Alert archive / Kansas / Severe Thunderstorm Watches in 2011
Severe Thunderstorm Watch 587
The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at Jul 2, 2011, 10:56 PM CDT for 44 counties in Kansas; 17 counties in Nebraska. It was in force for 6 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 2, 2011, 10:56 PM CDT (03:56 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 3, 2011, 5:00 AM CDT
- In force
- 6 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
- Largest hail expected
- 2 in
- Strongest gust expected
- 65 kt
All 61 counties
Barton County, KS, Butler County, KS, Chase County, KS, Clay County, KS, Cloud County, KS, Dickinson County, KS, Edwards County, KS, Ellis County, KS, Ellsworth County, KS, Geary County, KS, Greenwood County, KS, Harvey County, KS, Hodgeman County, KS, Jewell County, KS, Lane County, KS, Lincoln County, KS, Lyon County, KS, Marion County, KS, Marshall County, KS, McPherson County, KS, Mitchell County, KS, Morris County, KS, Nemaha County, KS, Ness County, KS, Osborne County, KS, Ottawa County, KS, Pawnee County, KS, Phillips County, KS, Pottawatomie County, KS, Reno County, KS, Republic County, KS, Rice County, KS, Riley County, KS, Rooks County, KS, Rush County, KS, Russell County, KS, Saline County, KS, Scott County, KS, Sedgwick County, KS, Smith County, KS, Stafford County, KS, Trego County, KS, Wabaunsee County, KS, Washington County, KS, Adams County, NE, Clay County, NE, Fillmore County, NE, Franklin County, NE, Furnas County, NE, Gage County, NE, Gosper County, NE, Harlan County, NE, Jefferson County, NE, Johnson County, NE, Kearney County, NE, Nuckolls County, NE, Pawnee County, NE, Phelps County, NE, Saline County, NE, Thayer County, NE, Webster County, NE
The radar
The Grand Island radar (KUEX), 110 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 04:00 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
- 5%
- One or more EF2 to EF5 tornadoes
- 2%
- Ten or more severe wind reports
- 40%
- One or more gusts of 65 knots or more
- 40%
- Ten or more severe hail reports
- 30%
- One or more hailstones of 2 inches or more
- 30%
- Six or more combined severe hail and wind reports
- 80%
Warnings issued inside it
3 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 2, 11:25 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Smith | 50 min |
| Jul 2, 11:28 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Ellis, Rush | 37 min |
| Jul 2, 11:31 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Phillips | 44 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, 3.9 hours before the alert went out and 223 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
- 172 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -36 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 3307 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 23 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -39 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 35 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 2, 8:40 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Cheyenne, Decatur, Finney, Gove, Graham, Greeley and 10 more | 2 hr |
| Jul 2, 10:46 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Barton, Clay, Cloud, Dickinson, Ellis, Ellsworth and 27 more | 29 min |
| Jul 3, 1:49 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Chase, Clay, Cloud, Dickinson, Ellsworth, Geary and 19 more | 86 min |
| Jul 3, 3:00 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Barber, Butler, Chase, Clark, Comanche, Cowley and 14 more | 60 min |
| Jul 2, 7:48 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Banner, Box Butte, Dawes, Garden, Morrill, Scotts Bluff and 2 more | 117 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.