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Tornado Watch 455

July 6, 20239 counties in Colorado; 10 counties in Kansas

The Storm Prediction Center issued this tornado watch at Jul 6, 2023, 7:18 PM MDT for 9 counties in Colorado; 10 counties in Kansas. It was in force for 7 hr.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued: Jul 6, 2023, 7:18 PM MDT (01:18 UTC)
Expired: Jul 7, 2023, 2:00 AM MDT
In force: 7 hr
Issued by: the Storm Prediction Center
Largest hail expected: 3 in
Strongest gust expected: 60 kt

Counties Baca County, CO, Bent County, CO, Cheyenne County, CO, Crowley County, CO, El Paso County, CO, Kiowa County, CO, Kit Carson County, CO, Lincoln County, CO, Prowers County, CO, Grant County, KS, Greeley County, KS, Hamilton County, KS, Kearny County, KS, Logan County, KS, Scott County, KS, Sherman County, KS, Stanton County, KS, Wallace County, KS, Wichita County, KS

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: 50%
One or more gusts of 65 knots or more: 20%
Ten or more severe hail reports: 50%
One or more hailstones of 2 inches or more: 50%
Six or more combined severe hail and wind reports: 90%

Warnings issued inside it

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jul 6, 7:31 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BOU	Lincoln	44 min
Jul 6, 7:46 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Destructive damage threat	BOU	Lincoln	29 min
Jul 6, 7:53 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Cheyenne	67 min
Jul 6, 8:09 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	GLD	Cheyenne	51 min
Jul 6, 8:12 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Destructive damage threat	BOU	Lincoln	33 min
Jul 6, 8:12 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	PUB	Kiowa	63 min
Jul 6, 8:19 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Destructive damage threat	GLD	Cheyenne	41 min
Jul 6, 8:24 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BOU	Lincoln	36 min
Jul 6, 8:26 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Destructive damage threat	PUB	Kiowa	49 min
Jul 6, 8:57 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BOU	Elbert, Lincoln	33 min
Jul 6, 9:00 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BOU	Lincoln	30 min
Jul 6, 9:00 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Destructive damage threat	PUB	Bent, Kiowa, Prowers	60 min
Jul 6, 9:08 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	GLD	Cheyenne	67 min
Jul 6, 9:28 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Destructive damage threat	BOU	Lincoln	32 min
Jul 6, 9:30 PM MDT	Flash Flood Warning	PUB	Bent, Kiowa, Prowers	5 hr
Jul 6, 9:41 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Destructive damage threat	PUB	Kiowa, Prowers	49 min
Jul 6, 9:42 PM MDT	Tornado Warning	PUB	Bent, Prowers	33 min
Jul 6, 9:50 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Destructive damage threat	BOU	Lincoln	40 min
Jul 6, 9:57 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	PUB	Bent, Kiowa, Prowers	48 min
Jul 6, 10:00 PM MDT	Tornado Warning	PUB	Bent, Prowers	30 min
Jul 6, 10:06 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	PUB	Bent, Kiowa	39 min
Jul 6, 10:23 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Hamilton	52 min
Jul 6, 10:25 PM MDT	Tornado Warning	PUB	Prowers	35 min
Jul 6, 10:28 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Greeley	32 min
Jul 6, 10:30 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	PUB	Kiowa, Prowers	30 min
Jul 6, 10:39 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	PUB	Prowers	51 min
Jul 6, 10:41 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Sherman, Wallace	49 min
Jul 6, 10:43 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	PUB	Bent, Kiowa	47 min
Jul 6, 10:46 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Kearny	44 min
Jul 6, 11:03 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	PUB	Prowers	27 min
Jul 6, 11:07 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	PUB	Bent	23 min
Jul 6, 11:08 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	DDC	Hamilton, Stanton	52 min
Jul 6, 11:14 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	DDC	Hamilton, Kearny	46 min
Jul 6, 11:14 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Logan, Sherman, Thomas, Wallace	46 min
Jul 6, 11:26 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	Prowers	34 min
Jul 6, 11:29 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Destructive damage threat	PUB	Bent, Prowers	31 min
Jul 6, 11:40 PM MDT	Flash Flood Warning	DDC	Hamilton, Kearny	3 hr
Jul 6, 11:46 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	DDC	Hamilton, Stanton	44 min
Jul 6, 11:57 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	PUB	Bent, Prowers	33 min
Jul 7, 12:20 AM MDT	Tornado Warning	PUB	Baca, Prowers	40 min
Jul 7, 12:25 AM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Grant, Hamilton, Stanton	35 min
Jul 7, 12:43 AM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	PUB	Baca, Prowers	62 min
Jul 7, 12:45 AM MDT	Tornado Warning	PUB	Baca, Prowers	30 min
Jul 7, 1:02 AM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Grant, Haskell, Stanton, Stevens	43 min
Jul 7, 1:18 AM MDT	Tornado Warning	PUB	Baca	27 min
Jul 7, 1:22 AM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	DDC	Morton, Stanton	38 min
Jul 7, 1:34 AM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	DDC	Grant, Seward, Stevens	41 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, 1.3 hours before the alert went out and 233 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: 612 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -104 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1047 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 58 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -17 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 183 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: -0.0
Supercell composite: -0.4

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

SPC that day

Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jul 6, 8:58 PM MDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Baca, Bent, Prowers	2 hr
Jul 6, 10:41 PM MDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Baca, Bent, Prowers	2 hr
Jul 7, 1:08 PM MDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Las Animas	3 hr
Jul 7, 1:51 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	Baca, Crowley, Custer, El Paso, Fremont, Huerfano and 4 more	6 hr
Jul 6, 10:55 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	Clark, Finney, Ford, Gray, Haskell, Hodgeman and 6 more	6 hr
Jul 7, 1:41 AM MDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Clark, Grant, Haskell, Meade, Morton, Seward and 2 more	2 hr
Jul 7, 5:24 PM MDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Comanche	2 hr
Jul 7, 5:54 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	Barber, Clark, Comanche, Meade	6 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.