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Severe Thunderstorm Watch 464
The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at Aug 17, 2014, 9:07 PM CDT for 19 counties in Kansas; 5 counties in Nebraska. It was in force for 4 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Aug 17, 2014, 9:07 PM CDT (02:07 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 18, 2014, 1:00 AM CDT
- In force
- 4 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
- Largest hail expected
- 1.5 in
- Strongest gust expected
- 60 kt
All 24 counties
Clay County, KS, Cloud County, KS, Dickinson County, KS, Ellsworth County, KS, Geary County, KS, Jewell County, KS, Lincoln County, KS, Lyon County, KS, Mitchell County, KS, Morris County, KS, Osborne County, KS, Ottawa County, KS, Republic County, KS, Riley County, KS, Russell County, KS, Saline County, KS, Smith County, KS, Wabaunsee County, KS, Washington County, KS, Clay County, NE, Fillmore County, NE, Nuckolls County, NE, Thayer County, NE, Webster County, NE
The radar
The Grand Island radar (KUEX), 94 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 02:09 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
- 30%
- 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
- 5%
- Six or more combined severe hail and wind reports
- 40%
Warnings issued inside it
14 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 17, 9:13 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Clay, Fillmore, Nuckolls, Thayer | 62 min |
| Aug 17, 9:14 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Ellsworth, Lincoln, Russell | 46 min |
| Aug 17, 9:30 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Jewell, Mitchell, Smith | 45 min |
| Aug 17, 9:33 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Cloud, Republic | 57 min |
| Aug 17, 9:38 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Mitchell, Osborne, Rooks | 37 min |
| Aug 17, 9:58 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Ellsworth, Lincoln, Saline | 47 min |
| Aug 17, 10:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Cloud, Ottawa | 60 min |
| Aug 17, 10:11 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Jewell, Mitchell, Osborne | 49 min |
| Aug 17, 10:13 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Clay, Cloud, Dickinson, Ottawa, Republic, Washington | 62 min |
| Aug 17, 10:27 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Republic, Washington | 48 min |
| Aug 17, 10:49 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | McPherson, Saline | 26 min |
| Aug 17, 10:53 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Dickinson, Geary, Morris | 52 min |
| Aug 17, 11:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Clay, Dickinson, Geary, Pottawatomie, Riley | 42 min |
| Aug 17, 11:16 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Harvey, McPherson, Marion, Saline | 44 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
Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 00:00Z, 2.1 hours before the alert went out and 230 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
- 920 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -23 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 2823 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 24 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 10 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 145 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 2.8
SPC that day
Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 17, 8:57 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Cloud, Jewell, Lincoln, Mitchell, Osborne, Ottawa and 2 more | 63 min |
| Aug 17, 10:34 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Chase, Clay, Cloud, Dickinson, Geary, McPherson and 9 more | 56 min |
| Aug 18, 3:48 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Cheyenne, Sherman | 87 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.