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Severe Thunderstorm Watch 220
The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at May 26, 2016, 9:59 PM CDT for 23 counties in Kansas. It was in force for 4 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- May 26, 2016, 9:59 PM CDT (02:59 UTC)
- Expired
- May 27, 2016, 2:00 AM CDT
- In force
- 4 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
- Largest hail expected
- 2.5 in
- Strongest gust expected
- 60 kt
All 23 counties
Butler County, KS, Chase County, KS, Chautauqua County, KS, Clay County, KS, Cowley County, KS, Dickinson County, KS, Elk County, KS, Geary County, KS, Greenwood County, KS, Harper County, KS, Harvey County, KS, Kingman County, KS, Lyon County, KS, Marion County, KS, McPherson County, KS, Morris County, KS, Ottawa County, KS, Reno County, KS, Rice County, KS, Saline County, KS, Sedgwick County, KS, Sumner County, KS, Wabaunsee County, KS
The radar
The Wichita radar (KICT), 58 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 02:59 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
- 30%
- 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
- 70%
Warnings issued inside it
3 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 26, 10:35 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | TOP | Coffey, Franklin, Lyon, Osage | 3 hr |
| May 26, 11:14 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Sedgwick | 30 min |
| May 27, 1:13 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | ICT | Chase | 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
Topeka, KS (KTOP), launched 00:00Z, 3.0 hours before the alert went out and 183 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
- 4 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -478 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1114 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 49 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -83 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -34 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
SPC that day
Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 26, 8:52 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Allen, Barber, Butler, Chase, Coffey, Comanche and 20 more | 53 min |
| May 26, 9:17 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Ellis, Graham, Norton, Osborne, Phillips, Rooks and 2 more | 58 min |
| May 27, 1:02 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Barber, Barton, Butler, Chase, Chautauqua, Cowley and 15 more | 88 min |
| May 27, 2:32 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Barber, Barton, Butler, Chase, Chautauqua, Clark and 45 more | 7 hr |
| May 27, 5:00 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Lane, Ness, Pawnee, Rush, Scott, Wichita | 90 min |
| May 27, 5:13 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Butler, Chase, Chautauqua, Cowley, Elk, Geary and 8 more | 92 min |
| May 27, 5:41 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Brown, Doniphan | 64 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.