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Severe Thunderstorm Watch 254
The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at Jun 14, 2016, 12:43 PM CDT for 4 states. It was in force for 8 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 14, 2016, 12:43 PM CDT (17:43 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 14, 2016, 9:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 8 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
- Largest hail expected
- 2.5 in
- Strongest gust expected
- 60 kt
All 79 counties
Adair County, IA, Adams County, IA, Audubon County, IA, Black Hawk County, IA, Boone County, IA, Bremer County, IA, Buena Vista County, IA, Butler County, IA, Calhoun County, IA, Carroll County, IA, Cass County, IA, Cerro Gordo County, IA, Cherokee County, IA, Clarke County, IA, Clay County, IA, Crawford County, IA, Dallas County, IA, Dickinson County, IA, Emmet County, IA, Franklin County, IA, Greene County, IA, Grundy County, IA, Guthrie County, IA, Hamilton County, IA, Hancock County, IA, Hardin County, IA, Harrison County, IA, Humboldt County, IA, Ida County, IA, Jasper County, IA, Kossuth County, IA, Lucas County, IA, Lyon County, IA, Madison County, IA, Marion County, IA, Marshall County, IA, Mills County, IA, Monona County, IA, Montgomery County, IA, O'Brien County, IA, Osceola County, IA, Palo Alto County, IA, Plymouth County, IA, Pocahontas County, IA, Polk County, IA, Pottawattamie County, IA, Sac County, IA, Shelby County, IA, Sioux County, IA, Story County, IA, Tama County, IA, Union County, IA, Warren County, IA, Webster County, IA, Winnebago County, IA, Woodbury County, IA, Worth County, IA, Wright County, IA, Cottonwood County, MN, Jackson County, MN, Lincoln County, MN, Lyon County, MN, Murray County, MN, Nobles County, MN, Pipestone County, MN, Rock County, MN, Burt County, NE, Cuming County, NE, Dakota County, NE, Dixon County, NE, Dodge County, NE, Douglas County, NE, Sarpy County, NE, Saunders County, NE, Thurston County, NE, Washington County, NE, Brookings County, SD, Moody County, SD, Union County, SD
The radar
The Des Moines radar (KDMX), 140 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 17:45 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
- 40%
- 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
19 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 14, 1:48 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | FSD | Cherokee, Lyon, O'Brien, Osceola, Plymouth, Sioux and 1 more | 3 hr |
| Jun 14, 1:53 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | FSD | Pipestone | 37 min |
| Jun 14, 1:56 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | FSD | Osceola | 34 min |
| Jun 14, 2:11 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | FSD | Buena Vista, Cherokee, Clay, Dickinson, Ida, O'Brien and 2 more | 34 min |
| Jun 14, 2:14 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | FSD | Osceola | 31 min |
| Jun 14, 2:23 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FSD | Clay, Dickinson | 37 min |
| Jun 14, 2:30 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | FSD | Dickinson | 30 min |
| Jun 14, 2:40 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FSD | Cottonwood, Jackson, Murray, Nobles | 35 min |
| Jun 14, 2:42 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | FSD | Buena Vista, Cherokee, Clay, Dickinson, Ida, O'Brien and 2 more | 2 hr |
| Jun 14, 2:45 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FSD | Cottonwood, Murray, Nobles | 30 min |
| Jun 14, 2:48 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FSD | Clay, Dickinson | 27 min |
| Jun 14, 3:03 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FSD | Cottonwood, Jackson | 27 min |
| Jun 14, 3:10 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | FSD | Cottonwood | 35 min |
| Jun 14, 3:15 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DMX | Emmet, Kossuth | 30 min |
| Jun 14, 3:20 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DMX | Emmet, Kossuth, Palo Alto | 40 min |
| Jun 14, 5:47 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | DMX | Cerro Gordo | 6 hr |
| Jun 14, 6:05 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DMX | Boone, Greene, Webster | 40 min |
| Jun 14, 6:17 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DMX | Boone, Greene | 43 min |
| Jun 14, 7:43 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DMX | Dallas | 47 min |
Discussions around it
SPC mesoscale discussions over the same counties from four hours before the watch to its end.
SPC that day
Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 14, 11:45 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Adair, Adams, Audubon, Benton, Black Hawk, Boone and 57 more | 2 hr |
| Jun 14, 2:51 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Adair, Adams, Audubon, Benton, Black Hawk, Boone and 59 more | 114 min |
| Jun 14, 3:49 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Allamakee, Benton, Black Hawk, Bremer, Buchanan, Cedar and 22 more | 56 min |
| Jun 14, 4:03 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Allamakee, Benton, Buchanan, Chickasaw, Clayton, Clinton and 10 more | 7 hr |
| Jun 14, 6:15 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Taylor | 3 hr |
| Jun 14, 6:24 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Allamakee, Buchanan, Cedar, Chickasaw, Clayton, Clinton and 14 more | 66 min |
| Jun 14, 2:33 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Big Stone, Blue Earth, Brown, Carver, Chippewa, Cottonwood and 32 more | 5 hr |
| Jun 14, 5:16 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Big Stone, Blue Earth, Carver, Chippewa, Dakota, Faribault and 20 more | 59 min |
| Jun 13, 7:00 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Arthur, Banner, Box Butte, Cherry, Cheyenne, Dawes and 13 more | 90 min |
| Jun 13, 8:30 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Arthur, Blaine, Box Butte, Brown, Cherry, Cheyenne and 11 more | 60 min |
| Jun 13, 11:26 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Blaine, Brown, Chase, Custer, Dawson, Dundy and 11 more | 2 hr |
| Jun 14, 3:31 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Blaine, Brown, Cherry, Garfield, Keya Paha, Loup and 1 more | 119 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.