Alert archive / Missouri / Severe Thunderstorm Watches in 2016
Severe Thunderstorm Watch 353
The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at Jul 7, 2016, 8:21 PM CDT for 26 counties in Kansas; 43 counties in Missouri. It was in force for 6 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 7, 2016, 8:21 PM CDT (01:21 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 8, 2016, 2:00 AM CDT
- In force
- 6 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
- Largest hail expected
- 2 in
- Strongest gust expected
- 60 kt
All 69 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, Crawford County, KS, Douglas County, KS, Elk County, KS, Franklin County, KS, Greenwood County, KS, Johnson 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, Wilson County, KS, Woodson County, KS, Wyandotte County, KS, Audrain County, MO, Barry County, MO, Barton County, MO, Bates County, MO, Benton County, MO, Boone County, MO, Callaway County, MO, Camden County, MO, Cass County, MO, Cedar County, MO, Christian County, MO, Cole County, MO, Cooper County, MO, Dade County, MO, Dallas County, MO, Douglas County, MO, Greene County, MO, Henry County, MO, Hickory County, MO, Howard County, MO, Jackson County, MO, Jasper County, MO, Johnson County, MO, Laclede County, MO, Lafayette County, MO, Lawrence County, MO, Maries County, MO, McDonald County, MO, Miller County, MO, Moniteau County, MO, Morgan County, MO, Newton County, MO, Osage County, MO, Ozark County, MO, Pettis County, MO, Polk County, MO, Saline County, MO, St. Clair County, MO, Stone County, MO, Taney County, MO, Vernon County, MO, Webster County, MO, Wright County, MO
The radar
The Pleasant Hill radar (KEAX), 71 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:22 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
- 40%
- One or more gusts of 65 knots or more
- 10%
- Ten or more severe hail reports
- 60%
- One or more hailstones of 2 inches or more
- 30%
- Six or more combined severe hail and wind reports
- 80%
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 7, 8:40 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ICT | Chase, Greenwood | 50 min |
| Jul 7, 9:06 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ICT | Butler, Greenwood | 39 min |
| Jul 7, 9:20 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Anderson, Coffey | 40 min |
| Jul 7, 9:34 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Butler, Chase, Greenwood | 56 min |
| Jul 7, 9:44 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ICT | Elk, Greenwood | 46 min |
| Jul 7, 10:24 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Butler, Greenwood | 66 min |
| Jul 7, 10:27 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ICT | Elk, Greenwood, Wilson, Woodson | 48 min |
| Jul 7, 11:02 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Allen, Neosho | 43 min |
| Jul 7, 11:06 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | Bourbon, Crawford | 54 min |
| Jul 7, 11:12 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Allen, Labette, Montgomery, Neosho, Wilson | 48 min |
| Jul 7, 11:24 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | Barton, Vernon | 66 min |
| Jul 7, 11:40 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | Barton, Vernon | 65 min |
| Jul 7, 11:48 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | Cherokee, Crawford | 57 min |
| Jul 8, 12:04 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | Barton, Jasper | 56 min |
| Jul 8, 12:08 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | Cedar, Dade | 52 min |
| Jul 8, 12:29 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | Barry, Lawrence, Newton | 61 min |
| Jul 8, 12:41 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | Greene, Polk | 64 min |
| Jul 8, 12:58 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | Barry, Christian, McDonald, Stone, Taney | 62 min |
| Jul 8, 1:05 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | SGF | Cherokee | 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
Topeka, KS (KFOE), launched 00:00Z, 1.4 hours before the alert went out and 88 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
- 3276 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -14 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1220 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 41 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 14 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 46 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- -0.0
- Supercell composite
- -0.2
SPC that day
Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 7, 8:01 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Allen, Anderson, Bourbon, Chase, Coffey, Crawford and 16 more | 119 min |
| Jul 7, 11:01 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Allen, Anderson, Bourbon, Butler, Cherokee, Coffey and 10 more | 119 min |
| Jul 8, 3:27 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Hamilton | 93 min |
| Jul 8, 5:31 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Cheyenne, Rawlins, Sherman | 59 min |
| Jul 8, 1:45 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Howell, Oregon, Ozark, Ripley | 90 min |
| Jul 8, 1:59 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Bollinger, Butler, Cape Girardeau, Carter, Dent, Douglas and 19 more | 2 hr |
| Jul 8, 2:26 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Butler, Carter, Douglas, Dunklin, Howell, Mississippi and 11 more | 5 hr |
| Jul 8, 4:42 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Butler, Carter, Dunklin, Mississippi, New Madrid, Oregon and 5 more | 63 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.