Alert archive / Missouri / Severe Thunderstorm Watches in 2014
Severe Thunderstorm Watch 75
The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at Apr 13, 2014, 4:27 PM CDT for 9 counties in Arkansas; 50 counties in Missouri; 4 counties in Oklahoma. It was in force for 7 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Apr 13, 2014, 4:27 PM CDT (21:27 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 13, 2014, 11:06 PM CDT
- In force
- 7 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
- Largest hail expected
- 2 in
- Strongest gust expected
- 65 kt
All 63 counties
Baxter County, AR, Benton County, AR, Boone County, AR, Carroll County, AR, Madison County, AR, Marion County, AR, Newton County, AR, Searcy County, AR, Washington County, AR, Audrain County, MO, Barry County, MO, Barton County, MO, Benton County, MO, Boone County, MO, Callaway County, MO, Camden County, MO, Cedar County, MO, Christian County, MO, Cole County, MO, Cooper County, MO, Crawford County, MO, Dade County, MO, Dallas County, MO, Dent County, MO, Douglas County, MO, Franklin County, MO, Gasconade County, MO, Greene County, MO, Henry County, MO, Hickory County, MO, Howard County, MO, Howell County, MO, Jasper County, MO, Laclede County, MO, Lawrence County, MO, Lincoln County, MO, Maries County, MO, McDonald County, MO, Miller County, MO, Moniteau County, MO, Montgomery County, MO, Morgan County, MO, Newton County, MO, Osage County, MO, Ozark County, MO, Pettis County, MO, Phelps County, MO, Polk County, MO, Pulaski County, MO, Randolph County, MO, Saline County, MO, St. Clair County, MO, Stone County, MO, Taney County, MO, Texas County, MO, Vernon County, MO, Warren County, MO, Webster County, MO, Wright County, MO, Adair County, OK, Cherokee County, OK, Delaware County, OK, Ottawa County, OK
The radar
The Springfield radar (KSGF), 17 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:29 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
- 20%
- One or more EF2 to EF5 tornadoes
- 10%
- Ten or more severe wind reports
- 60%
- One or more gusts of 65 knots or more
- 30%
- Ten or more severe hail reports
- 30%
- One or more hailstones of 2 inches or more
- 30%
- Six or more combined severe hail and wind reports
- 80%
Warnings issued inside it
17 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 13, 5:10 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | Barton, Vernon | 50 min |
| Apr 13, 5:39 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | Barton, Jasper, Newton | 51 min |
| Apr 13, 5:40 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Bates, Henry | 50 min |
| Apr 13, 5:40 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Craig, Delaware, Mayes, Ottawa, Rogers | 65 min |
| Apr 13, 5:54 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | Benton, Cedar, Hickory, Polk, St. Clair, Vernon | 66 min |
| Apr 13, 6:15 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | Barry, Barton, Cedar, Christian, Dade, Greene and 5 more | 60 min |
| Apr 13, 6:28 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Adair, Cherokee, Delaware, Mayes, Wagoner | 47 min |
| Apr 13, 6:36 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | SGF | Cedar, Polk | 24 min |
| Apr 13, 6:48 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | Barry, McDonald, Newton, Stone | 57 min |
| Apr 13, 6:56 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | Benton, Camden, Cedar, Dallas, Hickory, Laclede and 3 more | 64 min |
| Apr 13, 7:09 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | Barry, Christian, Dallas, Douglas, Greene, Laclede and 5 more | 51 min |
| Apr 13, 7:14 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Washington | 46 min |
| Apr 13, 7:49 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | Camden, Laclede, Pulaski, Texas | 26 min |
| Apr 13, 8:02 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Crawford, Franklin, Madison, Washington | 58 min |
| Apr 13, 8:51 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Johnson, Logan, Newton, Pope, Scott, Yell | 39 min |
| Apr 13, 9:01 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Franklin, Madison | 14 min |
| Apr 13, 9:50 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Conway, Faulkner, Johnson, Newton, Perry, Pope and 4 more | 40 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
Springfield, MO (KSGF), launched 12:00Z, 9.5 hours before the alert went out and 36 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
- 381 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -335 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 883 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 30 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 367 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 378 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
SPC that day
Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 13, 2:34 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Columbia, Hempstead, Howard, Lafayette, Little River, Miller and 2 more | 2 hr |
| Apr 13, 4:13 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Baxter, Benton, Boone, Carroll, Crawford, Franklin and 9 more | 32 min |
| Apr 13, 4:54 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Clark, Columbia, Hempstead, Howard, Lafayette, Little River and 4 more | 66 min |
| Apr 13, 5:13 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Columbia, Hempstead, Howard, Lafayette, Little River, Miller and 3 more | 6 hr |
| Apr 13, 6:01 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Baxter, Benton, Boone, Carroll, Madison, Marion and 3 more | 59 min |
| Apr 13, 6:25 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Clark, Conway, Crawford, Franklin, Garland, Hempstead and 15 more | 65 min |
| Apr 12, 9:12 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Andrew, Atchison, Buchanan, Gentry, Holt, Nodaway and 1 more | 63 min |
| Apr 12, 11:26 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Adair, Andrew, Buchanan, Caldwell, Clay, Clinton and 16 more | 64 min |
| Apr 13, 7:41 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Adair, Andrew, Atchison, Audrain, Boone, Buchanan and 43 more | 2 hr |
| Apr 13, 12:02 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Adair, Andrew, Bates, Buchanan, Caldwell, Carroll and 24 more | 7 hr |
| Apr 13, 2:32 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Buchanan, Clinton, Platte | 88 min |
| Apr 13, 12:26 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Caddo, Canadian, Carter, Cleveland, Comanche, Cotton and 25 more | 94 min |
| Apr 13, 1:56 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Atoka, Bryan, Canadian, Carter, Cleveland, Coal and 39 more | 8 hr |
| Apr 13, 3:09 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Carter, Cleveland, Creek, Garvin, Grady, Lincoln and 12 more | 96 min |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Watches in Missouri, 2014Severe Thunderstorm Watches in Arkansas, 2014Severe Thunderstorm Watches in Oklahoma, 2014Every severe thunderstorm watch in 2014
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.