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Severe Thunderstorm Watch 453
The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at Aug 19, 2016, 1:55 PM CDT for 24 counties in Kansas; 13 counties in Nebraska. It was in force for 5 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Aug 19, 2016, 1:55 PM CDT (18:55 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 19, 2016, 6:50 PM CDT
- In force
- 5 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
- Largest hail expected
- 1.5 in
- Strongest gust expected
- 60 kt
All 37 counties
Barton County, KS, Clay County, KS, Cloud County, KS, Dickinson County, KS, Ellsworth County, KS, Geary County, KS, Jewell County, KS, Lincoln County, KS, Marion County, KS, Marshall County, KS, McPherson County, KS, Mitchell County, KS, Morris County, KS, Nemaha County, KS, Osborne County, KS, Ottawa County, KS, Pottawatomie County, KS, Republic County, KS, Rice County, KS, Riley County, KS, Russell County, KS, Saline County, KS, Smith County, KS, Washington County, KS, Clay County, NE, Fillmore County, NE, Gage County, NE, Jefferson County, NE, Johnson County, NE, Nemaha County, NE, Nuckolls County, NE, Otoe County, NE, Pawnee County, NE, Richardson County, NE, Saline County, NE, Thayer County, NE, Webster County, NE
The radar
The Grand Island radar (KUEX), 107 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:57 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
- 5%
- One or more EF2 to EF5 tornadoes
- 2%
- Ten or more severe wind reports
- 30%
- 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
- 10%
- Six or more combined severe hail and wind reports
- 60%
Warnings issued inside it
6 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 19, 2:03 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Osborne | 42 min |
| Aug 19, 2:39 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Russell | 41 min |
| Aug 19, 2:55 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Lincoln | 46 min |
| Aug 19, 3:05 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Republic | 25 min |
| Aug 19, 4:34 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Marion | 41 min |
| Aug 19, 5:39 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Geary, Morris, Riley, Wabaunsee | 51 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, 6.9 hours before the alert went out and 176 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
- 1606 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -46 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 831 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 16 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 3 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -25 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 19, 1:36 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Barton, Clay, Cloud, Dickinson, Ellsworth, Geary and 20 more | 84 min |
| Aug 19, 3:17 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Barber, Cowley, Harper, Harvey, Kingman, Pratt and 4 more | 88 min |
| Aug 19, 5:40 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Atchison, Brown, Butler, Chase, Coffey, Dickinson and 22 more | 95 min |
| Aug 18, 9:36 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Boyd, Cherry, Keya Paha | 84 min |
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.