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Severe Thunderstorm Watch 330
The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at Jul 5, 2016, 9:11 PM CDT for 29 counties in Kansas. It was in force for 7 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 5, 2016, 9:11 PM CDT (02:11 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 6, 2016, 4:00 AM CDT
- In force
- 7 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
- Largest hail expected
- 2 in
- Strongest gust expected
- 60 kt
All 29 counties
Barber County, KS, Barton County, KS, Comanche County, KS, Edwards County, KS, Ellis County, KS, Ellsworth County, KS, Gove County, KS, Harper County, KS, Harvey County, KS, Hodgeman County, KS, Kingman County, KS, Kiowa County, KS, Lane County, KS, Lincoln County, KS, Logan County, KS, McPherson County, KS, Ness County, KS, Pawnee County, KS, Pratt County, KS, Reno County, KS, Rice County, KS, Rush County, KS, Russell County, KS, Saline County, KS, Scott County, KS, Sedgwick County, KS, Stafford County, KS, Sumner County, KS, Trego County, KS
The radar
The Dodge City radar (KDDC), 127 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 02:13 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
- 10%
- One or more EF2 to EF5 tornadoes
- 2%
- 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
- 60%
Warnings issued inside it
15 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 5, 9:58 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Gove, Logan, Sheridan, Thomas | 47 min |
| Jul 5, 9:59 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Ellis, Trego | 46 min |
| Jul 5, 10:38 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Gove | 37 min |
| Jul 5, 10:47 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Lane, Ness, Trego | 47 min |
| Jul 5, 10:56 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | DDC | Trego | 6 hr |
| Jul 5, 11:20 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Edwards, Ellis, Finney, Ford, Hodgeman, Kiowa and 5 more | 44 min |
| Jul 5, 11:56 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Edwards, Hodgeman, Pawnee, Pratt, Rush, Stafford | 64 min |
| Jul 6, 12:00 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Barton | 45 min |
| Jul 6, 12:24 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Russell | 51 min |
| Jul 6, 12:31 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Lincoln | 44 min |
| Jul 6, 12:38 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Barton | 52 min |
| Jul 6, 1:00 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Ellsworth, Lincoln, Reno, Rice, Saline | 45 min |
| Jul 6, 1:23 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Harvey, McPherson, Marion, Reno, Saline | 52 min |
| Jul 6, 2:04 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Butler, Chase, Harvey, Marion, Sedgwick | 56 min |
| Jul 6, 2:29 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Butler, Cowley, Sedgwick, Sumner | 31 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
Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 00:00Z, 2.2 hours before the alert went out and 125 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
- 2520 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -35 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 2160 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 32 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 42 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 140 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 7.5
SPC that day
Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 5, 7:31 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Clay, Cloud, Decatur, Ellis, Ellsworth, Gove and 17 more | 119 min |
| Jul 5, 11:20 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Barber, Barton, Butler, Clark, Cloud, Comanche and 36 more | 115 min |
| Jul 6, 1:50 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Allen, Anderson, Barber, Barton, Bourbon, Butler and 33 more | 85 min |
| Jul 6, 2:19 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Allen, Anderson, Bourbon, Butler, Chase, Chautauqua and 22 more | 7 hr |
| Jul 6, 3:47 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Barber, Comanche, Edwards, Harper, Hodgeman, Kingman and 7 more | 58 min |
| Jul 6, 3:21 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Cheyenne, Rawlins | 54 min |
| Jul 6, 3:49 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Cheyenne, Decatur, Graham, Norton, Phillips, Rawlins and 4 more | 8 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.