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Severe Thunderstorm Watch 377
The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at Jul 13, 2016, 8:07 AM CDT for 31 counties in Kansas; 11 counties in Missouri. It was in force for 5 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 13, 2016, 8:07 AM CDT (13:07 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 13, 2016, 1:14 PM CDT
- In force
- 5 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
- Largest hail expected
- 1.5 in
- Strongest gust expected
- 60 kt
All 42 counties
Allen County, KS, Anderson County, KS, Atchison County, KS, Bourbon County, KS, Brown County, KS, Chase County, KS, Clay County, KS, Coffey County, KS, Doniphan County, KS, Douglas County, KS, Franklin County, KS, Geary County, KS, Greenwood County, KS, Jackson County, KS, Jefferson County, KS, Johnson County, KS, Leavenworth County, KS, Linn County, KS, Lyon County, KS, Marshall County, KS, Miami County, KS, Morris County, KS, Nemaha County, KS, Osage County, KS, Pottawatomie County, KS, Riley County, KS, Shawnee County, KS, Wabaunsee County, KS, Washington County, KS, Woodson County, KS, Wyandotte County, KS, Andrew County, MO, Bates County, MO, Buchanan County, MO, Cass County, MO, Clay County, MO, Clinton County, MO, DeKalb County, MO, Holt County, MO, Jackson County, MO, Platte County, MO, Vernon County, MO
The radar
The Topeka radar (KTWX), 8 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 13:10 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
- 30%
- One or more gusts of 65 knots or more
- 20%
- Ten or more severe hail reports
- 20%
- One or more hailstones of 2 inches or more
- 10%
- 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 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 |
| Jul 13, 8:48 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Marshall, Nemaha, Pottawatomie | 42 min |
| Jul 13, 8:54 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Jackson, Pottawatomie, Riley, Shawnee, Wabaunsee | 66 min |
| Jul 13, 9:26 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Brown, Jackson, Nemaha | 49 min |
| Jul 13, 9:36 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Douglas, Jefferson, Osage, Shawnee | 39 min |
| Jul 13, 9:39 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Atchison, Doniphan | 36 min |
| Jul 13, 10:02 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Atchison, Doniphan, Leavenworth | 28 min |
| Jul 13, 10:05 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Johnson, Leavenworth, Miami | 25 min |
| Jul 13, 10:25 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Atchison, Doniphan, Johnson, Leavenworth, Wyandotte | 35 min |
| Jul 13, 10:41 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Johnson, Wyandotte | 34 min |
| Jul 13, 11:05 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Cass, Clay, Jackson, Johnson, Lafayette, Ray | 25 min |
| Jul 13, 11:27 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Carroll, Cass, Jackson, Johnson, Lafayette, Pettis and 2 more | 48 min |
| Jul 13, 11:30 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | Bourbon | 45 min |
| Jul 13, 12:15 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | Barton, Cedar, Dade, Hickory, Polk, St. Clair and 1 more | 60 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 12:00Z, 1.1 hours before the alert went out and 44 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
- 1665 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -200 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1180 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 26 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 304 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 265 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 1.6
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, 3:25 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Barton, Cheyenne, Decatur, Dickinson, Ellis, Ellsworth and 28 more | 7 hr |
| Jul 13, 6:40 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Chase, Coffey, Dickinson, Douglas, Ellsworth, Franklin and 12 more | 95 min |
| Jul 13, 6:57 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Allen, Bourbon, Butler, Chautauqua, Cherokee, Cowley and 9 more | 3 hr |
| Jul 13, 10:33 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Adair, Boone, Caldwell, Carroll, Chariton, Cooper and 23 more | 117 min |
| Jul 13, 11:14 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Adair, Audrain, Benton, Boone, Caldwell, Callaway and 56 more | 5 hr |
| Jul 13, 2:10 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Sainte Genevieve, City of Saint Louis | 65 min |
| Jul 13, 2:37 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Bollinger, Cape Girardeau, Iron, Madison, Perry, Reynolds and 2 more | 5 hr |
| Jul 13, 5:08 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Bollinger, Butler, Cape Girardeau, Carter, Crawford, Dent and 18 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.