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Tornado Watch 429

June 17, 202515 counties in Kansas; 24 counties in Oklahoma; 4 counties in Texas

The Storm Prediction Center issued this tornado watch at Jun 17, 2025, 3:40 PM CDT for 15 counties in Kansas; 24 counties in Oklahoma; 4 counties in Texas. It was in force for 6 hr.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued: Jun 17, 2025, 3:40 PM CDT (20:40 UTC)
Expired: Jun 17, 2025, 10:00 PM CDT
In force: 6 hr
Issued by: the Storm Prediction Center
Largest hail expected: 3 in
Strongest gust expected: 65 kt

All 43 counties

Allen County, KS, Butler County, KS, Chautauqua County, KS, Cowley County, KS, Elk County, KS, Greenwood County, KS, Harper County, KS, Kingman County, KS, Labette County, KS, Montgomery County, KS, Neosho County, KS, Sedgwick County, KS, Sumner County, KS, Wilson County, KS, Woodson County, KS, Alfalfa County, OK, Beaver County, OK, Beckham County, OK, Blaine County, OK, Custer County, OK, Dewey County, OK, Ellis County, OK, Garfield County, OK, Grant County, OK, Harper County, OK, Kay County, OK, Kingfisher County, OK, Logan County, OK, Major County, OK, Noble County, OK, Nowata County, OK, Osage County, OK, Pawnee County, OK, Payne County, OK, Roger Mills County, OK, Washington County, OK, Washita County, OK, Woods County, OK, Woodward County, OK, Hemphill County, TX, Lipscomb County, TX, Ochiltree County, TX, Roberts County, TX

The radar

The Vance AFB radar (KVNX), 34 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:41 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: 70%
One or more hailstones of 2 inches or more: 60%
Six or more combined severe hail and wind reports: 95%

Warnings issued inside it

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 17, 4:04 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Harper, Kingman	56 min
Jun 17, 4:21 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Sedgwick	54 min
Jun 17, 4:34 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Kingman, Reno, Sedgwick	41 min
Jun 17, 4:41 PM CDT	Tornado Warning Tornado observed	ICT	Harper, Kingman	23 min
Jun 17, 5:02 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	ICT	Harper, Kingman, Sumner	43 min
Jun 17, 5:07 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	ICT	Butler, Sedgwick	53 min
Jun 17, 5:22 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Harper, Kingman	38 min
Jun 17, 5:29 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning Considerable damage threat	ICT	Sedgwick	5 hr
Jun 17, 5:37 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AMA	Beaver, Texas	38 min
Jun 17, 5:39 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Destructive damage threat	ICT	Sumner	51 min
Jun 17, 5:55 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	ICT	Butler	65 min
Jun 17, 5:59 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Harper, Kingman	61 min
Jun 17, 6:13 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AMA	Beaver, Texas	47 min
Jun 17, 6:24 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	ICT	Cowley, Sumner	51 min
Jun 17, 6:37 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Butler, Greenwood	22 min
Jun 17, 6:48 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Kay	42 min
Jun 17, 6:49 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AMA	Beaver	41 min
Jun 17, 6:50 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Sedgwick, Sumner	41 min
Jun 17, 7:13 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Grant, Kay	47 min
Jun 17, 7:14 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	ICT	Cowley	46 min
Jun 17, 7:24 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Cowley, Sumner	36 min
Jun 17, 7:28 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AMA	Lipscomb	32 min
Jun 17, 7:44 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	TSA	Osage	46 min
Jun 17, 7:52 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Ellis, Roger Mills	38 min
Jun 17, 7:55 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	AMA	Hemphill, Lipscomb	29 min
Jun 17, 7:56 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	OUN	Kay	49 min
Jun 17, 8:00 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Chautauqua, Cowley	45 min
Jun 17, 8:04 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Dewey, Ellis, Woodward	41 min
Jun 17, 8:04 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	OUN	Ellis, Roger Mills	41 min
Jun 17, 8:08 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Kingman, Reno, Sedgwick	33 min
Jun 17, 8:17 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Woods, Woodward	43 min
Jun 17, 8:23 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	TSA	Osage	52 min
Jun 17, 8:24 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	OUN	Custer, Dewey, Ellis, Roger Mills	51 min
Jun 17, 8:29 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	OUN	Ellis, Roger Mills	16 min
Jun 17, 8:36 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Dewey, Ellis, Woodward	39 min
Jun 17, 8:40 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	ICT	Sedgwick	65 min
Jun 17, 8:40 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Kay	35 min
Jun 17, 8:44 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	TSA	Osage, Washington	46 min
Jun 17, 8:45 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Osage	45 min
Jun 17, 8:58 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	OUN	Blaine, Custer, Dewey, Ellis, Major, Roger Mills and 1 more	47 min
Jun 17, 8:58 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Destructive damage threat	TSA	Osage, Washington	47 min
Jun 17, 9:00 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Alfalfa, Woods	45 min
Jun 17, 9:23 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	TSA	Craig, Mayes, Nowata, Osage, Rogers, Washington	52 min
Jun 17, 9:25 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Harper, Kingman, Sumner	24 min
Jun 17, 9:28 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Butler, Cowley	22 min
Jun 17, 9:33 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AMA	Beaver, Texas	57 min
Jun 17, 9:39 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Alfalfa, Garfield, Grant, Kay, Noble	51 min
Jun 17, 9:41 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	OUN	Blaine, Caddo, Canadian, Custer, Dewey, Garfield and 2 more	49 min
Jun 17, 9:48 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	OUN	Garfield, Grant	27 min
Jun 17, 9:54 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	TSA	Craig, Nowata	51 min
Jun 17, 9:55 PM CDT	Tornado Warning Tornado observed	OUN	Garfield, Major	35 min
Jun 17, 9:56 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	OUN	Blaine, Canadian, Kingfisher	34 min
Jun 17, 9:57 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Cowley, Harper, Sumner	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, 8.7 hours before the alert went out and 161 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: 711 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -493 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 622 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 52 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 480 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 751 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 6.7

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

SPC that day

Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 16, 7:16 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Cheyenne, Decatur, Norton, Phillips, Rawlins	89 min
Jun 16, 7:56 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Atchison, Brown, Doniphan, Jackson, Jefferson, Leavenworth and 1 more	94 min
Jun 16, 9:25 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Decatur, Norton, Phillips	95 min
Jun 16, 10:47 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Barton, Chase, Clay, Cloud, Decatur, Dickinson and 35 more	118 min
Jun 16, 11:12 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	Barber, Barton, Brown, Butler, Chase, Clark and 52 more	8 hr
Jun 17, 2:05 AM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Barber, Comanche, Edwards, Kingman, Kiowa, McPherson and 5 more	115 min
Jun 17, 4:06 AM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Barber, Butler, Chautauqua, Cowley, Elk, Harper and 3 more	114 min
Jun 17, 1:27 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Barber, Butler, Chautauqua, Comanche, Cowley, Elk and 10 more	2 hr
Jun 17, 4:43 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Cowley, Harper, Sumner	92 min
Jun 17, 5:16 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Cheyenne, Greeley, Hamilton, Logan, Rawlins, Sherman and 4 more	89 min
Jun 17, 4:18 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	Creek, Garfield, Grant, Kay, Kingfisher, Lincoln and 13 more	6 hr
Jun 17, 7:52 AM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Creek, Hughes, McIntosh, Okfuskee, Okmulgee, Pittsburg	113 min
Jun 17, 5:44 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Harmon	2 hr
Jun 17, 6:05 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Beaver	55 min
Jun 17, 6:08 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	Greer, Harmon, Jackson, Kiowa, Tillman	5 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.