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Severe Thunderstorm Watch 420
The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at Jul 28, 2016, 3:46 PM CDT for 51 counties in Kansas. It was in force for 6 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 28, 2016, 3:46 PM CDT (20:46 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 28, 2016, 9:36 PM CDT
- In force
- 6 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
- Largest hail expected
- 2 in
- Strongest gust expected
- 70 kt
All 51 counties
Barton County, KS, Butler County, KS, Chase County, KS, Chautauqua County, KS, Clay County, KS, Cloud County, KS, Cowley County, KS, Decatur County, KS, Dickinson County, KS, Edwards County, KS, Elk County, KS, Ellis County, KS, Ellsworth County, KS, Geary County, KS, Gove County, KS, Graham County, KS, Greenwood County, KS, Harper County, KS, Harvey County, KS, Jewell County, KS, Kingman County, KS, Lincoln County, KS, Lyon County, KS, Marion County, KS, McPherson County, KS, Mitchell County, KS, Morris County, KS, Ness County, KS, Norton County, KS, Osborne County, KS, Ottawa County, KS, Pawnee County, KS, Phillips County, KS, Pottawatomie County, KS, Pratt County, KS, Reno County, KS, Republic County, KS, Rice County, KS, Riley County, KS, Rooks County, KS, Rush County, KS, Russell County, KS, Saline County, KS, Sedgwick County, KS, Sheridan County, KS, Smith County, KS, Stafford County, KS, Sumner County, KS, Trego County, KS, Wabaunsee County, KS, Washington County, KS
The radar
The Dodge City radar (KDDC), 149 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:49 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
- 40%
- One or more gusts of 65 knots or more
- 30%
- 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
21 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 28, 3:51 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Decatur, Graham, Norton | 39 min |
| Jul 28, 4:12 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Phillips | 33 min |
| Jul 28, 4:30 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Phillips, Smith | 45 min |
| Jul 28, 5:01 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Osborne, Rooks | 14 min |
| Jul 28, 5:14 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Jewell, Mitchell, Osborne, Smith | 46 min |
| Jul 28, 5:34 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Cloud, Ottawa, Republic | 41 min |
| Jul 28, 5:49 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Osborne, Smith | 11 min |
| Jul 28, 5:52 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Ellsworth, Lincoln, Russell | 38 min |
| Jul 28, 5:59 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Jewell, Mitchell, Osborne, Smith | 46 min |
| Jul 28, 6:12 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Clay, Cloud, Dickinson, Ottawa | 48 min |
| Jul 28, 6:24 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Barton, Ellsworth, Lincoln, Rice, Russell, Saline | 36 min |
| Jul 28, 6:28 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Clay, Cloud, Republic, Washington | 32 min |
| Jul 28, 6:55 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Barton, Ellsworth, McPherson, Rice | 35 min |
| Jul 28, 7:04 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Reno | 26 min |
| Jul 28, 7:19 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Clay, Dickinson, Geary, Morris, Pottawatomie, Riley | 41 min |
| Jul 28, 7:23 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Harvey, McPherson, Reno, Rice | 52 min |
| Jul 28, 7:50 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Harvey, Kingman, McPherson, Marion, Reno, Sedgwick | 40 min |
| Jul 28, 8:15 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Butler, Cowley, Harper, Harvey, Kingman, Sedgwick and 1 more | 45 min |
| Jul 28, 8:18 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ICT | Kingman | 29 min |
| Jul 28, 8:42 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Butler, Cowley, Harper, Kingman, Sedgwick, Sumner | 48 min |
| Jul 28, 8:59 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Butler | 31 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 12:00Z, 8.8 hours before the alert went out and 145 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1923 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 31 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 79 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 131 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
SPC that day
Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 27, 11:01 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Cheyenne, Finney, Gove, Greeley, Hamilton, Kearny and 9 more | 119 min |
| Jul 28, 1:59 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Decatur, Ellis, Graham, Lincoln, Mitchell, Norton and 5 more | 2 hr |
| Jul 28, 3:20 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Chautauqua, Cowley, Harper, Sumner | 115 min |
| Jul 28, 6:14 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Barton, Butler, Chase, Clay, Cloud, Dickinson and 35 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.