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Tornado Watch 327

June 17, 20237 counties in Kansas; 19 counties in Oklahoma; 16 counties in Texas

The Storm Prediction Center issued this tornado watch at Jun 17, 2023, 4:34 PM CDT for 7 counties in Kansas; 19 counties in Oklahoma; 16 counties in Texas. It was in force for 6 hr.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued: Jun 17, 2023, 4:34 PM CDT (21:34 UTC)
Expired: Jun 17, 2023, 11:00 PM CDT
In force: 6 hr
Issued by: the Storm Prediction Center
Largest hail expected: 3.5 in
Strongest gust expected: 80 kt

All 42 counties

Barber County, KS, Clark County, KS, Comanche County, KS, Meade County, KS, Morton County, KS, Seward County, KS, Stevens County, KS, Alfalfa County, OK, Beaver County, OK, Beckham County, OK, Blaine County, OK, Caddo County, OK, Cimarron County, OK, Comanche County, OK, Custer County, OK, Dewey County, OK, Ellis County, OK, Greer County, OK, Harper County, OK, Kiowa County, OK, Major County, OK, Roger Mills County, OK, Texas County, OK, Washita County, OK, Woods County, OK, Woodward County, OK, Armstrong County, TX, Carson County, TX, Collingsworth County, TX, Donley County, TX, Gray County, TX, Hansford County, TX, Hemphill County, TX, Hutchinson County, TX, Lipscomb County, TX, Moore County, TX, Ochiltree County, TX, Potter County, TX, Randall County, TX, Roberts County, TX, Sherman County, TX, Wheeler County, TX

The radar

The Dodge City radar (KDDC), 148 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:37 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: 40%
One or more EF2 to EF5 tornadoes: 20%
Ten or more severe wind reports: 70%
One or more gusts of 65 knots or more: 70%
Ten or more severe hail reports: 60%
One or more hailstones of 2 inches or more: 60%
Six or more combined severe hail and wind reports: 95%

