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Severe Thunderstorm Watch 627
The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at Aug 20, 2007, 9:45 PM CDT for 31 counties in Kansas. It was in force for 3 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Aug 20, 2007, 9:45 PM CDT (02:45 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 21, 2007, 12:16 AM CDT
- In force
- 3 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
- Largest hail expected
- 1.5 in
- Strongest gust expected
- 60 kt
All 31 counties
Barber County, KS, Barton County, KS, Butler County, KS, Chase County, KS, Clark County, KS, Comanche County, KS, Cowley County, KS, Edwards County, KS, Ellsworth County, KS, Ford County, KS, Greenwood County, KS, Harper County, KS, Harvey County, KS, Hodgeman County, KS, Kingman County, KS, Kiowa County, KS, Lincoln County, KS, Marion County, KS, McPherson County, KS, Meade County, KS, Ness County, KS, Pawnee County, KS, Pratt County, KS, Reno County, KS, Rice County, KS, Rush County, KS, Russell County, KS, Saline County, KS, Sedgwick County, KS, Stafford County, KS, Sumner County, KS
The radar
The Wichita radar (KICT), 102 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 02:45 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
- 5%
- One or more EF2 to EF5 tornadoes
- 2%
- Ten or more severe wind reports
- 30%
- One or more gusts of 65 knots or more
- 20%
- Ten or more severe hail reports
- 20%
- One or more hailstones of 2 inches or more
- 5%
- Six or more combined severe hail and wind reports
- 50%
Warnings issued inside it
1 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 20, 10:20 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Harper | 40 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 20, 8:01 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Barber, Clark, Comanche, Edwards, Finney, Ford and 15 more | 89 min |
| Aug 20, 9:13 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Barber, Barton, Butler, Chase, Clark, Coffey and 40 more | 32 min |
| Aug 20, 11:11 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Barber, Harper, Kingman | 64 min |
| Aug 21, 2:47 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Cheyenne, Decatur, Rawlins, Sherman | 118 min |
| Aug 21, 3:50 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Cheyenne, Decatur, Gove, Graham, Greeley, Logan and 8 more | 6 hr |
| Aug 21, 5:53 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Decatur, Greeley, Logan, Norton, Rawlins, Sheridan and 3 more | 97 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.