reports
- 50%
- One or more gusts of 65 knots or more
- 30%
- Ten or more severe hail reports
- 40%
- One or more hailstones of 2 inches or more
- 20%
- Six or more combined severe hail and wind reports
- 80%
Warnings issued inside it
10 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 7, 2:26 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Clark, Comanche, Ford, Kiowa | 49 min |
| Jun 7, 2:33 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Edwards, Ford, Hodgeman, Kiowa, Ness, Pawnee and 1 more | 42 min |
| Jun 7, 2:45 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Barber, Comanche, Edwards, Kiowa, Pawnee, Pratt and 2 more | 45 min |
| Jun 7, 2:49 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Osborne, Phillips, Rooks, Smith | 41 min |
| Jun 7, 3:05 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Alfalfa, Woods | 25 min |
| Jun 7, 3:23 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Kingman, Reno | 52 min |
| Jun 7, 3:26 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Barber, Pratt | 49 min |
| Jun 7, 4:20 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Alfalfa, Woods | 25 min |
| Jun 7, 4:43 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Alfalfa, Major | 32 min |
| Jun 7, 6:11 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Garfield, Grant | 34 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 00:00Z, 7.4 hours before the alert went out and 147 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
- 1571 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -94 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 2532 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 47 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 30 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 169 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 4.1
SPC that day
Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 6, 7:59 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Cheyenne, Rawlins | 2 hr |
| Jun 6, 8:45 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Brown, Marshall, Nemaha, Republic, Washington | 90 min |
| Jun 6, 11:58 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Cheyenne, Decatur, Gove, Graham, Jewell, Mitchell and 10 more | 2 hr |
| Jun 7, 1:58 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Barber, Barton, Clark, Cloud, Comanche, Edwards and 31 more | 92 min |
| Jun 7, 4:35 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Barber, Cloud, Comanche, Ellsworth, Harper, Harvey and 17 more | 85 min |
| Jun 7, 8:42 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Bryan, Carter, Cleveland, Coal, Garvin, Grady and 14 more | 2 hr |
| Jun 7, 3:10 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Beckham, Ellis, Greer, Harmon, Jackson, Roger Mills | 95 min |
| Jun 7, 3:28 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Beckham, Custer, Dewey, Ellis, Greer, Harmon and 6 more | 5 hr |
| Jun 7, 6:17 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Beckham, Custer, Dewey, Ellis, Greer, Harmon and 6 more | 118 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.