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Severe Thunderstorm Watch 193

May 22, 201619 counties in Kansas; 10 counties in Nebraska

The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at May 22, 2016, 6:20 PM CDT for 19 counties in Kansas; 10 counties in Nebraska. It was in force for 6 hr.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued
May 22, 2016, 6:20 PM CDT (23:20 UTC)
Expired
May 23, 2016, 12:00 AM CDT
In force
6 hr
Issued by
the Storm Prediction Center
Largest hail expected
2 in
Strongest gust expected
60 kt
All 29 counties

Cheyenne County, KS, Decatur County, KS, Ford County, KS, Gove County, KS, Graham County, KS, Greeley County, KS, Hodgeman County, KS, Lane County, KS, Logan County, KS, Ness County, KS, Norton County, KS, Rawlins County, KS, Scott County, KS, Sheridan County, KS, Sherman County, KS, Thomas County, KS, Trego County, KS, Wallace County, KS, Wichita County, KS, Chase County, NE, Dawson County, NE, Dundy County, NE, Frontier County, NE, Furnas County, NE, Gosper County, NE, Hayes County, NE, Hitchcock County, NE, Perkins County, NE, Red Willow County, NE

The radar

The Goodland radar (KGLD), 78 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:23 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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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
10%
Ten or more severe wind reports
20%
One or more gusts of 65 knots or more
20%
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
50%

Warnings issued inside it

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
May 22, 6:44 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCFinney, Scott46 min
May 22, 6:57 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGLDLogan44 min
May 22, 7:30 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCFinney, Kearny, Scott45 min
May 22, 7:33 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGLDWichita42 min
May 22, 7:43 PM CDTTornado WarningDDCFinney, Kearny, Scott32 min
May 22, 7:54 PM CDTTornado WarningGLDWichita36 min
May 22, 8:09 PM CDTTornado WarningDDCFinney, Kearny, Scott36 min
May 22, 8:14 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGLDWichita31 min
May 22, 8:28 PM CDTTornado Warning Tornado observedConsiderable damage threatGLDWichita20 min
May 22, 8:45 PM CDTTornado Warning Considerable damage threatDDCFinney, Kearny, Scott30 min
May 22, 9:07 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGLDWichita38 min
May 22, 9:14 PM CDTTornado WarningDDCFinney, Scott31 min
May 22, 9:41 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCScott49 min
May 22, 9:44 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGLDWichita61 min
May 22, 10:33 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCScott23 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

Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 12:00Z, 11.3 hours before the alert went out and 176 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, Dodge City, at 12:00Z on 2016-05-22Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1854 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 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, Dodge City, at 12:00Z on 2016-05-22The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 241 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
1854 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-82 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
507 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
15 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
241 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
356 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
May 21, 9:02 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCGove, Logan, Scott, Thomas, Wallace, Wichita58 min
May 22, 1:39 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCFinney, Grant, Gray, Haskell, Meade, Morton and 2 more2 hr
May 22, 2:48 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCFinney, Grant, Gray, Haskell, Kearny, Meade and 2 more9 hr
May 22, 5:45 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCCheyenne, Logan, Rawlins, Sherman, Thomas, Wallace and 1 more2 hr
May 22, 2:54 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCArthur, Blaine, Brown, Chase, Cherry, Dundy and 13 more96 min
May 22, 3:20 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCArthur, Blaine, Brown, Cherry, Custer, Deuel and 10 more7 hr
May 22, 6:35 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCArthur, Cherry, Deuel, Garden, Grant, Hooker and 8 more115 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.