Alert archive / Kansas / Severe Thunderstorm Watches in 2012
Severe Thunderstorm Watch 675
The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at Nov 10, 2012, 3:36 PM CST for 37 counties in Kansas; 34 counties in Nebraska. It was in force for 7 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Nov 10, 2012, 3:36 PM CST (21:36 UTC)
- Expired
- Nov 10, 2012, 11:00 PM CST
- In force
- 7 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
- Largest hail expected
- 2 in
- Strongest gust expected
- 60 kt
All 71 counties
Barber County, KS, Barton County, KS, Clay County, KS, Cloud County, KS, Comanche County, KS, Dickinson County, KS, Edwards County, KS, Ellis County, KS, Ellsworth County, KS, Geary County, KS, Harper County, KS, Harvey County, KS, Jewell County, KS, Kingman County, KS, Kiowa County, KS, Lincoln County, KS, Marion County, KS, Marshall County, KS, McPherson County, KS, Mitchell County, KS, Morris County, KS, Osborne County, KS, Ottawa County, KS, Pawnee County, KS, Pratt County, KS, Reno County, KS, Republic County, KS, Rice County, KS, Riley County, KS, Rush County, KS, Russell County, KS, Saline County, KS, Sedgwick County, KS, Smith County, KS, Stafford County, KS, Sumner County, KS, Washington County, KS, Adams County, NE, Burt County, NE, Butler County, NE, Cass County, NE, Clay County, NE, Colfax County, NE, Cuming County, NE, Dodge County, NE, Douglas County, NE, Fillmore County, NE, Gage County, NE, Hall County, NE, Hamilton County, NE, Howard County, NE, Jefferson County, NE, Johnson County, NE, Lancaster County, NE, Merrick County, NE, Nance County, NE, Nuckolls County, NE, Otoe County, NE, Pawnee County, NE, Platte County, NE, Polk County, NE, Saline County, NE, Sarpy County, NE, Saunders County, NE, Seward County, NE, Stanton County, NE, Thayer County, NE, Thurston County, NE, Washington County, NE, Webster County, NE, York County, NE
The radar
The Wichita radar (KICT), 151 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:38 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
- 60%
- 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
- 20%
- Six or more combined severe hail and wind reports
- 80%
Warnings issued inside it
33 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nov 10, 4:32 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Hall, Howard, Merrick, Nance | 28 min |
| Nov 10, 4:35 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Edwards, Ford, Hodgeman | 40 min |
| Nov 10, 4:53 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Greeley, Howard, Nance | 12 min |
| Nov 10, 4:57 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Adams, Hall | 24 min |
| Nov 10, 5:01 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Edwards, Ford, Hodgeman, Pawnee, Rush | 44 min |
| Nov 10, 5:37 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Barton, Russell | 53 min |
| Nov 10, 5:45 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Edwards, Ellis, Pawnee, Rush, Stafford | 27 min |
| Nov 10, 5:57 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Adams, Clay, Franklin, Kearney, Webster | 63 min |
| Nov 10, 6:00 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Barber, Comanche, Kiowa, Pratt | 30 min |
| Nov 10, 6:01 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Hall, Hamilton, Howard, Merrick | 59 min |
| Nov 10, 6:10 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Edwards, Pawnee, Pratt, Rush, Stafford | 50 min |
| Nov 10, 6:19 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Barton, Ellsworth, Lincoln, Russell | 56 min |
| Nov 10, 6:25 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Barber, Clark, Comanche, Edwards, Ford, Kiowa and 1 more | 50 min |
| Nov 10, 6:29 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OAX | Platte | 31 min |
| Nov 10, 6:33 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Hamilton, York | 42 min |
| Nov 10, 6:49 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Polk | 26 min |
| Nov 10, 6:52 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Barton, Ellsworth, Rice | 53 min |
| Nov 10, 6:55 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Pawnee, Stafford | 50 min |
| Nov 10, 6:55 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Clay, Fillmore | 35 min |
| Nov 10, 7:07 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Edwards, Kiowa, Pratt, Stafford | 53 min |
| Nov 10, 7:07 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Jewell, Smith | 23 min |
| Nov 10, 7:10 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OAX | Butler | 35 min |
| Nov 10, 7:17 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Lincoln, Saline | 28 min |
| Nov 10, 7:21 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Cloud, Ottawa | 39 min |
| Nov 10, 7:24 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OAX | Butler, Colfax, Cuming, Dodge, Saunders, Stanton | 36 min |
| Nov 10, 7:29 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Saline | 35 min |
| Nov 10, 7:41 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Stafford | 34 min |
| Nov 10, 7:52 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Ellsworth, Reno, Rice | 53 min |
| Nov 10, 7:55 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Clay, Cloud, Dickinson, Ottawa | 50 min |
| Nov 10, 8:27 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | McPherson, Saline | 43 min |
| Nov 10, 8:38 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OAX | Gage, Johnson, Lancaster, Otoe | 26 min |
| Nov 10, 8:47 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Marshall, Nemaha | 43 min |
| Nov 10, 9:02 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Dickinson | 43 min |
Discussions around it
SPC mesoscale discussions over the same counties from four hours before the watch to its end.
SPC that day
Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nov 10, 1:53 PM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Barton, Cloud, Comanche, Edwards, Ellis, Ellsworth and 13 more | 2 hr |
| Nov 10, 12:11 PM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Dawes, Sioux | 4 hr |
| Nov 10, 5:10 PM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Boyd, Cherry, Keya Paha | 5 hr |
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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.