Alert archive / Missouri / Tornado Watches in 2008
Tornado Watch 437
The Storm Prediction Center issued this tornado watch at Jun 3, 2008, 3:40 PM CDT for 6 counties in Kansas; 46 counties in Missouri. It was in force for 7 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 3, 2008, 3:40 PM CDT (20:40 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 3, 2008, 11:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 7 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
- Largest hail expected
- 3 in
- Strongest gust expected
- 60 kt
All 52 counties
Atchison County, KS, Doniphan County, KS, Johnson County, KS, Leavenworth County, KS, Miami County, KS, Wyandotte County, KS, Adair County, MO, Andrew County, MO, Audrain County, MO, Boone County, MO, Buchanan County, MO, Caldwell County, MO, Callaway County, MO, Carroll County, MO, Cass County, MO, Chariton County, MO, Clark County, MO, Clay County, MO, Clinton County, MO, Cole County, MO, Cooper County, MO, Daviess County, MO, DeKalb County, MO, Gentry County, MO, Grundy County, MO, Harrison County, MO, Howard County, MO, Jackson County, MO, Johnson County, MO, Knox County, MO, Lafayette County, MO, Lewis County, MO, Linn County, MO, Livingston County, MO, Macon County, MO, Marion County, MO, Mercer County, MO, Moniteau County, MO, Monroe County, MO, Osage County, MO, Pettis County, MO, Platte County, MO, Putnam County, MO, Ralls County, MO, Randolph County, MO, Ray County, MO, Saline County, MO, Schuyler County, MO, Scotland County, MO, Shelby County, MO, Sullivan County, MO, Worth County, MO
The radar
The Pleasant Hill radar (KEAX), 102 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:37 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
- 50%
- One or more EF2 to EF5 tornadoes
- 20%
- Ten or more severe wind reports
- 50%
- One or more gusts of 65 knots or more
- 30%
- Ten or more severe hail reports
- 70%
- One or more hailstones of 2 inches or more
- 50%
- Six or more combined severe hail and wind reports
- 90%
Warnings issued inside it
20 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 3, 6:29 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Johnson, Wyandotte | 46 min |
| Jun 3, 6:43 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Caldwell, Carroll, Livingston | 47 min |
| Jun 3, 6:52 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | EAX | Caldwell, Carroll, Livingston | 23 min |
| Jun 3, 7:06 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Johnson, Wyandotte | 39 min |
| Jun 3, 7:11 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EAX | Johnson, Wyandotte | 7 hr |
| Jun 3, 7:16 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Caldwell, Carroll, Livingston | 44 min |
| Jun 3, 7:25 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Johnson, Wyandotte | 35 min |
| Jun 3, 7:28 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | Knox, Shelby | 47 min |
| Jun 3, 7:36 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Jackson | 39 min |
| Jun 3, 7:52 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Carroll, Livingston | 38 min |
| Jun 3, 8:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | Knox, Lewis, Marion, Shelby | 35 min |
| Jun 3, 8:09 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | Marion, Monroe, Shelby | 44 min |
| Jun 3, 8:24 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Carroll, Chariton | 25 min |
| Jun 3, 8:40 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EAX | Jackson | 6 hr |
| Jun 3, 8:53 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EAX | Johnson | 6 hr |
| Jun 3, 9:01 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | LSX | Shelby | 6 hr |
| Jun 3, 9:33 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EAX | Miami | 5 hr |
| Jun 3, 10:06 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | LSX | Marion | 6 hr |
| Jun 3, 10:46 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | LSX | Knox | 6 hr |
| Jun 3, 10:55 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EAX | Johnson, Pettis | 6 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
Topeka, KS (KTOP), launched 12:00Z, 8.7 hours before the alert went out and 174 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
- 1142 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -327 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1032 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 55 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 581 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 650 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
SPC that day
Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 2, 10:03 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Clay, Dickinson, Douglas, Ellsworth, Geary, Jackson and 12 more | 87 min |
| Jun 3, 2:09 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Greeley, Wallace | 96 min |
| Jun 3, 2:28 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Greeley, Sherman, Wallace | 3 hr |
| Jun 3, 5:01 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Greeley, Wallace | 59 min |
| Jun 3, 1:53 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Cheyenne, Greeley, Hamilton, Morton, Sherman, Stanton and 2 more | 97 min |
| Jun 3, 2:33 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Atchison, Brown, Chase, Dickinson, Doniphan, Douglas and 20 more | 117 min |
| Jun 3, 4:12 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Cheyenne, Clark, Comanche, Finney, Ford, Grant and 15 more | 63 min |
| Jun 3, 4:32 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Barber, Clark, Comanche, Ford, Grant, Gray and 8 more | 5 hr |
| Jun 3, 6:15 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Cheyenne, Greeley, Logan, Sherman, Thomas, Wallace | 60 min |
| Jun 3, 6:51 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Barber, Butler, Chautauqua, Clark, Comanche, Cowley and 9 more | 54 min |
| Jun 2, 8:02 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Adair, Audrain, Boone, Caldwell, Callaway, Chariton and 29 more | 118 min |
| Jun 2, 9:15 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Adair, Audrain, Chariton, Clark, Daviess, Gentry and 23 more | 8 hr |
| Jun 3, 3:08 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Clark, Knox, Lewis, Marion, Pike, Ralls and 2 more | 97 min |
| Jun 3, 3:31 AM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Audrain, Knox, Lewis, Lincoln, Marion, Monroe and 6 more | 10 hr |
| Jun 3, 4:12 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Atchison | 2 hr |
| Jun 3, 4:33 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Atchison, Gentry, Harrison, Holt, Mercer, Nodaway and 3 more | 7 hr |
| Jun 3, 6:49 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Adair, Andrew, Atchison, Chariton, Clark, Daviess and 16 more | 86 min |
| Jun 3, 7:17 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Audrain, Clark, Lewis, Lincoln, Marion, Monroe and 5 more | 118 min |
| Jun 3, 7:19 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Clark, Scotland | 4 hr |
| Jun 3, 5:38 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Adair, Audrain, Boone, Buchanan, Caldwell, Callaway and 29 more | 2 hr |
| Jun 3, 5:56 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Lincoln, Montgomery, Pike, Saint Charles, Saint Louis, Warren and 1 more | 8 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.