Alert archive / Kansas / Severe Thunderstorm Watches in 2016
Severe Thunderstorm Watch 455
The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at Aug 24, 2016, 4:51 PM CDT for 41 counties in Kansas; 22 counties in Missouri; 8 counties in Oklahoma. It was in force for 6 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Aug 24, 2016, 4:51 PM CDT (21:51 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 24, 2016, 11:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 6 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
- Largest hail expected
- 1.5 in
- Strongest gust expected
- 60 kt
All 71 counties
Allen County, KS, Anderson County, KS, Atchison County, KS, Brown County, KS, Butler County, KS, Chase County, KS, Chautauqua County, KS, Coffey County, KS, Cowley County, KS, Dickinson County, KS, Doniphan County, KS, Douglas County, KS, Elk County, KS, Franklin County, KS, Geary County, KS, Greenwood County, KS, Harper County, KS, Harvey County, KS, Jackson County, KS, Jefferson County, KS, Johnson County, KS, Kingman County, KS, Leavenworth County, KS, Linn County, KS, Lyon County, KS, Marion County, KS, McPherson County, KS, Miami County, KS, Morris County, KS, Nemaha County, KS, Osage County, KS, Pottawatomie County, KS, Reno County, KS, Riley County, KS, Sedgwick County, KS, Shawnee County, KS, Sumner County, KS, Wabaunsee County, KS, Wilson County, KS, Woodson County, KS, Wyandotte County, KS, Andrew County, MO, Bates County, MO, Buchanan County, MO, Caldwell County, MO, Carroll County, MO, Cass County, MO, Clay County, MO, Clinton County, MO, Cooper County, MO, Daviess County, MO, DeKalb County, MO, Henry County, MO, Holt County, MO, Howard County, MO, Jackson County, MO, Johnson County, MO, Lafayette County, MO, Livingston County, MO, Pettis County, MO, Platte County, MO, Ray County, MO, Saline County, MO, Alfalfa County, OK, Blaine County, OK, Garfield County, OK, Grant County, OK, Kay County, OK, Kingfisher County, OK, Major County, OK, Noble County, OK
The radar
The Topeka radar (KTWX), 94 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:53 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
- 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
39 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 24, 5:16 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Marshall, Nemaha, Washington | 44 min |
| Aug 24, 5:34 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Garfield, Grant | 26 min |
| Aug 24, 5:45 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Butler | 45 min |
| Aug 24, 5:45 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Garfield | 30 min |
| Aug 24, 6:02 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Garfield, Grant, Kay, Noble | 43 min |
| Aug 24, 6:04 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Chase | 23 min |
| Aug 24, 6:12 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Garfield, Noble | 48 min |
| Aug 24, 6:13 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Butler, Harvey, Marion | 33 min |
| Aug 24, 6:24 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Kay, Noble | 51 min |
| Aug 24, 6:28 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Douglas, Osage, Shawnee | 47 min |
| Aug 24, 6:29 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Butler, Chase, Greenwood | 33 min |
| Aug 24, 6:40 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Coffey, Lyon | 35 min |
| Aug 24, 6:42 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Brown | 31 min |
| Aug 24, 6:57 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Doniphan | 38 min |
| Aug 24, 7:07 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Douglas, Jefferson | 38 min |
| Aug 24, 7:08 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Coffey, Lyon | 27 min |
| Aug 24, 7:10 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Kay | 20 min |
| Aug 24, 7:12 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Johnson, Miami | 33 min |
| Aug 24, 7:19 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Johnson, Leavenworth, Wyandotte | 41 min |
| Aug 24, 7:20 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Coffey, Osage | 40 min |
| Aug 24, 7:26 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Atchison, Leavenworth | 49 min |
| Aug 24, 7:27 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Andrew, Holt, Nodaway | 48 min |
| Aug 24, 7:34 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Johnson | 41 min |
| Aug 24, 7:40 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Johnson | 35 min |
| Aug 24, 7:48 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Anderson, Coffey, Franklin, Osage | 42 min |
| Aug 24, 7:55 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Johnson, Leavenworth | 35 min |
| Aug 24, 8:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Andrew, DeKalb, Gentry, Nodaway | 30 min |
| Aug 24, 8:14 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | EAX | Cass, Jackson, Johnson, Lafayette | 31 min |
| Aug 24, 8:16 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Johnson | 29 min |
| Aug 24, 8:20 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Anderson, Franklin | 40 min |
| Aug 24, 8:33 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Johnson, Miami | 27 min |
| Aug 24, 8:40 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Cass, Jackson, Johnson, Lafayette | 35 min |
| Aug 24, 8:59 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Johnson, Miami | 31 min |
| Aug 24, 9:06 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Johnson, Lafayette, Pettis, Saline | 39 min |
| Aug 24, 9:28 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Cass, Jackson, Johnson, Lafayette, Ray | 32 min |
| Aug 24, 9:40 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Cooper, Howard, Johnson, Lafayette, Pettis, Saline | 50 min |
| Aug 24, 9:44 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Caldwell, Carroll, Livingston, Ray | 31 min |
| Aug 24, 10:15 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | EAX | Chariton, Howard, Saline | 30 min |
| Aug 24, 10:28 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Cooper, Howard, Pettis, Saline | 32 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, 9.9 hours before the alert went out and 120 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
- 480 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -293 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 845 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 29 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 325 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 352 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 23, 8:36 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Atchison, Brown, Clay, Cloud, Doniphan, Jackson and 6 more | 84 min |
| Aug 24, 3:23 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Allen, Anderson, Barber, Bourbon, Butler, Chase and 41 more | 97 min |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Watches in Kansas, 2016Severe Thunderstorm Watches in Missouri, 2016Severe Thunderstorm Watches in Oklahoma, 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.