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Severe Thunderstorm Watch 48
The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at Apr 2, 2014, 9:59 PM CDT for 7 counties in Kansas; 27 counties in Missouri. It was in force for 7 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Apr 2, 2014, 9:59 PM CDT (02:59 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 3, 2014, 5:00 AM CDT
- In force
- 7 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
- Largest hail expected
- 2 in
- Strongest gust expected
- 60 kt
All 34 counties
Bourbon County, KS, Crawford County, KS, Johnson County, KS, Leavenworth County, KS, Linn County, KS, Miami County, KS, Wyandotte County, KS, Barton County, MO, Bates County, MO, Benton County, MO, Camden County, MO, Carroll County, MO, Cass County, MO, Cedar County, MO, Chariton County, MO, Clay County, MO, Cooper County, MO, Dade County, MO, Dallas County, MO, Henry County, MO, Hickory County, MO, Howard County, MO, Jackson County, MO, Johnson County, MO, Laclede County, MO, Lafayette County, MO, Morgan County, MO, Pettis County, MO, Platte County, MO, Polk County, MO, Ray County, MO, Saline County, MO, St. Clair County, MO, Vernon County, MO
The radar
The Pleasant Hill radar (KEAX), 26 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 03:02 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
- 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
9 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 2, 10:21 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Johnson, Leavenworth, Wyandotte | 24 min |
| Apr 2, 10:27 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Bates, Cass, Henry, Johnson | 33 min |
| Apr 2, 11:46 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Johnson | 29 min |
| Apr 3, 12:19 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EAX | Linn, Miami | 8 hr |
| Apr 3, 12:37 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Linn | 23 min |
| Apr 3, 12:41 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Buchanan, Platte | 34 min |
| Apr 3, 1:44 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Bates | 31 min |
| Apr 3, 1:52 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EAX | Cooper, Howard, Pettis, Saline | 7 hr |
| Apr 3, 4:51 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | SGF | Benton, Miller, Morgan | 5 hr |
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, 3.0 hours before the alert went out and 111 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
- 4 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 428 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 68 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 427 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 529 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 3.4
SPC that day
Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 2, 7:25 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Allen, Anderson, Barber, Butler, Chase, Clay and 32 more | 8 hr |
| Apr 2, 9:36 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Allen, Anderson, Bourbon, Butler, Chase, Coffey and 22 more | 54 min |
| Apr 3, 12:00 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Allen, Anderson, Atchison, Bourbon, Chase, Clay and 28 more | 90 min |
| Apr 3, 1:05 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Atchison, Brown, Clay, Cloud, Doniphan, Jackson and 9 more | 55 min |
| Apr 3, 2:49 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Allen, Anderson, Atchison, Bourbon, Crawford, Douglas and 8 more | 116 min |
| Apr 3, 12:33 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Allen, Bourbon, Cherokee, Crawford, Labette, Linn and 2 more | 87 min |
| Apr 3, 1:15 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Bourbon, Cherokee, Crawford | 8 hr |
| Apr 3, 9:18 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Barry, Camden, Cedar, Christian, Dade, Dallas and 18 more | 57 min |
| Apr 3, 9:33 AM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Barry, Camden, Christian, Dallas, Dent, Douglas and 19 more | 7 hr |
| Apr 3, 12:05 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Barry, Camden, Cedar, Christian, Dade, Dallas and 19 more | 55 min |
| Apr 3, 12:28 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Bollinger, Butler, Cape Girardeau, Iron, Madison, Mississippi and 7 more | 62 min |
| Apr 3, 12:46 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Bollinger, Butler, Cape Girardeau, Carter, Crawford, Iron and 12 more | 4 hr |
| Apr 3, 3:17 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Audrain, Boone, Carroll, Chariton, Cooper, Howard and 10 more | 58 min |
| Apr 3, 3:48 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Barry, Barton, Benton, Camden, Cedar, Christian and 18 more | 57 min |
| Apr 3, 4:34 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Dent, Howell, Oregon, Ozark, Shannon | 26 min |
| Apr 3, 4:58 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Bollinger, Boone, Butler, Callaway, Cape Girardeau, Carter and 30 more | 7 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.