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Tornado Watch 211
The Storm Prediction Center issued this tornado watch at Jun 3, 2014, 9:20 PM CDT for 5 counties in Kansas. It was in force for 4 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 3, 2014, 9:20 PM CDT (02:20 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 4, 2014, 12:50 AM CDT
- In force
- 4 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
- Largest hail expected
- 3 in
- Strongest gust expected
- 60 kt
Counties Brown County, KS, Jackson County, KS, Jefferson County, KS, Marshall County, KS, Nemaha County, KS
The radar
The Topeka radar (KTWX), 94 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 02:22 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
- 40%
- One or more EF2 to EF5 tornadoes
- 20%
- Ten or more severe wind reports
- 50%
- One or more gusts of 65 knots or more
- 10%
- Ten or more severe hail reports
- 50%
- One or more hailstones of 2 inches or more
- 30%
- Six or more combined severe hail and wind reports
- 70%
Warnings issued inside it
6 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 3, 10:10 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Brown, Jackson, Marshall, Nemaha | 50 min |
| Jun 3, 10:18 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | TOP | Brown, Marshall, Nemaha | 27 min |
| Jun 3, 10:43 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | TOP | Brown, Nemaha | 47 min |
| Jun 3, 10:58 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Brown, Nemaha | 47 min |
| Jun 3, 11:28 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | TOP | Brown | 18 min |
| Jun 4, 12:45 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Marshall, Nemaha, Washington | 45 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, 2.3 hours before the alert went out and 100 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
- 1643 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -60 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1425 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 61 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 119 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 321 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 1.0
- Supercell composite
- 10.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
524
WWUS20 KWNS 040216
SEL1
SPC WW 040216
KSZ000-040600-
URGENT - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
TORNADO WATCH NUMBER 211
NWS STORM PREDICTION CENTER NORMAN OK
920 PM CDT TUE JUN 3 2014
THE NWS STORM PREDICTION CENTER HAS ISSUED A
* TORNADO WATCH FOR PORTIONS OF
NORTHEAST KANSAS
* EFFECTIVE THIS TUESDAY NIGHT AND WEDNESDAY MORNING FROM 920 PM
UNTIL 100 AM CDT.
* PRIMARY THREATS INCLUDE...
A COUPLE TORNADOES POSSIBLE
SCATTERED LARGE HAIL AND ISOLATED VERY LARGE HAIL EVENTS TO 3
INCHES IN DIAMETER POSSIBLE
SCATTERED DAMAGING WIND GUSTS TO 70 MPH POSSIBLE
THE TORNADO WATCH AREA IS APPROXIMATELY ALONG AND 30 STATUTE
MILES EAST AND WEST OF A LINE FROM 35 MILES WEST NORTHWEST OF
FALLS CITY NEBRASKA TO 60 MILES SOUTH OF FALLS CITY NEBRASKA.
FOR A COMPLETE DEPICTION OF THE WATCH SEE THE ASSOCIATED WATCH
OUTLINE UPDATE (WOUS64 KWNS WOU1).
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
REMEMBER...A TORNADO WATCH MEANS CONDITIONS ARE FAVORABLE FOR
TORNADOES AND SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS IN AND CLOSE TO THE WATCH
AREA. PERSONS IN THESE AREAS SHOULD BE ON THE LOOKOUT FOR
THREATENING WEATHER CONDITIONS AND LISTEN FOR LATER STATEMENTS
AND POSSIBLE WARNINGS.
&&
OTHER WATCH INFORMATION...CONTINUE...WW 209...WW 210...
DISCUSSION...THUNDERSTORM COMPLEX OVER SOUTHEAST NEB WILL TRACK
SOUTHEASTWARD AND AFFECT WATCH AREA THIS EVENING. STORM HAS A
HISTORY OF VERY LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS. ENVIRONMENT REMAINS
FAVORABLE FOR ISOLATED TORNADOES AS WELL.
AVIATION...TORNADOES AND A FEW SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WITH HAIL
SURFACE AND ALOFT TO 3 INCHES. EXTREME TURBULENCE AND SURFACE
WIND GUSTS TO 60 KNOTS. A FEW CUMULONIMBI WITH MAXIMUM TOPS TO
550. MEAN STORM MOTION VECTOR 29040.
...HARTSPC that day
Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 3, 9:41 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Atchison, Brown, Doniphan, Jackson, Marshall, Nemaha and 2 more | 64 min |
| Jun 4, 12:28 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Atchison, Brown, Doniphan, Jackson, Leavenworth, Marshall and 1 more | 62 min |
| Jun 4, 12:50 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Atchison, Brown, Doniphan, Jackson, Jefferson, Johnson and 4 more | 3 hr |
| Jun 4, 5:41 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Cheyenne, Rawlins | 64 min |
| Jun 4, 6:12 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Cheyenne, Sherman, Wallace | 8 hr |
| Jun 3, 7:04 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Adams, Blaine, Boone, Buffalo, Butler, Cass and 34 more | 56 min |
| Jun 4, 1:58 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Dawes, Sioux | 92 min |
Nearby
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.