Alert archive / Kansas / Tornado Watches in 2007
Tornado Watch 88
The Storm Prediction Center issued this tornado watch at Mar 28, 2007, 11:51 PM CDT for 28 counties in Kansas; Furnas County, Hitchcock County, Red Willow County, Nebraska. It was in force for 4 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Mar 28, 2007, 11:51 PM CDT (04:51 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 29, 2007, 3:43 AM CDT
- In force
- 4 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
- Largest hail expected
- 2 in
- Strongest gust expected
- 60 kt
All 31 counties
Clark County, KS, Comanche County, KS, Decatur County, KS, Edwards County, KS, Ellis County, KS, Finney County, KS, Ford County, KS, Gove County, KS, Graham County, KS, Gray County, KS, Haskell County, KS, Hodgeman County, KS, Kearny County, KS, Kiowa County, KS, Lane County, KS, Logan County, KS, Meade County, KS, Ness County, KS, Norton County, KS, Pawnee County, KS, Rawlins County, KS, Rush County, KS, Scott County, KS, Seward County, KS, Sheridan County, KS, Thomas County, KS, Trego County, KS, Wichita County, KS, Furnas County, NE, Hitchcock County, NE, Red Willow County, NE
The radar
The Goodland radar (KGLD), 118 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 04:53 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
- 30%
- One or more gusts of 65 knots or more
- 20%
- 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
- 70%
Warnings issued inside it
2 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 29, 12:43 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Clark, Meade | 47 min |
| Mar 29, 1:09 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Clark | 41 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 00:00Z, 4.9 hours before the alert went out and 146 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
- 2811 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -1 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 815 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 34 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 155 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 209 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 2.2
- Supercell composite
- 12.2
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000
WWUS20 KWNS 290451
SEL8
SPC WW 290451
KSZ000-NEZ000-291000-
URGENT - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
TORNADO WATCH NUMBER 88
NWS STORM PREDICTION CENTER NORMAN OK
1150 PM CDT WED MAR 28 2007
THE NWS STORM PREDICTION CENTER HAS ISSUED A
TORNADO WATCH FOR PORTIONS OF
LARGE PART OF WESTERN KANSAS
SMALL PART OF SOUTHWEST NEBRASKA
EFFECTIVE THIS WEDNESDAY NIGHT AND THURSDAY MORNING FROM 1150 PM
UNTIL 500 AM CDT.
TORNADOES...HAIL TO 2 INCHES IN DIAMETER...THUNDERSTORM WIND
GUSTS TO 70 MPH...AND DANGEROUS LIGHTNING ARE POSSIBLE IN THESE
AREAS.
THE TORNADO WATCH AREA IS APPROXIMATELY ALONG AND 50 STATUTE
MILES EAST AND WEST OF A LINE FROM 25 MILES EAST NORTHEAST OF
MCCOOK NEBRASKA TO 35 MILES EAST OF LIBERAL KANSAS. FOR A
COMPLETE DEPICTION OF THE WATCH SEE THE ASSOCIATED WATCH OUTLINE
UPDATE (WOUS64 KWNS WOU8).
REMEMBER...A TORNADO WATCH MEANS CONDITIONS ARE FAVORABLE FOR
TORNADOES AND SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS IN AND CLOSE TO THE WATCH
AREA. PERSONS IN THESE AREAS SHOULD BE ON THE LOOKOUT FOR
THREATENING WEATHER CONDITIONS AND LISTEN FOR LATER STATEMENTS
AND POSSIBLE WARNINGS.
OTHER WATCH INFORMATION...THIS TORNADO WATCH REPLACES TORNADO
WATCH NUMBER 83. WATCH NUMBER 83 WILL NOT BE IN EFFECT AFTER 1150
PM CDT. CONTINUE...WW 85...WW 86...WW 87...
DISCUSSION...WITH VERY STRONG SHEAR PROFILES PERSISTING...SUPERCELLS
WILL CONTINUE TO BE A THREAT ACROSS THE WATCH AREA FOR SEVERAL
HOURS. ISOLATED TORNADOES ALONG WITH LARGE HAIL AND WIND DAMAGE
WILL BE POSSIBLE WITH ANY SUPERCELL.
AVIATION...TORNADOES AND A FEW SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WITH HAIL
SURFACE AND ALOFT TO 2 INCHES. EXTREME TURBULENCE AND SURFACE
WIND GUSTS TO 60 KNOTS. A FEW CUMULONIMBI WITH MAXIMUM TOPS TO
500. MEAN STORM MOTION VECTOR 24035.
...HALESSPC that day
Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 28, 9:06 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Cheyenne, Clark, Comanche, Decatur, Edwards, Ellis and 33 more | 114 min |
| Mar 28, 11:07 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Clark, Comanche, Decatur, Edwards, Ellis, Finney and 30 more | 113 min |
| Mar 29, 2:03 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Barber, Comanche, Harper, Kingman, Pratt, Reno and 1 more | 57 min |
| Mar 29, 6:51 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Decatur, Edwards, Ellis, Graham, Hodgeman, Kiowa and 7 more | 2 hr |
| Mar 28, 9:32 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Arthur, Blaine, Brown, Chase, Cherry, Custer and 16 more | 5 hr |
Nearby
Tornado Watches in Kansas, 2007Tornado Watches in Nebraska, 2007Every tornado watch in 2007
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.