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Severe Thunderstorm Watch 152
The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at May 8, 2016, 9:08 PM CDT for 5 counties in Kansas; Jefferson County, Saline County, Seward County, Nebraska. It was in force for 3 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- May 8, 2016, 9:08 PM CDT (02:08 UTC)
- Expired
- May 9, 2016, 12:16 AM CDT
- In force
- 3 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
- Largest hail expected
- 1.5 in
- Strongest gust expected
- 60 kt
Counties Clay County, KS, Cloud County, KS, Ottawa County, KS, Republic County, KS, Washington County, KS, Jefferson County, NE, Saline County, NE, Seward County, NE
The radar
The Grand Island radar (KUEX), 84 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 02:09 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
- 2%
- Ten or more severe wind reports
- 20%
- One or more gusts of 65 knots or more
- 5%
- Ten or more severe hail reports
- 30%
- One or more hailstones of 2 inches or more
- 10%
- Six or more combined severe hail and wind reports
- 60%
Warnings issued inside it
3 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 8, 10:05 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Republic | 40 min |
| May 8, 10:36 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Cloud | 21 min |
| May 8, 11:20 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OAX | Jefferson, Saline | 25 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
Omaha, NE (KOAX), launched 00:00Z, 2.1 hours before the alert went out and 151 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
- 104 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -194 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1219 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 41 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 48 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 73 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 8, 7:48 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Clay, Cloud, Ottawa, Republic, Washington | 117 min |
| May 8, 11:17 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Clay, Cloud, Ellis, Ellsworth, Jewell, Lincoln and 10 more | 88 min |
| May 8, 11:56 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Clay, Cloud, Ellis, Ellsworth, Jewell, Lincoln and 9 more | 4 hr |
| May 9, 3:35 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Butler, Chase, Clay, Cloud, Dickinson, Geary and 23 more | 115 min |
| May 9, 1:46 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Allen, Anderson, Atchison, Bourbon, Brown, Butler and 53 more | 59 min |
| May 9, 2:07 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Allen, Anderson, Brown, Butler, Chase, Chautauqua and 41 more | 10 hr |
| May 9, 5:29 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Allen, Anderson, Atchison, Barber, Bourbon, Brown and 48 more | 61 min |
| May 9, 2:26 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Boyd, Cedar, Dakota, Dixon, Knox, Pierce and 2 more | 94 min |
| May 9, 4:52 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Adams, Boone, Buffalo, Burt, Butler, Cass and 37 more | 53 min |
| May 9, 5:13 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Adams, Buffalo, Burt, Butler, Cass, Clay and 36 more | 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.