Alert archive / Kansas / Severe Thunderstorm Watches in 2018
Severe Thunderstorm Watch 209
The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at Jun 23, 2018, 9:52 PM CDT for 21 counties in Kansas; 19 counties in Oklahoma; Hemphill County, Lipscomb County, Ochiltree County, Texas. It was in force for 7 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 23, 2018, 9:52 PM CDT (02:52 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 24, 2018, 5:00 AM CDT
- In force
- 7 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
- Largest hail expected
- 1.5 in
- Strongest gust expected
- 65 kt
All 43 counties
Barber County, KS, Clark County, KS, Comanche County, KS, Edwards County, KS, Finney County, KS, Ford County, KS, Grant County, KS, Gray County, KS, Harper County, KS, Haskell County, KS, Hodgeman County, KS, Kingman County, KS, Kiowa County, KS, Meade County, KS, Morton County, KS, Ness County, KS, Pratt County, KS, Seward County, KS, Stanton County, KS, Stevens County, KS, Sumner County, KS, Alfalfa County, OK, Beaver County, OK, Blaine County, OK, Custer County, OK, Dewey County, OK, Ellis County, OK, Garfield County, OK, Grant County, OK, Harper County, OK, Kay County, OK, Kingfisher County, OK, Logan County, OK, Major County, OK, Noble County, OK, Payne County, OK, Roger Mills County, OK, Texas County, OK, Woods County, OK, Woodward County, OK, Hemphill County, TX, Lipscomb County, TX, Ochiltree County, TX
The radar
The Dodge City radar (KDDC), 67 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 02:51 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
- 70%
- One or more gusts of 65 knots or more
- 50%
- Ten or more severe hail reports
- 20%
- One or more hailstones of 2 inches or more
- 20%
- Six or more combined severe hail and wind reports
- 90%
Warnings issued inside it
20 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 23, 9:55 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Finney, Ford, Gray, Haskell, Hodgeman, Lane and 1 more | 50 min |
| Jun 23, 10:27 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Grant, Stanton | 48 min |
| Jun 23, 10:42 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Clark, Edwards, Ford, Gray, Hodgeman, Kiowa and 3 more | 48 min |
| Jun 23, 11:08 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Grant, Haskell | 37 min |
| Jun 23, 11:16 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Barber, Clark, Comanche, Edwards, Ford, Hodgeman and 4 more | 59 min |
| Jun 24, 12:06 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Lincoln, Payne | 39 min |
| Jun 24, 12:14 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Barber, Clark, Comanche, Edwards, Kiowa, Pratt and 1 more | 76 min |
| Jun 24, 12:42 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Harper, Woods, Woodward | 48 min |
| Jun 24, 1:13 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Alfalfa, Woods, Woodward | 47 min |
| Jun 24, 1:22 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Noble | 38 min |
| Jun 24, 1:28 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Barber | 32 min |
| Jun 24, 1:32 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Noble, Payne | 28 min |
| Jun 24, 1:37 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Harper | 53 min |
| Jun 24, 1:49 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Alfalfa, Garfield, Grant, Major, Woods | 41 min |
| Jun 24, 2:24 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Alfalfa, Garfield, Grant, Kay, Major, Noble | 51 min |
| Jun 24, 2:50 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Blaine, Garfield, Kingfisher, Major | 40 min |
| Jun 24, 3:06 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Garfield, Grant, Kay, Kingfisher, Logan, Noble and 1 more | 54 min |
| Jun 24, 3:29 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Blaine, Kingfisher, Logan | 26 min |
| Jun 24, 3:52 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Lincoln, Logan, Noble, Payne | 38 min |
| Jun 24, 4:09 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Canadian, Cleveland, Lincoln, Logan, Oklahoma, Pottawatomie | 51 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, 2.9 hours before the alert went out and 67 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
- 1196 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -50 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1628 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 31 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 36 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 111 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.1
- Supercell composite
- 1.9
SPC that day
Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 23, 9:32 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Barber, Barton, Clark, Comanche, Edwards, Finney and 26 more | 118 min |
| Jun 24, 1:25 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Barber, Comanche, Harper, Kiowa, Pratt | 95 min |
| Jun 24, 2:16 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Cheyenne, Logan, Rawlins, Sherman, Thomas, Wallace | 59 min |
| Jun 24, 7:17 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Clark, Comanche, Grant, Haskell, Meade, Morton and 2 more | 118 min |
| Jun 24, 5:31 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Greeley, Logan, Sherman, Wallace | 89 min |
| Jun 23, 7:50 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Beckham, Blaine, Caddo, Canadian, Carter, Cleveland and 24 more | 55 min |
| Jun 24, 3:23 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Canadian, Cherokee, Creek, Haskell, Hughes, Latimer and 19 more | 6 hr |
| Jun 24, 5:11 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Adair, Cherokee, Cleveland, Creek, Haskell, Hughes and 13 more | 79 min |
| Jun 24, 5:28 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Adair, McCurtain, Pushmataha | 4 hr |
| Jun 24, 7:37 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | McCurtain | 113 min |
| Jun 24, 12:57 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Caddo, Canadian, Carter, Cleveland, Comanche, Cotton and 15 more | 93 min |
| Jun 24, 2:40 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Atoka, Bryan, Carter, Choctaw, Coal, Garvin and 15 more | 5 hr |
| Jun 24, 3:04 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Cimarron | 86 min |
| Jun 24, 4:18 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Bryan, Choctaw, LeFlore, McCurtain, Pushmataha | 117 min |
| Jun 24, 4:53 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | McCurtain | 6 hr |
| Jun 23, 8:33 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Coke, Fisher, Haskell, Jones, Mitchell, Nolan and 4 more | 117 min |
| Jun 24, 1:53 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Bosque, Comanche, Dallas, Eastland, Ellis, Erath and 12 more | 67 min |
| Jun 24, 5:50 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Fisher, Glasscock, Howard, Kent, Mitchell, Reagan and 4 more | 115 min |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Watches in Kansas, 2018Severe Thunderstorm Watches in Oklahoma, 2018Severe Thunderstorm Watches in Texas, 2018Every severe thunderstorm watch in 2018
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.