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Tornado Watch 572

August 8, 20074 states

The Storm Prediction Center issued this tornado watch at Aug 8, 2007, 4:43 PM CDT for 4 states. It was in force for 7 hr.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued
Aug 8, 2007, 4:43 PM CDT (21:43 UTC)
Expired
Aug 8, 2007, 11:53 PM CDT
In force
7 hr
Issued by
the Storm Prediction Center
Largest hail expected
3 in
Strongest gust expected
60 kt
All 56 counties

Adams County, IA, Appanoose County, IA, Clarke County, IA, Davis County, IA, Decatur County, IA, Fremont County, IA, Lucas County, IA, Mills County, IA, Monroe County, IA, Montgomery County, IA, Page County, IA, Ringgold County, IA, Taylor County, IA, Union County, IA, Wapello County, IA, Wayne County, IA, Atchison County, KS, Brown County, KS, Doniphan County, KS, Jackson County, KS, Marshall County, KS, Nemaha County, KS, Pottawatomie County, KS, Washington County, KS, Adair County, MO, Andrew County, MO, Atchison County, MO, Buchanan County, MO, Caldwell County, MO, Clinton County, MO, Daviess County, MO, DeKalb County, MO, Gentry County, MO, Grundy County, MO, Harrison County, MO, Holt County, MO, Linn County, MO, Livingston County, MO, Macon County, MO, Mercer County, MO, Nodaway County, MO, Putnam County, MO, Schuyler County, MO, Sullivan County, MO, Worth County, MO, Cass County, NE, Gage County, NE, Jefferson County, NE, Johnson County, NE, Lancaster County, NE, Nemaha County, NE, Otoe County, NE, Pawnee County, NE, Richardson County, NE, Saline County, NE, Seward County, NE

The radar

The Omaha radar (KOAX), 153 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:44 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
30%
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
50%
One or more hailstones of 2 inches or more
40%
Six or more combined severe hail and wind reports
90%

Warnings issued inside it

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Aug 8, 4:47 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOAXGage, Lancaster, Otoe28 min
Aug 8, 5:15 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOAXGage, Johnson45 min
Aug 8, 5:53 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOAXNemaha37 min
Aug 8, 6:24 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEAXAtchison, Nodaway36 min
Aug 8, 6:27 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOAXNemaha, Richardson33 min
Aug 8, 6:35 PM CDTTornado WarningEAXAtchison, Nodaway25 min
Aug 8, 6:41 PM CDTTornado WarningOAXRichardson34 min
Aug 8, 6:43 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEAXAtchison, Holt47 min
Aug 8, 6:47 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningEAXAtchison, Nodaway6 hr
Aug 8, 6:54 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningOAXNemaha3 hr
Aug 8, 6:58 PM CDTTornado WarningEAXAtchison, Nodaway32 min
Aug 8, 7:03 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEAXAtchison, Nodaway27 min
Aug 8, 7:10 PM CDTTornado WarningEAXNodaway, Worth35 min
Aug 8, 7:10 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningOAXRichardson3 hr
Aug 8, 7:15 PM CDTTornado WarningDMXTaylor45 min
Aug 8, 7:16 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOAXRichardson29 min
Aug 8, 7:23 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEAXAndrew, Gentry, Holt, Nodaway, Worth37 min
Aug 8, 7:47 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOAXRichardson28 min
Aug 8, 7:52 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningTOPNemaha3 hr
Aug 8, 7:53 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEAXAndrew, Daviess, DeKalb, Gentry, Grundy, Harrison and 2 more37 min
Aug 8, 7:57 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDMXRinggold48 min
Aug 8, 8:02 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningDMXRinggold, Taylor6 hr
Aug 8, 8:08 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEAXAtchison37 min
Aug 8, 8:23 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEAXDaviess, Grundy, Harrison, Linn, Livingston, Mercer and 2 more37 min
Aug 8, 8:32 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDMXDecatur43 min
Aug 8, 9:17 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningTOPBrown, Jackson4 hr
Aug 8, 9:27 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningTOPBrown, Jackson4 hr

Discussions around it

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

The nearest sounding before it

Omaha, NE (KOAX), launched 12:00Z, 9.7 hours before the alert went out and 153 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Omaha, NE at 12:00Z on 2007-08-08Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 341 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Omaha, NE at 12:00Z on 2007-08-08The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 67 square meters per square second.1939Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
341 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-250 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
900 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
26 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
67 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
196 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
-0.1

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SPC that day

Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Aug 7, 8:13 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCAdair, Adams, Appanoose, Cedar, Clarke, Dallas and 28 more92 min
Aug 7, 11:46 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCFremont, Page, Taylor2 hr
Aug 8, 3:18 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCFremont, Page87 min
Aug 8, 3:28 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCLee62 min
Aug 7, 11:01 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCCheyenne, Decatur, Ellis, Gove, Graham, Greeley and 17 more119 min
Aug 8, 3:55 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCBarber, Chase, Comanche, Dickinson, Ellsworth, Geary and 15 more3 hr
Aug 8, 3:50 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPCClark, Lewis, Marion, Pike, Ralls4 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.