Alert archive / Kansas / Tornado Watches in 2010
Tornado Watch 285
The Storm Prediction Center issued this tornado watch at Jun 8, 2010, 2:39 PM CDT for 42 counties in Kansas; 35 counties in Missouri. It was in force for 8 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 8, 2010, 2:39 PM CDT (19:39 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 8, 2010, 10:57 PM CDT
- In force
- 8 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
- Largest hail expected
- 2.5 in
- Strongest gust expected
- 70 kt
All 77 counties
Allen County, KS, Anderson County, KS, Atchison County, KS, Bourbon County, KS, Butler County, KS, Chase County, KS, Chautauqua County, KS, Cherokee County, KS, Coffey County, KS, Cowley County, KS, Crawford County, KS, Dickinson County, KS, Douglas County, KS, Elk County, KS, Franklin County, KS, Geary County, KS, Greenwood County, KS, Harper County, KS, Harvey County, KS, Jackson County, KS, Jefferson County, KS, Johnson County, KS, Kingman County, KS, Labette County, KS, Leavenworth County, KS, Linn County, KS, Lyon County, KS, Marion County, KS, McPherson County, KS, Miami County, KS, Montgomery County, KS, Morris County, KS, Neosho County, KS, Osage County, KS, Reno County, KS, Sedgwick County, KS, Shawnee County, KS, Sumner County, KS, Wabaunsee County, KS, Wilson County, KS, Woodson County, KS, Wyandotte County, KS, Adair County, MO, Barton County, MO, Bates County, MO, Benton County, MO, Buchanan County, MO, Caldwell County, MO, Carroll County, MO, Cass County, MO, Cedar County, MO, Chariton County, MO, Clay County, MO, Clinton County, MO, Cooper County, MO, Daviess County, MO, DeKalb County, MO, Grundy County, MO, Henry County, MO, Hickory County, MO, Howard County, MO, Jackson County, MO, Jasper County, MO, Johnson County, MO, Lafayette County, MO, Linn County, MO, Livingston County, MO, Macon County, MO, Morgan County, MO, Pettis County, MO, Platte County, MO, Randolph County, MO, Ray County, MO, Saline County, MO, St. Clair County, MO, Sullivan County, MO, Vernon County, MO
The radar
The Pleasant Hill radar (KEAX), 79 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:40 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
- 60%
- One or more EF2 to EF5 tornadoes
- 40%
- Ten or more severe wind reports
- 60%
- One or more gusts of 65 knots or more
- 30%
- Ten or more severe hail reports
- 80%
- One or more hailstones of 2 inches or more
- 60%
- Six or more combined severe hail and wind reports
- 90%
Warnings issued inside it
29 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 8, 3:27 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Butler, Harvey, Sedgwick | 32 min |
| Jun 8, 4:28 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Chase, Marion | 62 min |
| Jun 8, 4:37 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Johnson, Miami | 38 min |
| Jun 8, 4:40 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | TOP | Coffey, Osage | 35 min |
| Jun 8, 4:45 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EAX | Johnson, Miami | 6 hr |
| Jun 8, 4:49 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Butler | 41 min |
| Jun 8, 5:23 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Butler, Chase, Marion | 24 min |
| Jun 8, 5:35 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | TOP | Coffey, Douglas, Franklin, Lyon, Osage | 4 hr |
| Jun 8, 5:39 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | EAX | Cass | 21 min |
| Jun 8, 5:50 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | TOP | Franklin | 25 min |
| Jun 8, 6:06 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EAX | Carroll, Lafayette, Ray, Saline | 6 hr |
| Jun 8, 6:13 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EAX | Henry, Johnson | 6 hr |
| Jun 8, 6:21 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EAX | Clay, Jackson, Ray | 3 hr |
| Jun 8, 6:46 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Butler, Greenwood | 59 min |
| Jun 8, 6:51 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Coffey | 18 min |
| Jun 8, 6:58 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EAX | Chariton, Howard, Randolph, Saline | 6 hr |
| Jun 8, 7:15 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EAX | Randolph | 6 hr |
| Jun 8, 7:32 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | TOP | Coffey | 28 min |
| Jun 8, 7:37 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | TOP | Anderson | 38 min |
| Jun 8, 7:57 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Greenwood | 63 min |
| Jun 8, 8:20 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | EAX | Linn | 28 min |
| Jun 8, 8:25 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Henry | 35 min |
| Jun 8, 8:26 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EAX | Miami | 6 hr |
| Jun 8, 8:35 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | Bourbon | 40 min |
| Jun 8, 8:58 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Elk, Greenwood | 62 min |
| Jun 8, 9:07 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | Bourbon | 53 min |
| Jun 8, 9:31 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | TOP | Anderson, Coffey, Franklin, Lyon, Osage | 4 hr |
| Jun 8, 9:35 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | SGF | Bourbon | 6 hr |
| Jun 8, 10:51 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | Crawford | 54 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
Springfield, MO (KSGF), launched 12:00Z, 7.7 hours before the alert went out and 233 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
- 1646 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -63 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 713 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 10 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 132 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 157 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 7.9
SPC that day
Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 7, 11:37 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Decatur, Jewell, Norton, Phillips, Rawlins, Republic and 2 more | 113 min |
| Jun 8, 1:22 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Cheyenne, Decatur, Norton, Phillips, Rawlins, Sheridan and 3 more | 113 min |
| Jun 8, 1:59 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Anderson, Brown, Chase, Clay, Cloud, Coffey and 29 more | 7 hr |
| Jun 8, 2:56 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Atchison, Brown, Clay, Cloud, Dickinson, Doniphan and 22 more | 2 hr |
| Jun 8, 7:07 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Allen, Anderson, Atchison, Barton, Bourbon, Butler and 40 more | 83 min |
| Jun 8, 1:56 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Anderson, Atchison, Brown, Butler, Chase, Coffey and 23 more | 2 hr |
| Jun 8, 6:52 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Allen, Anderson, Bourbon, Butler, Coffey, Franklin and 4 more | 113 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.