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Tornado Watch 369
The Storm Prediction Center issued this tornado watch at Jun 5, 2025, 1:00 PM MDT for 4 counties in Colorado; 11 counties in Kansas. It was in force for 7 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 5, 2025, 1:00 PM MDT (19:00 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 5, 2025, 8:00 PM MDT
- In force
- 7 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
- Largest hail expected
- 2.5 in
- Strongest gust expected
- 65 kt
Counties Baca County, CO, Bent County, CO, Kiowa County, CO, Prowers County, CO, Finney County, KS, Grant County, KS, Gray County, KS, Hamilton County, KS, Haskell County, KS, Kearny County, KS, Meade County, KS, Morton County, KS, Seward County, KS, Stanton County, KS, Stevens County, KS
The radar
The Dodge City radar (KDDC), 126 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:03 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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What SPC expected
The probabilities SPC published with the watch, for the watch area over its life.
- Two or more tornadoes
- 50%
- One or more EF2 to EF5 tornadoes
- 20%
- Ten or more severe wind reports
- 50%
- One or more gusts of 65 knots or more
- 40%
- 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
- 90%
Warnings issued inside it
17 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 5, 1:20 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | Baca, Prowers | 40 min |
| Jun 5, 1:52 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | Baca, Prowers | 38 min |
| Jun 5, 1:52 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Stanton | 68 min |
| Jun 5, 2:07 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Stanton | 38 min |
| Jun 5, 2:54 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Grant, Morton, Stanton, Stevens | 66 min |
| Jun 5, 3:00 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | DDC | Stanton | 30 min |
| Jun 5, 3:25 PM MDT | Flash Flood Warning | DDC | Stanton | 3 hr |
| Jun 5, 3:26 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | DDC | Grant, Morton, Stanton, Stevens | 34 min |
| Jun 5, 3:45 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Grant, Morton, Stevens | 46 min |
| Jun 5, 4:37 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Grant, Haskell, Seward, Stevens | 38 min |
| Jun 5, 5:37 PM MDT | Flash Flood Warning | DDC | Grant, Haskell, Stevens | 4 hr |
| Jun 5, 5:38 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | Baca, Prowers | 22 min |
| Jun 5, 5:39 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Stanton | 51 min |
| Jun 5, 5:49 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Gray, Haskell, Meade, Seward | 56 min |
| Jun 5, 6:41 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Grant, Morton, Stanton, Stevens | 64 min |
| Jun 5, 7:08 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | Kiowa | 52 min |
| Jun 5, 7:42 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | Baca, Las Animas | 48 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, 7.0 hours before the alert went out and 132 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 683 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 45 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 61 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 89 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 5, 12:20 PM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Baca, Prowers | 115 min |
| Jun 5, 12:30 PM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Adams, Arapahoe, Broomfield, Crowley, Denver, Douglas and 10 more | 2 hr |
| Jun 5, 1:39 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Adams, Arapahoe, Cheyenne, Crowley, Denver, Douglas and 12 more | 8 hr |
| Jun 5, 2:33 PM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Grant, Haskell, Stanton | 87 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.