Alert archive / Missouri / Severe Thunderstorm Watches in 2014
Severe Thunderstorm Watch 400
The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at Jul 7, 2014, 7:26 PM CDT for 5 counties in Kansas; 34 counties in Missouri. It was in force for 6 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 7, 2014, 7:26 PM CDT (00:26 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 8, 2014, 1:00 AM CDT
- In force
- 6 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
- Largest hail expected
- 2.5 in
- Strongest gust expected
- 60 kt
All 39 counties
Johnson County, KS, Leavenworth County, KS, Linn County, KS, Miami County, KS, Wyandotte County, KS, Adair County, MO, Andrew County, MO, Bates County, MO, Buchanan County, MO, Caldwell County, MO, Carroll County, MO, Cass County, MO, Chariton County, MO, Clay County, MO, Clinton County, MO, Cooper County, MO, Daviess County, MO, DeKalb County, MO, Gentry County, MO, Grundy County, MO, Harrison County, MO, Henry County, MO, Howard County, MO, Jackson County, MO, Johnson County, MO, Lafayette County, MO, Linn County, MO, Livingston County, MO, Macon County, MO, Mercer County, MO, Pettis County, MO, Platte County, MO, Putnam County, MO, Randolph County, MO, Ray County, MO, Saline County, MO, Schuyler County, MO, Sullivan County, MO, Worth County, MO
The radar
The Pleasant Hill radar (KEAX), 105 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:28 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
- 80%
- One or more gusts of 65 knots or more
- 10%
- Ten or more severe hail reports
- 80%
- One or more hailstones of 2 inches or more
- 30%
- Six or more combined severe hail and wind reports
- 95%
Warnings issued inside it
15 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 7, 8:12 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Daviess, Gentry, Grundy, Harrison, Mercer, Nodaway and 3 more | 48 min |
| Jul 7, 8:27 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Andrew, Atchison, Buchanan, Clinton, DeKalb, Gentry and 2 more | 48 min |
| Jul 7, 8:34 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EAX | Gentry, Harrison, Nodaway, Worth | 6 hr |
| Jul 7, 8:52 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Adair, Caldwell, Daviess, Gentry, Grundy, Harrison and 7 more | 38 min |
| Jul 7, 9:15 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Atchison, Doniphan, Leavenworth | 45 min |
| Jul 7, 9:28 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Adair, Caldwell, Carroll, Chariton, Daviess, Grundy and 5 more | 47 min |
| Jul 7, 9:48 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EAX | Buchanan, Platte | 5 hr |
| Jul 7, 9:55 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Carroll, Chariton, Clay, Clinton, Jackson, Lafayette and 4 more | 50 min |
| Jul 7, 10:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Chariton, Linn, Macon, Randolph | 45 min |
| Jul 7, 10:03 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Atchison, Leavenworth, Wyandotte | 42 min |
| Jul 7, 10:17 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EAX | Buchanan, Caldwell, Clay, Clinton, Platte, Ray | 5 hr |
| Jul 7, 10:35 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Johnson, Leavenworth, Miami, Wyandotte | 40 min |
| Jul 7, 10:39 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Chariton, Cooper, Howard, Johnson, Lafayette, Pettis and 1 more | 51 min |
| Jul 7, 11:03 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Cooper, Henry, Howard, Johnson, Pettis, Saline | 42 min |
| Jul 7, 11:13 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Johnson, Leavenworth, 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 00:00Z, 0.4 hours before the alert went out and 160 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
- 3800 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -28 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1622 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 42 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 41 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 190 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 1.2
- Supercell composite
- 17.0
SPC that day
Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 7, 7:52 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Atchison, Brown, Clay, Cloud, Doniphan, Douglas and 15 more | 83 min |
| Jul 7, 8:09 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Barton, Edwards, Ellis, Ellsworth, Harvey, Hodgeman and 11 more | 66 min |
| Jul 7, 9:53 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Allen, Anderson, Bourbon, Cherokee, Coffey, Crawford and 10 more | 97 min |
| Jul 7, 10:45 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Bourbon, Crawford | 5 hr |
| Jul 7, 8:52 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Audrain, Boone, Callaway, Cole, Crawford, Franklin and 23 more | 6 hr |
| Jul 7, 11:33 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Audrain, Boone, Callaway, Cole, Crawford, Franklin and 16 more | 87 min |
| Jul 8, 12:49 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Bollinger, Cape Girardeau, Franklin, Iron, Jefferson, Lincoln and 10 more | 86 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.