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Severe Thunderstorm Watch 397

July 19, 20168 counties in Illinois; 8 counties in Iowa; 30 counties in Missouri

The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at Jul 19, 2016, 2:18 PM CDT for 8 counties in Illinois; 8 counties in Iowa; 30 counties in Missouri. It was in force for 6 hr.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued
Jul 19, 2016, 2:18 PM CDT (19:18 UTC)
Expired
Jul 19, 2016, 8:00 PM CDT
In force
6 hr
Issued by
the Storm Prediction Center
Largest hail expected
2 in
Strongest gust expected
60 kt
All 46 counties

Appanoose County, IA, Davis County, IA, Decatur County, IA, Lucas County, IA, Monroe County, IA, Van Buren County, IA, Wapello County, IA, Wayne County, IA, Adams County, IL, Brown County, IL, Calhoun County, IL, Greene County, IL, Jersey County, IL, Macoupin County, IL, Madison County, IL, Pike County, IL, Adair County, MO, Audrain County, MO, Boone County, MO, Callaway County, MO, Chariton County, MO, City of Saint Louis, MO, Clark County, MO, Grundy County, MO, Harrison County, MO, Howard County, MO, Knox County, MO, Lewis County, MO, Lincoln County, MO, Linn County, MO, Macon County, MO, Marion County, MO, Mercer County, MO, Monroe County, MO, Montgomery County, MO, Pike County, MO, Putnam County, MO, Ralls County, MO, Randolph County, MO, Saint Charles County, MO, Saint Louis County, MO, Schuyler County, MO, Scotland County, MO, Shelby County, MO, Sullivan County, MO, Warren County, MO

The radar

The Pleasant Hill radar (KEAX), 209 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:20 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
20%
One or more EF2 to EF5 tornadoes
2%
Ten or more severe wind reports
50%
One or more gusts of 65 knots or more
10%
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

14 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jul 19, 2:49 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEAXPutnam, Schuyler, Sullivan71 min
Jul 19, 2:57 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDMXAppanoose, Davis, Lucas, Monroe, Wayne33 min
Jul 19, 2:59 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningDMXAppanoose, Decatur, Lucas, Monroe, Wayne6 hr
Jul 19, 3:11 PM CDTTornado Warning Tornado observedDMXMonroe34 min
Jul 19, 3:21 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDMXAppanoose, Davis, Monroe, Wapello39 min
Jul 19, 3:24 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDVNVan Buren57 min
Jul 19, 5:01 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLSXRalls44 min
Jul 19, 5:27 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLSXAdams48 min
Jul 19, 5:38 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLSXBrown37 min
Jul 19, 6:01 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLSXAdams, Brown, Pike44 min
Jul 19, 6:11 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningLSXBrown, Pike3 hr
Jul 19, 6:13 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLSXPike47 min
Jul 19, 6:46 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLSXCalhoun, Greene, Pike44 min
Jul 19, 7:47 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLSXCalhoun, Jersey43 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, 7.3 hours before the alert went out and 238 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.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Davenport, at 12:00Z on 2016-07-19Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 368 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Davenport, at 12:00Z on 2016-07-19The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 38 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.
Mixed-layer CAPE
368 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-136 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1025 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
28 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
38 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
107 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.6

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

SPC that day

Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jul 19, 5:47 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCAdams, Brown, Calhoun, Cass, Greene, Jersey and 6 more58 min
Jul 19, 12:28 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCAdair, Adams, Appanoose, Audubon, Cass, Clarke and 26 more2 hr

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Watches in Missouri, 2016Severe Thunderstorm Watches in Illinois, 2016Severe Thunderstorm Watches in Iowa, 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.