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Severe Thunderstorm Watch 218
The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at May 26, 2016, 5:29 PM CDT for 21 counties in Missouri. It was in force for 6 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- May 26, 2016, 5:29 PM CDT (22:29 UTC)
- Expired
- May 26, 2016, 11:31 PM CDT
- In force
- 6 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
- Largest hail expected
- 2.5 in
- Strongest gust expected
- 60 kt
All 21 counties
Audrain County, MO, Benton County, MO, Boone County, MO, Callaway County, MO, Camden County, MO, Cole County, MO, Crawford County, MO, Dent County, MO, Gasconade County, MO, Laclede County, MO, Maries County, MO, Miller County, MO, Moniteau County, MO, Monroe County, MO, Montgomery County, MO, Morgan County, MO, Osage County, MO, Phelps County, MO, Pulaski County, MO, Shannon County, MO, Texas County, MO
The radar
The St Louis radar (KLSX), 151 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:29 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
- 10%
- Ten or more severe wind reports
- 30%
- One or more gusts of 65 knots or more
- 10%
- Ten or more severe hail reports
- 40%
- One or more hailstones of 2 inches or more
- 30%
- Six or more combined severe hail and wind reports
- 70%
Warnings issued inside it
6 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 26, 6:28 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | Morgan | 19 min |
| May 26, 6:35 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | Miller | 40 min |
| May 26, 8:10 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | SGF | Benton | 5 hr |
| May 26, 8:17 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | SGF | Miller | 5 hr |
| May 26, 8:39 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | Cole | 26 min |
| May 26, 8:44 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | SGF | Miller, Morgan | 5 hr |
Discussions around it
SPC mesoscale discussions over the same counties from four hours before the watch to its end.
The nearest sounding before it
Springfield, MO (KSGF), launched 12:00Z, 10.5 hours before the alert went out and 229 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
- 2996 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -23 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 631 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 33 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 250 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 232 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 2.4
- Supercell composite
- 13.5
SPC that day
Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 25, 10:07 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Andrew, Buchanan, Cass, Clay, Jackson, Platte | 83 min |
| May 25, 11:08 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Andrew, Atchison, Bates, Buchanan, Caldwell, Carroll and 23 more | 5 hr |
| May 26, 10:33 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Atchison, Buchanan, Cass, Clay, Holt, Jackson and 2 more | 57 min |
| May 26, 1:45 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | New Madrid, Pemiscot | 2 hr |
| May 26, 2:09 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Andrew, Atchison, Bates, Buchanan, Caldwell, Carroll and 25 more | 8 hr |
| May 26, 4:56 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Benton, Boone, Caldwell, Callaway, Camden, Carroll and 22 more | 94 min |
| May 26, 5:27 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Atchison, Nodaway, Worth | 63 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.