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Severe Thunderstorm Watch 367

June 21, 20264 counties in Colorado; 33 counties in Kansas

The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at Jun 21, 2026, 5:07 PM MDT for 4 counties in Colorado; 33 counties in Kansas. It was in force for 7 hr.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued: Jun 21, 2026, 5:07 PM MDT (23:07 UTC)
Expired: Jun 22, 2026, 12:00 AM MDT
In force: 7 hr
Issued by: the Storm Prediction Center
Largest hail expected: 2 in
Strongest gust expected: 70 kt

All 37 counties

Baca County, CO, Bent County, CO, Kiowa County, CO, Prowers County, CO, Barber County, KS, Barton County, KS, Clark County, KS, Comanche County, KS, Cowley County, KS, Edwards County, KS, Ellis County, KS, Finney County, KS, Ford County, KS, Grant County, KS, Gray County, KS, Hamilton County, KS, Harper County, KS, Haskell County, KS, Hodgeman County, KS, Kearny County, KS, Kingman County, KS, Kiowa County, KS, Lane County, KS, Meade County, KS, Morton County, KS, Ness County, KS, Pawnee County, KS, Pratt County, KS, Rush County, KS, Russell County, KS, Scott County, KS, Seward County, KS, Stafford County, KS, Stanton County, KS, Stevens County, KS, Sumner County, KS, Trego County, KS

The radar

The Dodge City radar (KDDC), 121 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:08 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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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: 10%
One or more EF2 to EF5 tornadoes: 2%
Ten or more severe wind reports: 60%
One or more gusts of 65 knots or more: 40%
Ten or more severe hail reports: 40%
One or more hailstones of 2 inches or more: 30%
Six or more combined severe hail and wind reports: 95%

Warnings issued inside it

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 21, 5:33 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	Kiowa, Prowers	27 min
Jun 21, 5:48 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	PUB	Kiowa, Prowers	27 min
Jun 21, 5:54 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	DDC	Hamilton	51 min
Jun 21, 6:02 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Destructive damage threat	DDC	Scott	43 min
Jun 21, 6:13 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	PUB	Kiowa, Prowers	32 min
Jun 21, 6:18 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Hamilton, Kearny	27 min
Jun 21, 6:37 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Finney, Hamilton, Kearny	38 min
Jun 21, 6:39 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Lane, Scott	51 min
Jun 21, 6:41 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	DDC	Hamilton	34 min
Jun 21, 7:07 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Finney, Grant, Gray, Haskell, Kearny	53 min
Jun 21, 7:10 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Finney, Lane	50 min
Jun 21, 7:13 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	DDC	Hamilton, Stanton	47 min
Jun 21, 7:18 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	Bent, Prowers	42 min
Jun 21, 7:38 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Finney, Gray, Haskell	52 min
Jun 21, 7:48 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	Prowers	57 min
Jun 21, 7:51 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	DDC	Grant, Haskell, Morton, Seward, Stanton, Stevens	54 min
Jun 21, 8:01 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	DDC	Gray, Haskell, Meade, Seward	44 min
Jun 21, 8:09 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	PUB	Baca, Prowers	39 min
Jun 21, 8:23 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Clark, Ford, Hodgeman, Meade	52 min
Jun 21, 8:26 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	DDC	Stanton	49 min
Jun 21, 8:29 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Meade, Seward, Stevens	46 min
Jun 21, 9:02 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	DDC	Grant, Morton, Stanton, Stevens	43 min
Jun 21, 9:11 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Harper, Kingman	64 min
Jun 21, 9:13 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	DDC	Clark, Comanche	47 min
Jun 21, 9:17 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Barber, Pratt	28 min
Jun 21, 9:26 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	Prowers	21 min
Jun 21, 9:36 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Harper	69 min
Jun 21, 9:42 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Barber	48 min
Jun 21, 9:59 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	DDC	Clark, Comanche	31 min
Jun 21, 10:01 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	Bent, Prowers	29 min
Jun 21, 10:04 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	Bent, Otero	26 min
Jun 21, 10:28 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Sumner	62 min
Jun 21, 10:29 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	PUB	Bent, Otero	24 min
Jun 21, 10:44 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	ICT	Harper	39 min
Jun 21, 10:50 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	Bent, Prowers	19 min
Jun 21, 11:33 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	Bent	27 min

Discussions around it

SPC mesoscale discussions over the same counties from four hours before the watch to its end.

SPC that day

Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 20, 10:54 PM MDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Logan, Morgan, Washington, Weld	2 hr
Jun 21, 11:51 AM MDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Phillips, Sedgwick, Yuma	114 min
Jun 21, 12:46 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	Cheyenne, Kit Carson, Lincoln, Phillips, Sedgwick, Washington and 1 more	7 hr
Jun 21, 2:33 PM MDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Cheyenne, Elbert, Kit Carson, Lincoln, Phillips, Sedgwick and 2 more	117 min
Jun 20, 6:08 PM MDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Gove, Lane, Logan, Scott, Wichita	37 min
Jun 20, 6:22 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	Barton, Chase, Clay, Cloud, Dickinson, Edwards and 26 more	8 hr
Jun 20, 7:29 PM MDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Barton, Edwards, Ellis, Ellsworth, Finney, Ford and 17 more	91 min
Jun 20, 8:42 PM MDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Barber, Barton, Butler, Clark, Comanche, Cowley and 33 more	63 min
Jun 20, 8:59 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	Barber, Clark, Comanche, Finney, Ford, Grant and 14 more	6 hr
Jun 20, 10:24 PM MDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Barber, Barton, Chase, Clark, Clay, Cloud and 33 more	96 min
Jun 20, 10:47 PM MDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Allen, Anderson, Atchison, Bourbon, Chautauqua, Coffey and 21 more	58 min
Jun 20, 11:02 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	Allen, Anderson, Atchison, Bourbon, Butler, Chautauqua and 23 more	6 hr
Jun 21, 1:36 AM MDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Allen, Anderson, Bourbon, Butler, Chase, Chautauqua and 24 more	114 min
Jun 21, 4:27 AM MDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Allen, Bourbon, Butler, Chautauqua, Cherokee, Cowley and 10 more	63 min
Jun 21, 2:01 PM MDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Barber, Chautauqua, Cherokee, Comanche, Cowley, Crawford and 8 more	119 min
Jun 21, 4:19 PM MDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Barton, Edwards, Ellis, Finney, Ford, Graham and 18 more	56 min
Jun 21, 4:21 PM MDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Allen, Bourbon, Chautauqua, Cherokee, Crawford, Elk and 4 more	84 min
Jun 21, 4:40 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	Chautauqua, Cherokee, Crawford, Elk, Labette, Montgomery and 2 more	7 hr

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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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.