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Tornado Watch 395

June 18, 201946 counties in Kansas

The Storm Prediction Center issued this tornado watch at Jun 18, 2019, 2:20 PM CDT for 46 counties in Kansas. It was in force for 7 hr.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued: Jun 18, 2019, 2:20 PM CDT (19:20 UTC)
Expired: Jun 18, 2019, 9:22 PM CDT
In force: 7 hr
Issued by: the Storm Prediction Center
Largest hail expected: 1.5 in
Strongest gust expected: 60 kt

All 46 counties

Allen County, KS, Anderson County, KS, Barber County, KS, Barton County, KS, Butler County, KS, Chase County, KS, Chautauqua County, KS, Clark County, KS, Coffey County, KS, Comanche County, KS, Cowley County, KS, Dickinson County, KS, Douglas County, KS, Edwards County, KS, Elk County, KS, Ford County, KS, Franklin County, KS, Geary County, KS, Greenwood County, KS, Harper County, KS, Harvey County, KS, Hodgeman County, KS, Jackson County, KS, Jefferson County, KS, Kingman County, KS, Kiowa County, KS, Lyon County, KS, Marion County, KS, McPherson County, KS, Montgomery County, KS, Morris County, KS, Osage County, KS, Pawnee County, KS, Pottawatomie County, KS, Pratt County, KS, Reno County, KS, Rice County, KS, Riley County, KS, Saline County, KS, Sedgwick County, KS, Shawnee County, KS, Stafford County, KS, Sumner County, KS, Wabaunsee County, KS, Wilson County, KS, Woodson County, KS

The radar

The Wichita radar (KICT), 34 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:21 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: 60%
One or more EF2 to EF5 tornadoes: 10%
Ten or more severe wind reports: 40%
One or more gusts of 65 knots or more: 10%
Ten or more severe hail reports: 40%
One or more hailstones of 2 inches or more: 10%
Six or more combined severe hail and wind reports: 80%

Warnings issued inside it

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 18, 2:24 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Edwards, Hodgeman, Pawnee	36 min
Jun 18, 2:34 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TOP	Geary, Morris, Pottawatomie, Riley, Wabaunsee	41 min
Jun 18, 2:41 PM CDT	Tornado Warning Tornado observed	DDC	Edwards, Pawnee	34 min
Jun 18, 2:49 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Harvey, Reno, Sedgwick	56 min
Jun 18, 2:51 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Pratt, Stafford	54 min
Jun 18, 3:09 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Edwards, Pawnee, Stafford	51 min
Jun 18, 3:10 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TOP	Pottawatomie, Riley, Wabaunsee	50 min
Jun 18, 3:27 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	ICT	Kingman, Reno	48 min
Jun 18, 3:36 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Butler, Sedgwick	54 min
Jun 18, 3:43 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TOP	Jackson, Osage, Pottawatomie, Shawnee, Wabaunsee	47 min
Jun 18, 3:45 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Butler, Harvey, Marion, Sedgwick	38 min
Jun 18, 3:50 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Hodgeman	40 min
Jun 18, 4:13 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Kingman, Reno, Sedgwick	62 min
Jun 18, 4:19 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TOP	Jackson, Jefferson, Shawnee	23 min
Jun 18, 4:25 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Butler, Sedgwick	65 min
Jun 18, 4:27 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Sedgwick	29 min
Jun 18, 4:40 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Ford, Hodgeman	37 min
Jun 18, 5:03 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Butler, Sedgwick	27 min
Jun 18, 5:11 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Sedgwick	28 min
Jun 18, 5:14 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Kingman, Sedgwick, Sumner	61 min
Jun 18, 5:21 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Butler	54 min
Jun 18, 5:25 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	ICT	Butler, Sedgwick	6 hr
Jun 18, 6:06 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Elk, Greenwood	69 min
Jun 18, 6:11 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Butler	19 min
Jun 18, 6:13 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Cowley, Sumner	62 min
Jun 18, 6:19 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Harper, Kingman, Sedgwick, Sumner	56 min
Jun 18, 6:55 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Cowley	30 min
Jun 18, 7:54 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Chautauqua, Montgomery	27 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

Topeka, KS (KTOP), launched 12:00Z, 7.3 hours before the alert went out and 197 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: 60 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -89 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 923 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 11 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 16 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 8 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

SPC that day

Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 18, 1:17 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Barber, Barton, Butler, Chase, Clark, Clay and 35 more	118 min
Jun 18, 2:22 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Finney, Grant, Gray, Hamilton, Haskell, Kearny and 5 more	83 min
Jun 18, 4:16 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Allen, Anderson, Barber, Butler, Chase, Chautauqua and 38 more	119 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.