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Severe Thunderstorm Watch 61
The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at Mar 30, 2016, 3:52 PM CDT for 13 counties in Kansas; 4 counties in Missouri. It was in force for 3 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Mar 30, 2016, 3:52 PM CDT (20:52 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 30, 2016, 6:23 PM CDT
- In force
- 3 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
- Largest hail expected
- 1.5 in
- Strongest gust expected
- 60 kt
Counties Atchison County, KS, Brown County, KS, Coffey County, KS, Doniphan County, KS, Douglas County, KS, Jackson County, KS, Jefferson County, KS, Leavenworth County, KS, Lyon County, KS, Morris County, KS, Osage County, KS, Shawnee County, KS, Wabaunsee County, KS, Andrew County, MO, Buchanan County, MO, Holt County, MO, Platte County, MO
The radar
The Topeka radar (KTWX), 70 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:54 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
- 10%
- 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
1 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 30, 4:13 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Lyon, Osage, Shawnee, Wabaunsee | 25 min |
Discussions around it
SPC mesoscale discussions over the same counties from four hours before the watch to its end.
SPC that day
Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 30, 1:00 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Butler, Cowley, Harper, Harvey, Sedgwick, Sumner | 2 hr |
| Mar 30, 1:50 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Butler, Chase, Chautauqua, Cowley, Elk, Greenwood and 9 more | 8 hr |
| Mar 30, 2:56 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Anderson, Atchison, Brown, Coffey, Doniphan, Douglas and 12 more | 2 hr |
| Mar 30, 3:54 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Butler, Chautauqua, Cowley, Elk, Greenwood, Sedgwick and 1 more | 96 min |
| Mar 30, 6:22 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Allen, Bourbon, Chautauqua, Cherokee, Cowley, Crawford and 6 more | 53 min |
| Mar 30, 11:57 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Barry, Christian, Douglas, Howell, McDonald, Ozark and 2 more | 63 min |
| Mar 30, 1:42 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Callaway, Crawford, Franklin, Gasconade, Jefferson, Lincoln and 13 more | 2 hr |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Watches in Kansas, 2016Severe Thunderstorm Watches in Missouri, 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.