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Tornado Watch 51
The Storm Prediction Center issued this tornado watch at Apr 5, 2010, 7:39 PM CDT for 4 states. It was in force for 3 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Apr 5, 2010, 7:39 PM CDT (00:39 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 5, 2010, 10:47 PM CDT
- In force
- 3 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
- Largest hail expected
- 3 in
- Strongest gust expected
- 60 kt
All 47 counties
Adams County, IA, Appanoose County, IA, Clarke County, IA, Davis County, IA, Decatur County, IA, Lucas County, IA, Monroe County, IA, Ringgold County, IA, Taylor County, IA, Union County, IA, Wapello County, IA, Wayne County, IA, Atchison County, KS, Brown County, KS, Clay County, KS, Cloud County, KS, Doniphan County, KS, Jackson County, KS, Marshall County, KS, Nemaha County, KS, Ottawa County, KS, Pottawatomie County, KS, Republic County, KS, Riley County, KS, Washington County, KS, Adair County, MO, Andrew County, MO, Atchison County, MO, Buchanan County, MO, Daviess County, MO, DeKalb County, MO, Gentry County, MO, Grundy County, MO, Harrison County, MO, Holt County, MO, Mercer County, MO, Nodaway County, MO, Putnam County, MO, Schuyler County, MO, Sullivan County, MO, Worth County, MO, Gage County, NE, Jefferson County, NE, Johnson County, NE, Nemaha County, NE, Pawnee County, NE, Richardson County, NE
The radar
The Omaha radar (KOAX), 132 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:41 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
- 30%
- One or more gusts of 65 knots or more
- 30%
- Ten or more severe hail reports
- 60%
- One or more hailstones of 2 inches or more
- 50%
- Six or more combined severe hail and wind reports
- 80%
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 5, 7:43 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Brown, Nemaha | 18 min |
| Apr 5, 7:53 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Marshall | 37 min |
| Apr 5, 8:08 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Washington | 52 min |
| Apr 5, 8:26 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Cloud, Republic, Washington | 34 min |
| Apr 5, 8:44 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Marshall, Washington | 31 min |
| Apr 5, 8:58 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | TOP | Washington | 32 min |
| Apr 5, 8:59 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Atchison, Holt, Nodaway | 26 min |
| Apr 5, 9:09 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OAX | Gage, Pawnee | 36 min |
| Apr 5, 9:13 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Marshall | 17 min |
| Apr 5, 9:18 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | TOP | Marshall, Washington | 27 min |
| Apr 5, 9:38 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Marshall | 11 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
Omaha, NE (KOAX), launched 00:00Z, 0.7 hours before the alert went out and 133 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
- 2 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -74 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 621 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 74 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 116 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 225 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 5, 7:24 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Decatur, Fremont, Page, Ringgold, Taylor | 66 min |
| Apr 5, 9:37 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Benton, Buchanan, Clayton, Delaware, Dubuque, Fayette and 3 more | 53 min |
| Apr 5, 9:54 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Appanoose, Clarke, Decatur, Page, Ringgold, Taylor and 2 more | 66 min |
| Apr 5, 10:39 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Adair, Adams, Appanoose, Audubon, Boone, Carroll and 30 more | 6 hr |
| Apr 5, 11:07 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Clinton, Jackson, Scott | 5 hr |
| Apr 6, 1:20 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Adair, Adams, Audubon, Boone, Calhoun, Carroll and 34 more | 85 min |
| Apr 6, 4:05 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Benton, Black Hawk, Boone, Bremer, Buchanan, Butler and 25 more | 85 min |
| Apr 6, 4:44 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Clinton, Dubuque, Jackson, Scott | 4 hr |
| Apr 6, 1:32 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Adair, Adams, Audubon, Clarke, Dallas, Decatur and 14 more | 58 min |
| Apr 6, 2:57 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Appanoose, Benton, Black Hawk, Buchanan, Cedar, Clarke and 30 more | 7 hr |
| Apr 6, 4:55 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Allamakee, Benton, Black Hawk, Bremer, Buchanan, Chickasaw and 8 more | 65 min |
| Apr 6, 5:06 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Allamakee, Clayton, Fayette, Winneshiek | 6 hr |
| Apr 6, 6:16 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Appanoose, Benton, Cedar, Clarke, Davis, Decatur and 20 more | 59 min |
| Apr 6, 2:08 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Allen, Anderson, Atchison, Butler, Chase, Chautauqua and 26 more | 8 hr |
| Apr 6, 6:08 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Butler, Chase, Douglas, Franklin, Johnson, Leavenworth and 3 more | 97 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.