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Severe Thunderstorm Watch 92
The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at Apr 15, 2016, 9:53 PM CDT for 12 counties in Kansas; Beaver County, Cimarron County, Texas County, Oklahoma; 24 counties in Texas. It was in force for 7 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Apr 15, 2016, 9:53 PM CDT (02:53 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 16, 2016, 5:00 AM CDT
- In force
- 7 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
- Largest hail expected
- 2 in
- Strongest gust expected
- 60 kt
All 39 counties
Finney County, KS, Ford County, KS, Grant County, KS, Gray County, KS, Haskell County, KS, Hodgeman County, KS, Kearny County, KS, Meade County, KS, Morton County, KS, Seward County, KS, Stanton County, KS, Stevens County, KS, Beaver County, OK, Cimarron County, OK, Texas County, OK, Armstrong County, TX, Bailey County, TX, Briscoe County, TX, Carson County, TX, Castro County, TX, Dallam County, TX, Deaf Smith County, TX, Donley County, TX, Floyd County, TX, Gray County, TX, Hale County, TX, Hansford County, TX, Hartley County, TX, Hutchinson County, TX, Lamb County, TX, Moore County, TX, Ochiltree County, TX, Oldham County, TX, Parmer County, TX, Potter County, TX, Randall County, TX, Roberts County, TX, Sherman County, TX, Swisher County, TX
The radar
The Amarillo radar (KAMA), 44 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 02:57 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
- 20%
- One or more EF2 to EF5 tornadoes
- 10%
- Ten or more severe wind reports
- 20%
- 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
- 60%
Warnings issued inside it
13 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 15, 9:55 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Grant, Stanton, Stevens | 50 min |
| Apr 15, 9:57 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Bailey, Castro, Parmer | 33 min |
| Apr 15, 10:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AMA | Hartley | 60 min |
| Apr 15, 10:02 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Grant, Hamilton, Kearny, Stanton | 43 min |
| Apr 15, 10:15 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AMA | Moore, Sherman | 60 min |
| Apr 15, 10:30 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AMA | Texas | 45 min |
| Apr 15, 10:59 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | AMA | Hartley | 15 min |
| Apr 15, 11:26 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AMA | Dallam, Hartley, Moore, Sherman | 64 min |
| Apr 16, 12:23 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AMA | Cimarron, Texas | 33 min |
| Apr 16, 12:34 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AMA | Dallam, Hartley, Sherman | 86 min |
| Apr 16, 12:41 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AMA | Hartley, Moore, Oldham, Potter | 37 min |
| Apr 16, 12:58 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | DDC | Morton | 8 hr |
| Apr 16, 2:25 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | DDC | Haskell | 6 hr |
Discussions around it
SPC mesoscale discussions over the same counties from four hours before the watch to its end.
The nearest sounding before it
Amarillo Airport, TX (KAMA), launched 00:00Z, 2.9 hours before the alert went out and 44 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
- 1077 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -59 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1488 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 54 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 41 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 208 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.3
- Supercell composite
- 3.8
SPC that day
Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 15, 8:20 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Cheyenne, Logan, Rawlins, Sherman, Thomas, Wallace and 1 more | 85 min |
| Apr 15, 9:07 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Grant, Morton, Stanton, Stevens | 83 min |
| Apr 15, 11:52 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Gray, Haskell, Meade, Morton, Seward, Stevens | 113 min |
| Apr 16, 2:22 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Beaver, Cimarron, Texas | 53 min |
| Apr 16, 1:50 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Beaver, Texas | 85 min |
| Apr 16, 2:19 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Beaver, Texas | 9 hr |
| Apr 16, 6:14 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Beaver, Texas | 2 hr |
| Apr 16, 6:52 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Comanche, Cotton, Greer, Harmon, Jackson, Kiowa and 1 more | 113 min |
| Apr 16, 3:53 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Coke, Crockett, Fisher, Glasscock, Howard, Irion and 6 more | 67 min |
| Apr 16, 4:49 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Borden, Callahan, Coke, Coleman, Concho, Crane and 25 more | 7 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.