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Severe Thunderstorm Watch 47
The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at Mar 7, 2009, 9:51 PM CST for 19 counties in Kansas. It was in force for 4 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Mar 7, 2009, 9:51 PM CST (03:51 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 8, 2009, 3:00 AM CDT
- In force
- 4 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
- Largest hail expected
- 1.5 in
- Strongest gust expected
- 60 kt
Counties Allen County, KS, Anderson County, KS, Butler County, KS, Chase County, KS, Coffey County, KS, Cowley County, KS, Elk County, KS, Franklin County, KS, Greenwood County, KS, Harper County, KS, Harvey County, KS, Kingman County, KS, Lyon County, KS, Marion County, KS, Osage County, KS, Reno County, KS, Sedgwick County, KS, Sumner County, KS, Woodson County, KS
The radar
The Wichita radar (KICT), 61 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 03:54 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
- 20%
- One or more EF2 to EF5 tornadoes
- 5%
- Ten or more severe wind reports
- 30%
- One or more gusts of 65 knots or more
- 30%
- Ten or more severe hail reports
- 30%
- One or more hailstones of 2 inches or more
- 20%
- Six or more combined severe hail and wind reports
- 60%
Warnings issued inside it
11 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 7, 10:09 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Chase | 21 min |
| Mar 7, 10:18 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Harvey, McPherson, Marion | 27 min |
| Mar 7, 10:30 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | McPherson, Reno | 15 min |
| Mar 7, 10:37 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Lyon | 23 min |
| Mar 7, 10:40 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Chase, Marion | 35 min |
| Mar 7, 10:43 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Harvey, McPherson, Reno | 32 min |
| Mar 7, 10:53 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Lyon, Osage, Shawnee, Wabaunsee | 37 min |
| Mar 7, 11:11 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Harper, Kingman, Sedgwick, Sumner | 23 min |
| Mar 7, 11:24 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Osage, Shawnee | 36 min |
| Mar 7, 11:30 PM CST | Flash Flood Warning | TOP | Lyon, Osage | 60 min |
| Mar 7, 11:40 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Douglas, Franklin, Osage | 50 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
Topeka, KS (KTOP), launched 00:00Z, 3.9 hours before the alert went out and 157 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
- 205 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -115 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1059 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 77 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 336 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 393 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 3.1
SPC that day
Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 7, 6:31 PM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Johnson, Leavenworth, Linn, Miami, Wyandotte | 59 min |
| Mar 7, 7:33 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Atchison, Johnson, Leavenworth, Linn, Miami, Wyandotte | 7 hr |
| Mar 7, 8:27 PM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Barber, Butler, Chase, Coffey, Douglas, Franklin and 16 more | 2 hr |
| Mar 7, 10:26 PM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Johnson, Leavenworth, Linn, Miami, Wyandotte | 2 hr |
| Mar 8, 12:43 AM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Anderson, Chase, Coffey, Douglas, Franklin, Greenwood and 11 more | 92 min |
| Mar 8, 5:56 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Crawford | 64 min |
| Mar 8, 6:32 AM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Bourbon, Cherokee, Crawford | 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.