Warnings issued inside it

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 17, 4:48 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AMA	Cimarron	57 min
Jun 17, 5:02 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	AMA	Cimarron	43 min
Jun 17, 5:15 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AMA	Beaver, Texas	60 min
Jun 17, 5:20 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	AMA	Beaver, Texas	40 min
Jun 17, 5:34 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	DDC	Seward	41 min
Jun 17, 5:50 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AMA	Cimarron, Texas	85 min
Jun 17, 5:52 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	AMA	Beaver	38 min
Jun 17, 5:54 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Hamilton, Morton, Stanton	66 min
Jun 17, 5:58 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	AMA	Beaver, Texas	62 min
Jun 17, 5:58 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AMA	Hemphill, Hutchinson, Roberts	62 min
Jun 17, 6:05 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	DDC	Haskell, Meade, Seward	40 min
Jun 17, 6:19 PM CDT	Tornado Warning Tornado observed	AMA	Beaver	56 min
Jun 17, 6:27 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	DDC	Grant, Hamilton, Kearny, Morton, Stanton, Stevens	63 min
Jun 17, 6:30 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	DDC	Gray, Haskell, Seward	45 min
Jun 17, 6:38 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Meade, Seward	52 min
Jun 17, 6:40 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AMA	Hemphill, Lipscomb, Roberts	65 min
Jun 17, 6:44 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	DDC	Gray, Haskell, Meade	46 min
Jun 17, 6:53 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	AMA	Beaver, Texas	67 min
Jun 17, 6:56 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	DDC	Finney, Grant, Haskell, Kearny, Seward, Stevens	64 min
Jun 17, 7:07 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	AMA	Beaver	53 min
Jun 17, 7:12 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	AMA	Beaver, Texas	3 hr
Jun 17, 7:18 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	AMA	Beaver, Texas	87 min
Jun 17, 7:23 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Destructive damage threat	DDC	Finney, Gray, Haskell, Meade, Seward	52 min
Jun 17, 7:24 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	OUN	Ellis, Harper	51 min
Jun 17, 7:38 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Ellis, Roger Mills	38 min
Jun 17, 7:44 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Comanche, Kiowa, Tillman	46 min
Jun 17, 7:50 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	DDC	Clark, Finney, Ford, Gray, Hodgeman, Meade	55 min
Jun 17, 7:55 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AMA	Hansford, Hutchinson, Ochiltree, Roberts	50 min
Jun 17, 8:04 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	OUN	Ellis, Harper, Woods, Woodward	41 min
Jun 17, 8:05 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	OUN	Ellis, Harper, Woods, Woodward	40 min
Jun 17, 8:07 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Comanche, Cotton, Tillman	38 min
Jun 17, 8:09 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	OUN	Harper, Woodward	25 min
Jun 17, 8:28 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Comanche, Kiowa	32 min
Jun 17, 8:29 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	OUN	Harper, Woods, Woodward	46 min
Jun 17, 8:31 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	OUN	Ellis, Roger Mills, Woodward	44 min
Jun 17, 8:40 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	AMA	Carson, Gray, Hemphill, Hutchinson, Lipscomb, Ochiltree and 2 more	80 min
Jun 17, 8:44 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Comanche, Cotton, Jefferson, Stephens	46 min
Jun 17, 8:46 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	OUN	Alfalfa, Blaine, Dewey, Major, Woods, Woodward	44 min
Jun 17, 9:11 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	OUN	Beckham, Blaine, Custer, Dewey, Ellis, Roger Mills and 1 more	49 min
Jun 17, 9:17 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Dewey, Ellis, Roger Mills, Woodward	43 min
Jun 17, 9:25 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Barber	35 min
Jun 17, 9:30 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	OUN	Alfalfa, Blaine, Garfield, Grant, Kingfisher, Major and 1 more	45 min
Jun 17, 9:50 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	OUN	Blaine, Caddo, Canadian, Custer, Dewey, Garfield and 4 more	40 min
Jun 17, 9:55 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AMA	Hemphill, Wheeler	31 min
Jun 17, 9:56 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Beckham, Custer, Dewey, Ellis, Roger Mills, Washita	49 min
Jun 17, 10:19 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	OUN	Blaine, Caddo, Canadian, Cleveland, Garfield, Grady and 7 more	41 min
Jun 17, 10:26 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	OUN	Beckham, Custer, Dewey, Roger Mills, Washita	49 min
Jun 17, 10:59 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	OUN	Beckham, Greer, Harmon, Jackson, Kiowa, Washita	46 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, 9.6 hours before the alert went out and 148 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: 0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL: 2514 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 32 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 141 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 173 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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SPC that day

Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 16, 7:27 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	Edwards, Ellis, Finney, Ford, Gove, Graham and 23 more	6 hr
Jun 16, 9:37 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Finney, Gove, Grant, Greeley, Hamilton, Kearny and 8 more	113 min
Jun 17, 3:51 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Clark, Grant, Haskell, Meade, Morton, Seward and 2 more	114 min
Jun 17, 4:45 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	Edwards, Ellis, Finney, Ford, Gove, Graham and 23 more	6 hr
Jun 17, 5:59 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Clark, Comanche, Edwards, Finney, Ford, Grant and 20 more	2 hr
Jun 17, 2:56 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	Cotton, Harmon, Jackson, Tillman	7 hr
Jun 17, 5:29 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Alfalfa, Beaver, Blaine, Dewey, Ellis, Harper and 4 more	2 hr
Jun 16, 7:30 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Bandera, Bell, Blanco, Burnet, Comal, Coryell and 9 more	2 hr
Jun 17, 2:30 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Archer, Baylor, Brown, Callahan, Coke, Coleman and 34 more	2 hr
Jun 17, 4:51 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Archer, Bosque, Brown, Callahan, Clay, Coleman and 16 more	114 min
Jun 17, 5:13 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Cass, Gregg, Harrison, Marion, Panola, Shelby and 1 more	2 hr
Jun 17, 6:52 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Brown, Callahan, Coleman, Comanche, Eastland, Erath and 8 more	113 min

Nearby

Tornado Watches in Oklahoma, 2023 Tornado Watches in Texas, 2023 Tornado Watches in Kansas, 2023 Every tornado watch in 2023

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.