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Severe Thunderstorm Watch 229
The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at Jun 5, 2014, 8:07 AM CDT for 5 counties in Kansas; 14 counties in Missouri. It was in force for 5 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 5, 2014, 8:07 AM CDT (13:07 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 5, 2014, 1:09 PM CDT
- In force
- 5 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
- Largest hail expected
- 1.5 in
- Strongest gust expected
- 60 kt
Counties Johnson County, KS, Leavenworth County, KS, Linn County, KS, Miami County, KS, Wyandotte County, KS, Bates County, MO, Carroll County, MO, Cass County, MO, Clay County, MO, Cooper County, MO, Henry County, MO, Howard County, MO, Jackson County, MO, Johnson County, MO, Lafayette County, MO, Pettis County, MO, Platte County, MO, Ray County, MO, Saline County, MO
The radar
The Pleasant Hill radar (KEAX), 45 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 13:11 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
- 5%
- Ten or more severe wind reports
- 30%
- One or more gusts of 65 knots or more
- 20%
- Ten or more severe hail reports
- 30%
- One or more hailstones of 2 inches or more
- 5%
- Six or more combined severe hail and wind reports
- 60%
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 5, 10:11 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Atchison, Doniphan, Johnson, Leavenworth, Miami, Wyandotte | 49 min |
| Jun 5, 10:58 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Johnson, Leavenworth, Linn, Miami, Wyandotte | 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 (KFOE), launched 12:00Z, 1.1 hours before the alert went out and 135 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
- 737 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -160 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 691 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 40 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 52 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 60 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.1
- Supercell composite
- 3.0
SPC that day
Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 4, 9:07 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Allen, Bourbon, Cherokee, Crawford, Labette, Montgomery and 3 more | 113 min |
| Jun 4, 9:09 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Cheyenne, Decatur, Rawlins, Sheridan, Sherman, Thomas | 96 min |
| Jun 4, 9:23 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Allen, Bourbon, Chautauqua, Cherokee, Crawford, Elk and 6 more | 7 hr |
| Jun 4, 11:50 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Greeley, Hamilton, Kearny, Logan, Scott, Sherman and 2 more | 85 min |
| Jun 5, 12:06 AM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Greeley, Logan, Sherman, Wallace, Wichita | 4 hr |
| Jun 5, 1:35 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Barton, Edwards, Ellis, Ellsworth, Finney, Gove and 20 more | 85 min |
| Jun 5, 1:57 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Barton, Edwards, Ellis, Ellsworth, Finney, Ford and 29 more | 6 hr |
| Jun 5, 2:42 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Cherokee | 93 min |
| Jun 5, 3:50 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Barton, Edwards, Ellis, Ellsworth, Finney, Gove and 24 more | 115 min |
| Jun 5, 4:35 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Allen, Anderson, Bourbon, Butler, Chase, Clay and 20 more | 85 min |
| Jun 5, 4:46 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Allen, Anderson, Bourbon, Butler, Chase, Chautauqua and 29 more | 5 hr |
| Jun 5, 6:04 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Allen, Anderson, Bourbon, Butler, Chase, Chautauqua and 40 more | 86 min |
| Jun 5, 6:26 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Cherokee | 6 hr |
| Jun 5, 7:40 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Allen, Anderson, Bourbon, Chase, Chautauqua, Cherokee and 26 more | 2 hr |
| Jun 5, 10:42 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Johnson, Wyandotte | 63 min |
| Jun 4, 7:24 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Bollinger, Butler, Cape Girardeau, Carter, Dent, Dunklin and 16 more | 8 hr |
| Jun 5, 9:27 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Butler, Carter, Douglas, Dunklin, Howell, New Madrid and 7 more | 63 min |
| Jun 5, 10:06 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Butler, Carter, Douglas, Dunklin, Howell, Laclede and 12 more | 7 hr |
| Jun 5, 1:22 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Butler, Carter, Douglas, Dunklin, Howell, Laclede and 11 more | 53 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.