Alert archive / Kansas / Severe Thunderstorm Watches in 2013
Severe Thunderstorm Watch 376
The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at Jun 27, 2013, 8:28 AM CDT for 30 counties in Kansas; 22 counties in Missouri; 7 counties in Nebraska. It was in force for 8 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 27, 2013, 8:28 AM CDT (13:28 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 27, 2013, 4:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 8 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
- Largest hail expected
- 4 in
- Strongest gust expected
- 60 kt
All 59 counties
Anderson County, KS, Atchison County, KS, Brown County, KS, Clay County, KS, Cloud County, KS, Coffey County, KS, Dickinson County, KS, Doniphan County, KS, Douglas County, KS, Franklin County, KS, Geary County, KS, Jackson County, KS, Jefferson County, KS, Johnson County, KS, Leavenworth County, KS, Linn County, KS, Lyon County, KS, Marshall County, KS, Miami County, KS, Morris County, KS, Nemaha County, KS, Osage County, KS, Ottawa County, KS, Pottawatomie County, KS, Republic County, KS, Riley County, KS, Shawnee County, KS, Wabaunsee County, KS, Washington County, KS, Wyandotte County, KS, Andrew County, MO, Atchison County, MO, Bates County, MO, Buchanan County, MO, Caldwell County, MO, Carroll County, MO, Cass County, MO, Clay County, MO, Clinton County, MO, Daviess County, MO, DeKalb County, MO, Gentry County, MO, Henry County, MO, Holt County, MO, Jackson County, MO, Johnson County, MO, Lafayette County, MO, Nodaway County, MO, Pettis County, MO, Platte County, MO, Ray County, MO, Saline County, MO, Gage County, NE, Jefferson County, NE, Johnson County, NE, Nemaha County, NE, Otoe County, NE, Pawnee County, NE, Richardson County, NE
The radar
The Topeka radar (KTWX), 95 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 13:32 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
- 10%
- One or more EF2 to EF5 tornadoes
- 2%
- Ten or more severe wind reports
- 50%
- One or more gusts of 65 knots or more
- 10%
- Ten or more severe hail reports
- 60%
- One or more hailstones of 2 inches or more
- 30%
- Six or more combined severe hail and wind reports
- 70%
Warnings issued inside it
10 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 27, 8:36 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OAX | Nemaha, Pawnee, Richardson | 24 min |
| Jun 27, 8:58 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Brown | 47 min |
| Jun 27, 9:15 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Atchison, Doniphan | 45 min |
| Jun 27, 9:38 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OAX | Pawnee, Richardson | 37 min |
| Jun 27, 10:00 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Atchison, Doniphan | 45 min |
| Jun 27, 10:24 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Leavenworth, Wyandotte | 51 min |
| Jun 27, 12:39 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OAX | Gage, Jefferson, Saline | 36 min |
| Jun 27, 1:15 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OAX | Gage, Jefferson | 30 min |
| Jun 27, 1:17 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Marshall, Washington | 43 min |
| Jun 27, 1:58 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Marshall, Pottawatomie, Riley, Washington | 47 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 12:00Z, 1.5 hours before the alert went out and 98 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
- 3630 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -106 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1189 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 28 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 45 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 83 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 7.5
SPC that day
Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 27, 4:28 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Fremont, Harrison | 62 min |
| Jun 27, 11:35 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Fremont, Mills, Page | 115 min |
| Jun 27, 2:29 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Allen, Anderson, Barber, Barton, Bourbon, Butler and 66 more | 8 hr |
| Jun 27, 3:37 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Allen, Anderson, Atchison, Barber, Barton, Bourbon and 79 more | 83 min |
| Jun 27, 6:54 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Allen, Anderson, Barber, Butler, Chase, Chautauqua and 31 more | 96 min |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Watches in Kansas, 2013Severe Thunderstorm Watches in Missouri, 2013Severe Thunderstorm Watches in Nebraska, 2013Every severe thunderstorm watch in 2013
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.