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Severe Thunderstorm Watch 376
The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at Jul 13, 2016, 3:25 AM CDT for 34 counties in Kansas. It was in force for 7 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 13, 2016, 3:25 AM CDT (08:25 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 13, 2016, 10:00 AM CDT
- In force
- 7 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
- Largest hail expected
- 2 in
- Strongest gust expected
- 60 kt
All 34 counties
Barton County, KS, Cheyenne County, KS, Decatur County, KS, Dickinson County, KS, Ellis County, KS, Ellsworth County, KS, Gove County, KS, Graham County, KS, Harvey County, KS, Lane County, KS, Lincoln County, KS, Logan County, KS, Marion County, KS, McPherson County, KS, Mitchell County, KS, Ness County, KS, Osborne County, KS, Ottawa County, KS, Pawnee County, KS, Rawlins County, KS, Reno County, KS, Rice County, KS, Rooks County, KS, Rush County, KS, Russell County, KS, Saline County, KS, Scott County, KS, Sheridan County, KS, Sherman County, KS, Stafford County, KS, Thomas County, KS, Trego County, KS, Wallace County, KS, Wichita County, KS
The radar
The Goodland radar (KGLD), 129 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 08:28 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
- 20%
- 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
- 70%
Warnings issued inside it
20 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 13, 3:52 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Gove, Logan, Sheridan, Thomas | 53 min |
| Jul 13, 3:58 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Graham, Sheridan | 47 min |
| Jul 13, 4:43 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Gove | 47 min |
| Jul 13, 4:44 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Graham | 46 min |
| Jul 13, 4:48 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Sherman, Thomas | 23 min |
| Jul 13, 4:51 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | GLD | Graham | 24 min |
| Jul 13, 4:52 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Ellis, Trego | 53 min |
| Jul 13, 5:01 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Lane, Ness, Trego | 44 min |
| Jul 13, 5:01 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Rooks | 59 min |
| Jul 13, 5:34 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Decatur, Norton | 24 min |
| Jul 13, 5:36 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Ellis, Rush, Trego | 54 min |
| Jul 13, 5:55 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Barton, Russell | 80 min |
| Jul 13, 6:27 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Mitchell, Osborne | 48 min |
| Jul 13, 6:29 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Ellsworth, Lincoln, Rice | 61 min |
| Jul 13, 7:01 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Cloud, Ottawa | 44 min |
| Jul 13, 7:05 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | McPherson, Marion, Saline | 52 min |
| Jul 13, 7:16 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Jewell, Mitchell | 29 min |
| Jul 13, 7:42 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Clay, Dickinson, Ottawa | 48 min |
| Jul 13, 8:10 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Clay, Dickinson, Geary, Pottawatomie, Riley, Wabaunsee | 50 min |
| Jul 13, 8:23 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Butler, Chase, Harvey, McPherson, Marion | 55 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, 8.4 hours before the alert went out and 157 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
- 1850 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -98 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1690 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 43 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -30 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 0 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- -0.0
- Supercell composite
- -1.1
SPC that day
Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 12, 8:27 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Anderson, Butler, Chase, Coffey, Douglas, Franklin and 14 more | 63 min |
| Jul 13, 2:33 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Ellis, Gove, Graham, Greeley, Lane, Logan and 7 more | 117 min |
| Jul 13, 6:40 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Chase, Coffey, Dickinson, Douglas, Ellsworth, Franklin and 12 more | 95 min |
| Jul 13, 8:07 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Allen, Anderson, Atchison, Bourbon, Brown, Chase and 25 more | 5 hr |
| Jul 13, 6:57 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Allen, Bourbon, Butler, Chautauqua, Cherokee, Cowley and 9 more | 3 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.