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Severe Thunderstorm Watch 292
The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at Jun 23, 2016, 3:10 PM CDT for 27 counties in Kansas. It was in force for 6 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 23, 2016, 3:10 PM CDT (20:10 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 23, 2016, 8:52 PM CDT
- In force
- 6 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
- Largest hail expected
- 2 in
- Strongest gust expected
- 60 kt
All 27 counties
Allen County, KS, Anderson County, KS, Bourbon County, KS, Butler County, KS, Chase County, KS, Chautauqua County, KS, Cherokee County, KS, Coffey County, KS, Cowley County, KS, Crawford County, KS, Elk County, KS, Franklin County, KS, Greenwood County, KS, Harvey County, KS, Labette County, KS, Linn County, KS, Lyon County, KS, Marion County, KS, Miami County, KS, Montgomery County, KS, Morris County, KS, Neosho County, KS, Osage County, KS, Sedgwick County, KS, Sumner County, KS, Wilson County, KS, Woodson County, KS
The radar
The Wichita radar (KICT), 104 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:13 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
- 40%
- 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
- 60%
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 23, 3:11 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Butler | 64 min |
| Jun 23, 6:17 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | Cherokee, Crawford | 43 min |
| Jun 23, 6:49 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | Bourbon, Crawford | 41 min |
| Jun 23, 7:04 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | Crawford | 41 min |
| Jun 23, 7:13 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | SGF | Crawford | 6 hr |
| Jun 23, 7:27 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | Bourbon | 35 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 12:00Z, 8.2 hours before the alert went out and 122 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1821 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 20 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -37 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 45 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 1.6
SPC that day
Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 23, 12:40 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Allen, Anderson, Barber, Barton, Butler, Chase and 23 more | 2 hr |
| Jun 23, 6:15 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Allen, Anderson, Bourbon, Butler, Chautauqua, Cherokee and 17 more | 2 hr |
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.