Alert archive / Missouri / Severe Thunderstorm Watches in 2015
Severe Thunderstorm Watch 368
The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at Jun 28, 2015, 5:16 PM CDT for 4 states. It was in force for 6 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 28, 2015, 5:16 PM CDT (22:16 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 28, 2015, 11:06 PM CDT
- In force
- 6 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
- Largest hail expected
- 2 in
- Strongest gust expected
- 65 kt
All 55 counties
Benton County, AR, Carroll County, AR, Allen County, KS, Bourbon County, KS, Chautauqua County, KS, Cherokee County, KS, Crawford County, KS, Elk County, KS, Labette County, KS, Montgomery County, KS, Neosho County, KS, Wilson County, KS, Woodson County, KS, Barry County, MO, Barton County, MO, Benton County, MO, Camden County, MO, Cedar County, MO, Christian County, MO, Dade County, MO, Dallas County, MO, Dent County, MO, Douglas County, MO, Greene County, MO, Hickory County, MO, Howell County, MO, Jasper County, MO, Laclede County, MO, Lawrence County, MO, Maries County, MO, McDonald County, MO, Miller County, MO, Morgan County, MO, Newton County, MO, Oregon County, MO, Ozark County, MO, Phelps County, MO, Polk County, MO, Pulaski County, MO, Shannon County, MO, St. Clair County, MO, Stone County, MO, Taney County, MO, Texas County, MO, Vernon County, MO, Webster County, MO, Wright County, MO, Craig County, OK, Delaware County, OK, Mayes County, OK, Nowata County, OK, Osage County, OK, Ottawa County, OK, Rogers County, OK, Washington County, OK
The radar
The Springfield radar (KSGF), 39 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:17 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
- 5%
- Ten or more severe wind reports
- 30%
- 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
- 60%
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 28, 6:09 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | Camden, Miller, Morgan | 51 min |
| Jun 28, 6:21 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | SGF | Camden | 24 min |
| Jun 28, 6:54 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | Camden, Dallas, Laclede, Pulaski | 51 min |
| Jun 28, 7:12 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | Maries, Phelps | 32 min |
| Jun 28, 7:38 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | Laclede, Texas, Wright | 52 min |
| Jun 28, 8:42 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | Wright | 48 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, 10.3 hours before the alert went out and 76 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1208 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 38 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 66 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 115 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 28, 3:21 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Allen, Bourbon, Butler, Chautauqua, Cherokee, Cowley and 10 more | 54 min |
| Jun 28, 1:36 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Adair, Audrain, Boone, Callaway, Clark, Cole and 23 more | 114 min |
| Jun 28, 3:03 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Audrain, Boone, Callaway, Clark, Cole, Crawford and 25 more | 8 hr |
| Jun 28, 3:35 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Clark, Knox, Lewis, Lincoln, Marion, Montgomery and 5 more | 115 min |
| Jun 28, 5:56 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Audrain, Callaway, Clark, Cole, Crawford, Franklin and 18 more | 94 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.