Alert archive / Missouri / Severe Thunderstorm Watches in 2016
Severe Thunderstorm Watch 345
The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at Jul 7, 2016, 1:37 AM CDT for 4 states. It was in force for 6 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 7, 2016, 1:37 AM CDT (06:37 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 7, 2016, 7:23 AM CDT
- In force
- 6 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
- Largest hail expected
- 1.5 in
- Strongest gust expected
- 60 kt
All 89 counties
Adams County, IA, Appanoose County, IA, Clarke County, IA, Davis County, IA, Decatur County, IA, Fremont County, IA, Lucas County, IA, Mills County, IA, Monroe County, IA, Montgomery County, IA, Page County, IA, Pottawattamie County, IA, Ringgold County, IA, Taylor County, IA, Union County, IA, Wapello County, IA, Wayne County, IA, Atchison County, KS, Brown County, KS, Clay County, KS, Cloud County, KS, Doniphan County, KS, Douglas County, KS, Franklin County, KS, Jackson County, KS, Jefferson County, KS, Johnson County, KS, Leavenworth County, KS, Marshall County, KS, Miami County, KS, Nemaha County, KS, Osage County, KS, Pottawatomie County, KS, Republic County, KS, Riley County, KS, Shawnee County, KS, Washington County, KS, Wyandotte County, KS, Adair County, MO, Andrew County, MO, Atchison County, MO, Bates County, MO, Buchanan County, MO, Caldwell County, MO, Carroll County, MO, Cass County, MO, Chariton County, MO, Clay County, MO, Clinton County, MO, Cooper County, MO, Daviess County, MO, DeKalb County, MO, Gentry County, MO, Grundy County, MO, Harrison County, MO, Henry County, MO, Holt County, MO, Howard County, MO, Jackson County, MO, Johnson County, MO, Lafayette County, MO, Linn County, MO, Livingston County, MO, Macon County, MO, Mercer County, MO, Nodaway County, MO, Pettis County, MO, Platte County, MO, Putnam County, MO, Randolph County, MO, Ray County, MO, Saline County, MO, Schuyler County, MO, Sullivan County, MO, Worth County, MO, Cass County, NE, Douglas County, NE, Gage County, NE, Jefferson County, NE, Johnson County, NE, Lancaster County, NE, Nemaha County, NE, Otoe County, NE, Pawnee County, NE, Richardson County, NE, Saline County, NE, Sarpy County, NE, Saunders County, NE, Seward County, NE
The radar
The Omaha radar (KOAX), 147 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 06:38 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
- 5%
- Ten or more severe wind reports
- 50%
- One or more gusts of 65 knots or more
- 10%
- Ten or more severe hail reports
- 10%
- One or more hailstones of 2 inches or more
- 5%
- Six or more combined severe hail and wind reports
- 80%
Warnings issued inside it
26 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 7, 1:38 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OAX | Cass, Lancaster, Sarpy, Saunders | 37 min |
| Jul 7, 2:02 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OAX | Fremont, Mills, Pottawattamie | 43 min |
| Jul 7, 2:35 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OAX | Fremont | 40 min |
| Jul 7, 2:44 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OAX | Johnson, Nemaha, Otoe | 50 min |
| Jul 7, 2:51 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Atchison, Holt | 54 min |
| Jul 7, 2:52 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OAX | Johnson, Nemaha, Pawnee, Richardson | 53 min |
| Jul 7, 3:13 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OAX | Fremont, Page | 62 min |
| Jul 7, 3:21 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Brown | 24 min |
| Jul 7, 3:26 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Atchison, Doniphan | 49 min |
| Jul 7, 3:29 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Andrew, Holt, Nodaway | 31 min |
| Jul 7, 3:33 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DMX | Ringgold, Taylor | 42 min |
| Jul 7, 3:42 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Atchison, Holt | 18 min |
| Jul 7, 3:51 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Jackson, Pottawatomie, Shawnee | 39 min |
| Jul 7, 3:58 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Andrew, DeKalb, Gentry, Nodaway, Worth | 50 min |
| Jul 7, 4:14 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DMX | Adams, Ringgold, Taylor, Union | 46 min |
| Jul 7, 4:26 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Daviess, Grundy, Harrison, Livingston, Mercer | 64 min |
| Jul 7, 4:30 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Douglas, Jefferson, Osage, Shawnee, Wabaunsee | 45 min |
| Jul 7, 4:33 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Johnson, Leavenworth, Wyandotte | 42 min |
| Jul 7, 4:38 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Caldwell, Carroll, Clay, Clinton, Daviess, DeKalb and 2 more | 52 min |
| Jul 7, 4:59 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Douglas, Franklin, Osage | 61 min |
| Jul 7, 5:00 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Johnson, Miami | 45 min |
| Jul 7, 5:06 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Carroll, Chariton, Johnson, Lafayette, Linn, Livingston and 2 more | 54 min |
| Jul 7, 5:42 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Linn, Miami | 46 min |
| Jul 7, 5:45 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DMX | Mahaska, Wapello | 45 min |
| Jul 7, 5:52 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Chariton, Cooper, Howard, Johnson, Linn, Macon and 3 more | 68 min |
| Jul 7, 6:57 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Macon, Randolph | 16 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 00:00Z, 6.6 hours before the alert went out and 133 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
- 2437 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -140 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1750 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 28 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 20 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 1 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 1.3
SPC that day
Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 6, 7:38 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Buena Vista, Cherokee, Clay, Dickinson, Harrison, Ida and 7 more | 6 hr |
| Jul 7, 12:30 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Audubon, Benton, Black Hawk, Boone, Bremer, Buchanan and 51 more | 90 min |
| Jul 7, 12:47 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Adair, Audubon, Black Hawk, Boone, Bremer, Butler and 37 more | 4 hr |
| Jul 7, 1:22 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Decatur, Fremont, Page, Ringgold, Taylor, Wayne | 83 min |
| Jul 7, 3:52 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Allamakee, Black Hawk, Bremer, Buchanan, Chickasaw, Fayette and 8 more | 83 min |
| Jul 7, 4:27 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Adams, Appanoose, Clarke, Davis, Decatur, Lucas and 6 more | 93 min |
| Jul 7, 5:26 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Appanoose, Clarke, Davis, Decatur, Lucas, Monroe and 2 more | 2 hr |
| Jul 7, 6:01 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Des Moines, Henry, Jefferson, Lee, Van Buren | 6 hr |
| Jul 7, 8:10 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Des Moines, Lee | 95 min |
| Jul 7, 1:50 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Adair, Adams, Audubon, Boone, Buena Vista, Calhoun and 41 more | 115 min |
| Jul 7, 3:54 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Adair, Adams, Audubon, Boone, Buena Vista, Calhoun and 37 more | 5 hr |
| Jul 7, 6:30 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Adair, Adams, Audubon, Black Hawk, Boone, Bremer and 39 more | 2 hr |
| Jul 6, 9:28 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Norton | 2 hr |
| Jul 6, 9:47 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Jewell, Mitchell, Osborne, Phillips, Rooks, Smith | 5 hr |
| Jul 7, 2:31 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Jewell, Mitchell, Norton, Phillips, Republic, Smith | 89 min |
| Jul 7, 2:40 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Cheyenne, Decatur, Norton, Rawlins | 2 hr |
| Jul 7, 5:14 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Cheyenne, Decatur, Graham, Norton, Phillips, Rawlins and 1 more | 3 hr |
| Jul 7, 12:16 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Mississippi, New Madrid | 59 min |
| Jul 7, 12:39 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Mississippi | 4 hr |
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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.