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Severe Thunderstorm Watch 378
The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at Jul 13, 2016, 11:14 AM CDT for 5 counties in Illinois; 32 counties in Iowa; 62 counties in Missouri. It was in force for 5 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 13, 2016, 11:14 AM CDT (16:14 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 13, 2016, 4:38 PM CDT
- In force
- 5 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
- Largest hail expected
- 1.5 in
- Strongest gust expected
- 60 kt
All 99 counties
Appanoose County, IA, Benton County, IA, Cedar County, IA, Clarke County, IA, Davis County, IA, Decatur County, IA, Des Moines County, IA, Henry County, IA, Iowa County, IA, Jasper County, IA, Jefferson County, IA, Johnson County, IA, Jones County, IA, Keokuk County, IA, Lee County, IA, Linn County, IA, Louisa County, IA, Lucas County, IA, Mahaska County, IA, Marion County, IA, Marshall County, IA, Monroe County, IA, Muscatine County, IA, Polk County, IA, Poweshiek County, IA, Story County, IA, Tama County, IA, Van Buren County, IA, Wapello County, IA, Warren County, IA, Washington County, IA, Wayne County, IA, Adams County, IL, Brown County, IL, Calhoun County, IL, Hancock County, IL, Pike County, IL, Adair County, MO, Audrain County, MO, Benton County, MO, Boone County, MO, Caldwell County, MO, Callaway County, MO, Camden County, MO, Carroll County, MO, Cedar County, MO, Chariton County, MO, City of Saint Louis, MO, Clark County, MO, Cole County, MO, Cooper County, MO, Crawford County, MO, Dallas County, MO, Daviess County, MO, Franklin County, MO, Gasconade County, MO, Grundy County, MO, Harrison County, MO, Henry County, MO, Hickory County, MO, Howard County, MO, Jefferson County, MO, Johnson County, MO, Knox County, MO, Laclede County, MO, Lafayette County, MO, Lewis County, MO, Lincoln County, MO, Linn County, MO, Livingston County, MO, Macon County, MO, Maries County, MO, Marion County, MO, Mercer County, MO, Miller County, MO, Moniteau County, MO, Monroe County, MO, Montgomery County, MO, Morgan County, MO, Osage County, MO, Pettis County, MO, Phelps County, MO, Pike County, MO, Polk County, MO, Pulaski County, MO, Putnam County, MO, Ralls County, MO, Randolph County, MO, Ray County, MO, Saint Charles County, MO, Saint Louis County, MO, Saline County, MO, Schuyler County, MO, Scotland County, MO, Shelby County, MO, St. Clair County, MO, Sullivan County, MO, Warren County, MO, Washington County, MO
The radar
The Des Moines radar (KDMX), 173 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 16:12 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
- 20%
- Ten or more severe hail reports
- 30%
- One or more hailstones of 2 inches or more
- 10%
- Six or more combined severe hail and wind reports
- 70%
Warnings issued inside it
21 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 13, 11:27 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Carroll, Cass, Jackson, Johnson, Lafayette, Pettis and 2 more | 48 min |
| Jul 13, 11:58 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Carroll, Chariton, Cooper, Howard, Johnson, Lafayette and 3 more | 62 min |
| Jul 13, 12:10 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EAX | Carroll, Lafayette, Saline | 6 hr |
| Jul 13, 12:15 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | Barton, Cedar, Dade, Hickory, Polk, St. Clair and 1 more | 60 min |
| Jul 13, 12:18 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | Benton, Camden, Morgan, St. Clair | 57 min |
| Jul 13, 12:33 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EAX | Chariton, Howard, Randolph | 6 hr |
| Jul 13, 12:58 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Chariton, Cooper, Howard, Randolph | 32 min |
| Jul 13, 1:14 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | Benton, Camden, Dallas, Hickory, Laclede, Maries and 3 more | 61 min |
| Jul 13, 1:21 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DMX | Mahaska, Marion | 28 min |
| Jul 13, 1:28 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DVN | Iowa, Keokuk | 47 min |
| Jul 13, 1:40 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | Pike | 50 min |
| Jul 13, 1:59 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | Camden, Dent, Laclede, Maries, Miller, Phelps and 1 more | 61 min |
| Jul 13, 2:01 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DVN | Cedar, Iowa, Johnson, Louisa, Muscatine, Washington | 59 min |
| Jul 13, 2:06 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | Adams, Calhoun, Greene, Jersey, Macoupin, Madison and 3 more | 54 min |
| Jul 13, 2:21 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | Adams, Brown, Pike | 54 min |
| Jul 13, 2:22 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DVN | Henry, Jefferson | 53 min |
| Jul 13, 2:33 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | Crawford, Franklin, Gasconade, Jefferson, Washington | 57 min |
| Jul 13, 2:45 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DVN | Louisa, Muscatine | 60 min |
| Jul 13, 2:50 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DVN | Hancock, McDonough | 55 min |
| Jul 13, 2:58 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | Calhoun, Greene, Jersey, Macoupin, Madison, Monroe and 2 more | 62 min |
| Jul 13, 3:13 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | Iron, Jefferson, Reynolds, Sainte Genevieve, Saint Francois | 47 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
Davenport, (KDVN), launched 12:00Z, 4.2 hours before the alert went out and 226 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
- 834 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -52 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 940 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 32 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 61 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 98 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.2
- Supercell composite
- 0.4
SPC that day
Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 13, 2:03 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Clark, Crawford, Edgar, Vermilion | 87 min |
| Jul 13, 2:10 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Bond, Bureau, Cass, Christian, Clinton, DeWitt and 29 more | 65 min |
| Jul 13, 2:37 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Bond, Bureau, Cass, Champaign, Christian, Clark and 76 more | 5 hr |
| Jul 13, 5:08 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Alexander, Champaign, Christian, Clark, Clay, Clinton and 43 more | 2 hr |
| Jul 13, 7:34 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Buena Vista, Cerro Gordo, Cherokee, Chickasaw, Clay, Dickinson and 16 more | 2 hr |
| Jul 13, 10:33 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Appanoose, Clarke, Davis, Decatur, Jasper, Jefferson and 13 more | 117 min |
| Jul 13, 8:07 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Andrew, Bates, Buchanan, Cass, Clay, Clinton and 5 more | 5 hr |
| Jul 13, 6:57 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Barry, Barton, Cedar, Christian, Dade, Dallas and 12 more | 3 hr |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Watches in Missouri, 2016Severe Thunderstorm Watches in Iowa, 2016Severe Thunderstorm Watches in Illinois, 2016Every severe thunderstorm watch in 2016
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.