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Severe Thunderstorm Watch 208
The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at May 24, 2016, 10:09 PM CDT for 30 counties in Kansas; 12 counties in Missouri; 5 counties in Nebraska. It was in force for 6 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- May 24, 2016, 10:09 PM CDT (03:09 UTC)
- Expired
- May 25, 2016, 4:00 AM CDT
- In force
- 6 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
- Largest hail expected
- 1.5 in
- Strongest gust expected
- 60 kt
All 47 counties
Allen County, KS, Anderson County, KS, Atchison County, KS, Brown County, KS, Chase County, KS, Clay County, KS, Coffey County, KS, Doniphan County, KS, Douglas County, KS, Franklin County, KS, Geary County, KS, Greenwood County, KS, Jackson County, KS, Jefferson County, KS, Johnson County, KS, Leavenworth County, KS, Linn County, KS, Lyon County, KS, Marshall County, KS, Miami County, KS, Morris County, KS, Nemaha County, KS, Osage County, KS, Pottawatomie County, KS, Riley County, KS, Shawnee County, KS, Wabaunsee County, KS, Washington County, KS, Woodson County, KS, Wyandotte County, KS, Andrew County, MO, Atchison County, MO, Bates County, MO, Buchanan County, MO, Cass County, MO, Clay County, MO, Clinton County, MO, DeKalb County, MO, Holt County, MO, Jackson County, MO, Nodaway County, MO, Platte County, MO, Gage County, NE, Johnson County, NE, Nemaha County, NE, Pawnee County, NE, Richardson County, NE
The radar
The Topeka radar (KTWX), 40 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 03:10 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
- 20%
- One or more EF2 to EF5 tornadoes
- 5%
- Ten or more severe wind reports
- 60%
- One or more gusts of 65 knots or more
- 10%
- Ten or more severe hail reports
- 20%
- One or more hailstones of 2 inches or more
- 10%
- Six or more combined severe hail and wind reports
- 95%
Warnings issued inside it
7 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 24, 10:23 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Clay, Dickinson, Geary | 37 min |
| May 24, 10:27 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Clay, Cloud, Dickinson, Ottawa, Republic, Washington | 48 min |
| May 24, 10:55 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Butler, Chase, Harvey, Marion | 50 min |
| May 24, 10:55 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Clay, Dickinson, Geary, Morris, Pottawatomie, Riley and 1 more | 50 min |
| May 24, 11:04 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Marshall, Riley, Washington | 41 min |
| May 24, 11:22 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OAX | Gage, Jefferson, Pawnee | 23 min |
| May 24, 11:47 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OAX | Gage, Lancaster, Saline | 28 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, 3.2 hours before the alert went out and 25 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
- 1524 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -112 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1159 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 25 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 96 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 118 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.1
- Supercell composite
- 2.2
SPC that day
Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 24, 7:09 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Cheyenne, Rawlins, Sherman, Thomas | 6 hr |
| May 24, 7:15 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Barton, Ellsworth, Harper, Kingman, Reno, Rice | 30 min |
| May 24, 7:27 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Barton, Butler, Cloud, Cowley, Dickinson, Ellsworth and 19 more | 6 hr |
| May 24, 8:26 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Barber, Barton, Clark, Comanche, Edwards, Ellis and 15 more | 64 min |
| May 24, 9:49 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Allen, Anderson, Atchison, Barber, Barton, Bourbon and 55 more | 86 min |
| May 24, 11:37 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Edwards, Pawnee, Pratt, Rush, Stafford | 113 min |
| May 25, 2:47 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Butler, Chase, Cowley, Dickinson, Elk, Greenwood and 7 more | 118 min |
| May 25, 3:44 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Barton, Butler, Chase, Chautauqua, Clay, Cloud and 25 more | 9 hr |
| May 24, 9:02 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Cherry, Sheridan | 58 min |
| May 24, 10:43 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Adams, Buffalo, Custer, Dawson, Franklin, Frontier and 15 more | 92 min |
| May 24, 11:07 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Adams, Blaine, Buffalo, Custer, Dawson, Franklin and 17 more | 6 hr |
| May 24, 11:56 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Chase, Dundy, Hayes, Hitchcock, Lincoln | 64 min |
| May 25, 3:33 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Adams, Buffalo, Chase, Dawson, Franklin, Frontier and 8 more | 57 min |
| May 25, 2:52 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Arthur, Blaine, Boyd, Brown, Chase, Cherry and 16 more | 53 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.