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Severe Thunderstorm Watch 105
The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at Apr 26, 2016, 6:23 AM CDT for 6 counties in Kansas; 36 counties in Missouri. It was in force for 7 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Apr 26, 2016, 6:23 AM CDT (11:23 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 26, 2016, 1:52 PM CDT
- In force
- 7 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
- Largest hail expected
- 2 in
- Strongest gust expected
- 65 kt
All 42 counties
Atchison County, KS, Doniphan County, KS, Johnson County, KS, Leavenworth County, KS, Miami County, KS, Wyandotte County, KS, Andrew County, MO, Audrain County, MO, Bates County, MO, Benton County, MO, Boone County, MO, Buchanan County, MO, Caldwell County, MO, Callaway County, MO, Camden County, MO, Carroll County, MO, Cass County, MO, Chariton County, MO, Clay County, MO, Clinton County, MO, Cole County, MO, Cooper County, MO, Daviess County, MO, DeKalb County, MO, Henry County, MO, Hickory County, MO, Holt County, MO, Howard County, MO, Jackson County, MO, Johnson County, MO, Lafayette County, MO, Livingston County, MO, Miller County, MO, Moniteau County, MO, Morgan County, MO, Osage County, MO, Pettis County, MO, Platte County, MO, Randolph County, MO, Ray County, MO, Saline County, MO, St. Clair County, MO
The radar
The Pleasant Hill radar (KEAX), 14 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 11:26 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
- 60%
- One or more gusts of 65 knots or more
- 30%
- Ten or more severe hail reports
- 40%
- One or more hailstones of 2 inches or more
- 30%
- Six or more combined severe hail and wind reports
- 80%
Warnings issued inside it
21 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 26, 6:45 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Doniphan | 30 min |
| Apr 26, 6:49 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Doniphan | 26 min |
| Apr 26, 6:51 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Atchison, Doniphan | 24 min |
| Apr 26, 7:11 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Atchison, Doniphan | 49 min |
| Apr 26, 7:12 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Wyandotte | 33 min |
| Apr 26, 7:25 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Clay, Clinton, Platte | 35 min |
| Apr 26, 7:31 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Atchison | 29 min |
| Apr 26, 7:51 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Atchison, Doniphan, Leavenworth, Wyandotte | 54 min |
| Apr 26, 8:11 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Clay, Jackson, Lafayette, Ray | 34 min |
| Apr 26, 8:44 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Wyandotte | 46 min |
| Apr 26, 9:00 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EAX | Clay, Clinton, Platte | 4 hr |
| Apr 26, 9:24 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Carroll, Cass, Jackson, Johnson, Lafayette, Pettis and 2 more | 51 min |
| Apr 26, 10:06 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Carroll, Chariton, Cooper, Howard, Johnson, Pettis and 1 more | 39 min |
| Apr 26, 10:40 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Chariton, Cooper, Howard, Linn, Macon, Pettis and 2 more | 50 min |
| Apr 26, 10:47 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | Benton, Morgan | 43 min |
| Apr 26, 10:52 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | Boone, Cole, Moniteau | 53 min |
| Apr 26, 11:14 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | Benton, Camden, Miller, Morgan | 46 min |
| Apr 26, 11:20 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EAX | Cooper | 3 hr |
| Apr 26, 11:23 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | Audrain, Boone, Monroe | 22 min |
| Apr 26, 11:37 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | Audrain, Boone, Callaway, Cole, Moniteau, Monroe and 2 more | 53 min |
| Apr 26, 12:17 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | Audrain, Callaway, Franklin, Gasconade, Lincoln, Montgomery and 2 more | 58 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, 11.4 hours before the alert went out and 122 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
- 748 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -47 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1375 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 38 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 30 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 25 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- -0.0
- Supercell composite
- -0.1
SPC that day
Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 26, 2:18 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Atchison, Brown, Clay, Cloud, Dickinson, Doniphan and 21 more | 117 min |
| Apr 26, 3:02 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Brown, Clay, Cloud, Douglas, Geary, Jackson and 14 more | 6 hr |
| Apr 26, 4:37 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Atchison, Brown, Clay, Cloud, Doniphan, Douglas and 13 more | 83 min |
| Apr 26, 7:18 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Atchison, Brown, Doniphan, Jefferson, Leavenworth, Wyandotte | 87 min |
| Apr 26, 10:09 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Chautauqua, Labette, Montgomery | 96 min |
| Apr 26, 1:35 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Allen, Anderson, Butler, Chase, Chautauqua, Clay and 37 more | 115 min |
| Apr 26, 2:12 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Allen, Anderson, Butler, Chase, Chautauqua, Clay and 46 more | 7 hr |
| Apr 26, 6:14 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Atchison, Brown, Doniphan, Leavenworth | 61 min |
| Apr 26, 6:32 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Allen, Anderson, Butler, Chase, Chautauqua, Clay and 46 more | 58 min |
| Apr 26, 10:03 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Audrain, Benton, Boone, Callaway, Camden, Carroll and 40 more | 117 min |
| Apr 26, 11:52 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Bollinger, Butler, Cape Girardeau, Carter, Crawford, Dallas and 35 more | 7 hr |
| Apr 26, 2:42 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Bollinger, Cape Girardeau, Iron, Jefferson, Madison, Mississippi and 11 more | 2 hr |
| Apr 26, 3:03 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Mississippi, New Madrid, Scott | 6 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.