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Severe Thunderstorm Watch 174

May 13, 20164 states

The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at May 13, 2016, 1:25 PM CDT for 4 states. It was in force for 6 hr.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued
May 13, 2016, 1:25 PM CDT (18:25 UTC)
Expired
May 13, 2016, 7:26 PM CDT
In force
6 hr
Issued by
the Storm Prediction Center
Largest hail expected
1.5 in
Strongest gust expected
60 kt
All 134 counties

Appanoose County, IA, Clarke County, IA, Davis County, IA, Decatur County, IA, Des Moines County, IA, Henry County, IA, Jefferson County, IA, Keokuk County, IA, Lee County, IA, Louisa County, IA, Lucas County, IA, Mahaska County, IA, Marion County, IA, Monroe County, IA, Ringgold County, IA, Taylor County, IA, Union County, IA, Van Buren County, IA, Wapello County, IA, Warren County, IA, Washington County, IA, Wayne County, IA, Adams County, IL, Brown County, IL, Fulton County, IL, Hancock County, IL, Henderson County, IL, Knox County, IL, McDonough County, IL, Mercer County, IL, Pike County, IL, Schuyler County, IL, Warren County, IL, Allen County, KS, Anderson County, KS, Atchison County, KS, Bourbon County, KS, Brown County, KS, Butler County, KS, Chase County, KS, Chautauqua County, KS, Cherokee County, KS, Coffey County, KS, Cowley County, KS, Crawford County, KS, Dickinson County, KS, Doniphan County, KS, Douglas County, KS, Elk County, KS, Franklin County, KS, Geary County, KS, Greenwood County, KS, Harper County, KS, Harvey County, KS, Jackson County, KS, Jefferson County, KS, Johnson County, KS, Kingman County, KS, Labette County, KS, Leavenworth County, KS, Linn County, KS, Lyon County, KS, Marion County, KS, McPherson County, KS, Miami County, KS, Montgomery County, KS, Morris County, KS, Nemaha County, KS, Neosho County, KS, Osage County, KS, Pottawatomie County, KS, Reno County, KS, Riley County, KS, Sedgwick County, KS, Shawnee County, KS, Sumner County, KS, Wabaunsee County, KS, Wilson County, KS, Woodson County, KS, Wyandotte County, KS, Adair County, MO, Andrew County, MO, Audrain County, MO, Barton County, MO, Bates County, MO, Benton County, MO, Boone County, MO, Buchanan County, MO, Caldwell County, MO, Carroll County, MO, Cass County, MO, Cedar County, MO, Chariton County, MO, Clark County, MO, Clay County, MO, Clinton County, MO, Cooper County, MO, Daviess County, MO, DeKalb County, MO, Gentry County, MO, Grundy County, MO, Harrison County, MO, Henry County, MO, Holt County, MO, Howard County, MO, Jackson County, MO, Johnson County, MO, Knox County, MO, Lafayette County, MO, Lewis County, MO, Linn County, MO, Livingston County, MO, Macon County, MO, Marion County, MO, Mercer County, MO, Moniteau County, MO, Monroe County, MO, Morgan County, MO, Nodaway County, MO, Pettis County, MO, Pike County, MO, Platte County, MO, Putnam County, MO, Ralls County, MO, Randolph County, MO, Ray County, MO, Saline County, MO, Schuyler County, MO, Scotland County, MO, Shelby County, MO, St. Clair County, MO, Sullivan County, MO, Vernon County, MO, Worth County, MO

The radar

The Pleasant Hill radar (KEAX), 98 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:26 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
5%
One or more EF2 to EF5 tornadoes
2%
Ten or more severe wind reports
40%
One or more gusts of 65 knots or more
10%
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
90%

Warnings issued inside it

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
May 13, 4:00 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTOPLyon, Morris24 min
May 13, 4:12 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTOPDouglas, Osage, Shawnee, Wabaunsee48 min
May 13, 4:44 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTOPDouglas, Franklin, Osage46 min
May 13, 5:05 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningICTButler55 min
May 13, 5:09 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningICTSedgwick36 min
May 13, 5:13 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningICTHarper, Kingman, Sumner46 min
May 13, 5:32 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningICTButler43 min
May 13, 5:37 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningICTButler, Cowley, Elk, Greenwood38 min
May 13, 5:42 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningICTSumner48 min
May 13, 5:56 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningICTCowley, Sumner64 min
May 13, 6:04 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningICTElk, Greenwood, Wilson, Woodson41 min
May 13, 6:08 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningICTSumner37 min
May 13, 6:27 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningICTCowley39 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 12:00Z, 6.4 hours before the alert went out and 155 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, Topeka, KS at 12:00Z on 2016-05-13Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 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, Topeka, KS at 12:00Z on 2016-05-13The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 140 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 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
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
2012 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
39 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
140 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
283 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

SPC that day

Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
May 13, 12:52 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCAdams, Hancock, Henderson, McDonough, Warren113 min
May 13, 1:40 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCBarber, Clark, Comanche, Edwards, Harper, Kingman and 3 more2 hr
May 13, 3:28 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPCBarber, Clark, Comanche, Meade8 hr
May 13, 5:14 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCAllen, Anderson, Bourbon, Butler, Chase, Coffey and 14 more2 hr

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Watches in Missouri, 2016Severe Thunderstorm Watches in Kansas, 2016Severe Thunderstorm Watches in Iowa, 2016Every severe thunderstorm watch in 2016

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.