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Severe Thunderstorm Watch 294
The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at Jun 23, 2016, 6:38 PM CDT for 30 counties in Missouri. It was in force for 5 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 23, 2016, 6:38 PM CDT (23:38 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 23, 2016, 11:39 PM CDT
- In force
- 5 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
- Largest hail expected
- 1.5 in
- Strongest gust expected
- 60 kt
All 30 counties
Barry County, MO, Barton County, MO, Benton County, MO, Camden County, MO, Cedar County, MO, Christian County, MO, Dade County, MO, Dallas County, MO, Douglas County, MO, Greene County, MO, Hickory County, MO, Howell County, MO, Jasper County, MO, Laclede County, MO, Lawrence County, MO, Maries County, MO, Miller County, MO, Morgan County, MO, Newton County, MO, Ozark County, MO, Phelps County, MO, Polk County, MO, Pulaski County, MO, St. Clair County, MO, Stone County, MO, Taney County, MO, Texas County, MO, Vernon County, MO, Webster County, MO, Wright County, MO
The radar
The Springfield radar (KSGF), 45 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:39 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
- 5%
- One or more EF2 to EF5 tornadoes
- 2%
- Ten or more severe wind reports
- 40%
- One or more gusts of 65 knots or more
- 20%
- Ten or more severe hail reports
- 30%
- One or more hailstones of 2 inches or more
- 10%
- Six or more combined severe hail and wind reports
- 60%
Warnings issued inside it
10 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 23, 6:39 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | Christian, Greene | 51 min |
| Jun 23, 6:57 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | Christian | 34 min |
| Jun 23, 7:04 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | Barton | 41 min |
| Jun 23, 7:13 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | SGF | Barton | 6 hr |
| Jun 23, 7:27 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | Vernon | 35 min |
| Jun 23, 7:47 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | Barton, Jasper | 24 min |
| Jun 23, 8:17 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | Dade | 24 min |
| Jun 23, 8:45 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | Polk | 30 min |
| Jun 23, 9:10 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | Camden, Dallas, Hickory | 36 min |
| Jun 23, 9:32 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | SGF | Douglas, Howell, Texas, Wright | 6 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, 11.6 hours before the alert went out and 91 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
- 2211 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -76 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 987 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 13 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 154 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 270 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 23, 3:10 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Bates, Henry | 6 hr |
| Jun 23, 6:15 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Barry, Barton, Bates, Cass, Cedar, Dade and 10 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.