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Severe Thunderstorm Watch 202

May 24, 201642 counties in Kansas

The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at May 24, 2016, 12:08 AM CDT for 42 counties in Kansas. It was in force for 7 hr.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued
May 24, 2016, 12:08 AM CDT (05:08 UTC)
Expired
May 24, 2016, 7:00 AM CDT
In force
7 hr
Issued by
the Storm Prediction Center
Largest hail expected
2.5 in
Strongest gust expected
60 kt
All 42 counties

Barton County, KS, Clay County, KS, Cloud County, KS, Dickinson County, KS, Ellis County, KS, Ellsworth County, KS, Geary County, KS, Gove County, KS, Graham County, KS, Harvey County, KS, Jewell County, KS, Lane County, KS, Lincoln County, KS, Logan County, KS, Marion County, KS, Marshall County, KS, McPherson County, KS, Mitchell County, KS, Morris County, KS, Nemaha County, KS, Ness County, KS, Osborne County, KS, Ottawa County, KS, Pawnee County, KS, Phillips County, KS, Pottawatomie County, KS, Reno County, KS, Republic County, KS, Rice County, KS, Riley County, KS, Rooks County, KS, Rush County, KS, Russell County, KS, Saline County, KS, Scott County, KS, Sheridan County, KS, Smith County, KS, Stafford County, KS, Thomas County, KS, Trego County, KS, Wabaunsee County, KS, Washington County, KS

The radar

The Grand Island radar (KUEX), 155 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 05:09 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
10%
One or more EF2 to EF5 tornadoes
2%
Ten or more severe wind reports
50%
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
30%
Six or more combined severe hail and wind reports
80%

Warnings issued inside it

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
May 24, 12:12 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningICTRussell17 min
May 24, 12:15 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGIDOsborne, Smith45 min
May 24, 12:16 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGLDGove, Graham, Sheridan44 min
May 24, 12:23 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGIDJewell52 min
May 24, 12:26 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGIDRooks49 min
May 24, 12:26 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGLDGove, Logan, Thomas49 min
May 24, 12:41 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGLDGraham16 min
May 24, 12:54 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGIDJewell, Mitchell, Osborne, Phillips, Rooks, Smith51 min
May 24, 1:00 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGLDGraham45 min
May 24, 1:01 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCEllis44 min
May 24, 1:07 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGIDOsborne, Rooks38 min
May 24, 1:10 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningICTRussell65 min
May 24, 1:13 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningGLDGraham, Sheridan3 hr
May 24, 1:15 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGLDSheridan, Thomas30 min
May 24, 1:24 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGIDPhillips, Rooks51 min
May 24, 1:30 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGLDGraham, Sheridan30 min
May 24, 1:39 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGIDOsborne, Rooks51 min
May 24, 1:42 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGIDJewell, Mitchell, Osborne, Smith48 min
May 24, 1:42 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGLDSheridan, Thomas23 min
May 24, 2:07 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGIDPhillips, Rooks23 min
May 24, 2:15 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGIDMitchell, Osborne45 min
May 24, 2:33 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGLDGraham27 min
May 24, 2:37 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGIDRooks38 min
May 24, 3:21 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTOPClay, Riley26 min
May 24, 4:00 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningGIDRooks6 hr
May 24, 4:18 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningGLDGraham, Sheridan5 hr
May 24, 4:41 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCEllis25 min
May 24, 4:44 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningICTRussell61 min
May 24, 4:46 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGIDMitchell, Osborne, Rooks44 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 00:00Z, 5.1 hours before the alert went out and 165 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 00:00Z on 2016-05-24Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 2915 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 00:00Z on 2016-05-24The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 132 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
2915 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-2 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1153 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
46 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
132 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
179 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
2.1
Supercell composite
15.2

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SPC that day

Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
May 23, 11:22 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCClark83 min
May 23, 11:51 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCBarton, Butler, Cloud, Dickinson, Edwards, Ellis and 31 more114 min
May 24, 3:08 AM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCClay, Cloud, Graham, Lincoln, Mitchell, Norton and 4 more67 min
May 24, 2:31 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCClark, Comanche, Finney, Ford, Gray, Haskell and 7 more119 min
May 24, 3:22 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCBarber, Clark, Comanche, Edwards, Ellis, Finney and 21 more9 hr
May 24, 6:14 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCClark, Comanche, Edwards, Finney, Ford, Gove and 11 more91 min
May 24, 6:46 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCCheyenne, Rawlins, Sherman, Thomas, Wallace89 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.