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Severe Thunderstorm Watch 358

June 26, 2015Bourbon County, Linn County, Miami County, Kansas; 24 counties in Missouri

The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at Jun 26, 2015, 2:18 AM CDT for Bourbon County, Linn County, Miami County, Kansas; 24 counties in Missouri. It was in force for 3 hr.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued
Jun 26, 2015, 2:18 AM CDT (07:18 UTC)
Expired
Jun 26, 2015, 5:35 AM CDT
In force
3 hr
Issued by
the Storm Prediction Center
Largest hail expected
1 in
Strongest gust expected
70 kt
All 27 counties

Bourbon County, KS, Linn County, KS, Miami County, KS, Barton County, MO, Bates County, MO, Benton County, MO, Camden County, MO, Cass County, MO, Cedar County, MO, Dade County, MO, Dallas County, MO, Greene County, MO, Henry County, MO, Hickory County, MO, Johnson County, MO, Laclede County, MO, Lawrence County, MO, Maries County, MO, Miller County, MO, Morgan County, MO, Pettis County, MO, Phelps County, MO, Polk County, MO, Pulaski County, MO, St. Clair County, MO, Vernon County, MO, Webster County, MO

The radar

The Springfield radar (KSGF), 110 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 07:19 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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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
50%
One or more gusts of 65 knots or more
50%
Ten or more severe hail reports
10%
One or more hailstones of 2 inches or more
5%
Six or more combined severe hail and wind reports
80%

Warnings issued inside it

5 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 26, 2:38 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEAXBates, Cass, Henry, Johnson, Lafayette, Pettis52 min
Jun 26, 2:58 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSGFBenton, St. Clair, Vernon62 min
Jun 26, 3:26 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSGFCamden, Cedar, Dallas, Hickory, Morgan, Polk and 2 more64 min
Jun 26, 4:10 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSGFCamden, Dade, Dallas, Greene, Laclede, Miller and 2 more65 min
Jun 26, 4:29 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningSGFSt. Clair4 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

Springfield, MO (KSGF), launched 00:00Z, 7.3 hours before the alert went out and 156 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.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Springfield, MO at 00:00Z on 2015-06-26Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 2699 joules per kilogram.LCLEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Springfield, MO at 00:00Z on 2015-06-26The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -20 square meters per square second.1939Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.
Mixed-layer CAPE
2699 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-5 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1426 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
8 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-20 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
-23 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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SPC that day

Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 25, 7:04 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCBarton, Edwards, Ellsworth, Ford, Gray, Haskell and 12 more86 min
Jun 25, 9:06 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCAtchison, Brown, Clay, Cloud, Doniphan, Jackson and 10 more84 min
Jun 25, 9:23 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCCheyenne, Decatur, Norton, Rawlins, Sheridan, Sherman and 1 more67 min
Jun 25, 9:49 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPCCheyenne, Decatur, Gove, Graham, Greeley, Logan and 7 more5 hr
Jun 25, 11:33 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCAtchison, Brown, Doniphan, Douglas, Franklin, Geary and 12 more87 min
Jun 25, 11:48 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCFinney, Gove, Grant, Greeley, Hamilton, Kearny and 8 more87 min
Jun 26, 1:46 AM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCAllen, Anderson, Bourbon, Crawford, Douglas, Franklin and 5 more59 min
Jun 26, 2:24 AM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCFinney, Gove, Grant, Gray, Greeley, Hamilton and 10 more96 min
Jun 26, 5:24 AM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCBarber, Butler, Chase, Chautauqua, Cowley, Elk and 9 more96 min
Jun 25, 7:27 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCAudrain, Boone, Callaway, Cooper, Franklin, Gasconade and 12 more93 min
Jun 26, 4:21 AM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCBarton, Benton, Camden, Cedar, Christian, Dade and 17 more84 min
Jun 26, 11:50 AM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCBollinger, Butler, Cape Girardeau, Carter, Dunklin, Howell and 16 more115 min
Jun 26, 12:18 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPCBollinger, Butler, Cape Girardeau, Carter, Dunklin, Howell and 9 more7 hr
Jun 26, 3:16 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCDunklin, Mississippi, New Madrid, Pemiscot89 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.