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Severe Thunderstorm Watch 114
The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at Mar 28, 2012, 8:17 PM CDT for Allen County, Greenwood County, Woodson County, Kansas. It was in force for 4 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Mar 28, 2012, 8:17 PM CDT (01:17 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 28, 2012, 11:48 PM CDT
- In force
- 4 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
- Largest hail expected
- 2.5 in
- Strongest gust expected
- 60 kt
Counties Allen County, KS, Greenwood County, KS, Woodson County, KS
The radar
The Topeka radar (KTWX), 103 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:16 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
- 10%
- One or more gusts of 65 knots or more
- 10%
- Ten or more severe hail reports
- 30%
- One or more hailstones of 2 inches or more
- 50%
- Six or more combined severe hail and wind reports
- 50%
Warnings issued inside it
2 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 28, 8:44 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ICT | Greenwood | 46 min |
| Mar 28, 9:28 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Greenwood, Woodson | 62 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, 1.3 hours before the alert went out and 99 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
- 1317 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -9 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1400 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 39 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 37 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 180 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.5
- Supercell composite
- 6.6
SPC that day
Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 28, 7:53 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Allen, Anderson, Atchison, Bourbon, Brown, Clay and 24 more | 2 hr |
| Mar 28, 11:21 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Atchison, Brown, Doniphan, Nemaha | 84 min |
| Mar 29, 4:50 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Barber, Comanche, Dickinson, Harper, Harvey, Kingman and 6 more | 55 min |
| Mar 29, 4:54 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Atchison, Brown, Doniphan, Jackson, Marshall, Nemaha and 2 more | 36 min |
| Mar 29, 5:10 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Atchison, Brown, Doniphan, Jackson, Jefferson, Marshall and 3 more | 6 hr |
| Mar 29, 5:30 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Barber, Butler, Chase, Coffey, Cowley, Douglas and 13 more | 8 hr |
| Mar 29, 6:58 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Atchison, Brown, Doniphan, Jackson, Jefferson, Marshall and 4 more | 62 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.