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Severe Thunderstorm Watch 212

May 25, 201624 counties in Kansas; 29 counties in Missouri

The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at May 25, 2016, 11:08 PM CDT for 24 counties in Kansas; 29 counties in Missouri. It was in force for 5 hr.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued
May 25, 2016, 11:08 PM CDT (04:08 UTC)
Expired
May 26, 2016, 4:00 AM CDT
In force
5 hr
Issued by
the Storm Prediction Center
Largest hail expected
2 in
Strongest gust expected
60 kt
All 53 counties

Anderson County, KS, Atchison County, KS, Brown County, KS, Clay County, KS, Coffey County, KS, Dickinson County, KS, Doniphan County, KS, Geary 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, Pottawatomie County, KS, Republic County, KS, Riley County, KS, Wabaunsee County, KS, Washington County, KS, Wyandotte County, KS, Andrew County, MO, Atchison County, MO, Bates County, MO, Buchanan County, MO, Caldwell County, MO, Carroll County, MO, Cass County, MO, Chariton County, MO, Clay County, MO, Clinton County, MO, Daviess County, MO, DeKalb County, MO, Gentry County, MO, Grundy County, MO, Harrison County, MO, Henry County, MO, Holt County, MO, Jackson County, MO, Johnson County, MO, Lafayette County, MO, Linn County, MO, Livingston County, MO, Mercer County, MO, Nodaway County, MO, Pettis County, MO, Platte County, MO, Ray County, MO, Saline County, MO, Worth County, MO

The radar

The Topeka radar (KTWX), 86 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 04:08 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
2%
Ten or more severe wind reports
30%
One or more gusts of 65 knots or more
10%
Ten or more severe hail reports
50%
One or more hailstones of 2 inches or more
30%
Six or more combined severe hail and wind reports
70%

Warnings issued inside it

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
May 25, 11:42 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEAXDoniphan48 min
May 25, 11:49 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEAXAtchison, Nodaway26 min
May 26, 12:28 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEAXAndrew, Buchanan, DeKalb47 min
May 26, 2:24 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTOPJackson34 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, 4.1 hours before the alert went out and 67 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 00:00Z on 2016-05-26Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1565 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, Topeka, KS at 00:00Z on 2016-05-26The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 92 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 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
1565 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-119 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1239 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
36 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
92 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
192 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.5
Supercell composite
11.3

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SPC that day

Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
May 25, 7:05 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCAllen, Anderson, Barton, Butler, Chase, Chautauqua and 28 more115 min
May 25, 10:07 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCAllen, Anderson, Atchison, Butler, Chase, Coffey and 23 more83 min
May 25, 11:12 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPCDouglas, Franklin, Osage, Shawnee5 hr
May 26, 10:33 AM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCAtchison, Brown, Doniphan, Douglas, Franklin, Jackson and 13 more57 min
May 26, 1:08 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCButler, Chase, Chautauqua, Clay, Cloud, Coffey and 28 more2 hr
May 26, 1:13 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCClark, Comanche, Edwards, Ford, Gray, Hodgeman and 3 more2 hr
May 26, 1:31 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCAnderson, Barber, Barton, Brown, Butler, Chase and 51 more10 hr
May 26, 1:53 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCCheyenne, Decatur, Gove, Graham, Greeley, Jewell and 13 more8 hr
May 26, 2:09 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCAtchison, Doniphan, Johnson, Leavenworth, Linn, Miami and 1 more8 hr
May 26, 3:23 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCCheyenne, Greeley, Logan, Sherman, Thomas, Wallace and 1 more2 hr
May 26, 4:56 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCWyandotte94 min
May 26, 5:55 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCAnderson, Barber, Barton, Butler, Chase, Clark and 25 more95 min
May 26, 6:46 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCCheyenne, Decatur, Logan, Rawlins, Sheridan, Sherman and 2 more59 min
May 26, 1:45 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCNew Madrid, Pemiscot2 hr
May 26, 5:27 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCAtchison, Nodaway, Worth63 min
May 26, 5:29 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPCAudrain, Benton, Boone, Callaway, Camden, Cole and 15 more6 hr
May 25, 7:23 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCDawson, Frontier, Furnas, Gosper, Hayes, Hitchcock and 3 more97 min
May 25, 8:36 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPCAdams, Antelope, Boone, Buffalo, Burt, Butler and 41 more5 hr
May 25, 11:34 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCBurt, Butler, Cass, Colfax, Cuming, Dakota and 15 more86 min

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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.