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Severe Thunderstorm Watch 404
The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at Jun 19, 2019, 5:51 PM CDT for 5 counties in Kansas; 12 counties in Oklahoma. It was in force for 4 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 19, 2019, 5:51 PM CDT (22:51 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 19, 2019, 10:08 PM CDT
- In force
- 4 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
- Largest hail expected
- 3 in
- Strongest gust expected
- 60 kt
Counties Barber County, KS, Clark County, KS, Comanche County, KS, Kiowa County, KS, Pratt County, KS, Alfalfa County, OK, Blaine County, OK, Custer County, OK, Dewey County, OK, Ellis County, OK, Garfield County, OK, Harper County, OK, Kingfisher County, OK, Major County, OK, Roger Mills County, OK, Woods County, OK, Woodward County, OK
The radar
The Vance AFB radar (KVNX), 61 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:53 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
- 20%
- One or more gusts of 65 knots or more
- 10%
- 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
- 50%
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 19, 6:08 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Barber, Comanche, Kiowa, Pratt | 52 min |
| Jun 19, 6:18 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Clark | 57 min |
| Jun 19, 6:28 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Barber, Comanche, Pratt | 47 min |
| Jun 19, 6:41 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Clark, Comanche | 49 min |
| Jun 19, 6:49 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Harper, Woods | 56 min |
| Jun 19, 6:56 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Barber | 34 min |
| Jun 19, 7:12 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Alfalfa, Woods | 48 min |
| Jun 19, 7:37 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Harper, Woodward | 53 min |
| Jun 19, 8:21 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Dewey, Ellis, Woodward | 54 min |
| Jun 19, 9:09 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Custer, Dewey | 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 12:00Z, 10.9 hours before the alert went out and 139 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
- 2 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -236 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1061 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 26 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 19 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 85 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 18, 7:09 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Allen, Chautauqua, Cherokee, Cowley, Crawford, Elk and 8 more | 2 hr |
| Jun 18, 7:12 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Grant, Haskell, Meade, Morton, Seward, Stanton and 1 more | 63 min |
| Jun 19, 4:36 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Clark, Comanche, Finney, Ford, Gove, Gray and 7 more | 114 min |
| Jun 18, 8:08 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Alfalfa, Beckham, Blaine, Caddo, Canadian, Cleveland and 28 more | 2 hr |
| Jun 18, 8:12 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Nowata, Osage, Washington | 93 min |
| Jun 18, 9:29 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Alfalfa, Beckham, Blaine, Caddo, Canadian, Carter and 32 more | 6 hr |
| Jun 19, 12:45 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Alfalfa, Blaine, Caddo, Canadian, Carter, Cleveland and 18 more | 60 min |
| Jun 19, 1:25 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Atoka, Bryan, Choctaw, Coal, Hughes, Johnston and 8 more | 65 min |
| Jun 19, 1:43 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Atoka, Bryan, Choctaw, Coal, Haskell, Hughes and 13 more | 3 hr |
| Jun 19, 3:08 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Atoka, Bryan, Choctaw, Coal, Haskell, Hughes and 7 more | 67 min |
| Jun 19, 3:14 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Bryan, Choctaw, Love, McCurtain, Marshall | 3 hr |
| Jun 19, 3:58 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Bryan, Choctaw, Love, McCurtain, Marshall | 8 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.