Alert archive / Kansas / Severe Thunderstorm Watches in 2017
Severe Thunderstorm Watch 332
The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at Jun 15, 2017, 1:24 PM CDT for 64 counties in Kansas. It was in force for 6 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 15, 2017, 1:24 PM CDT (18:24 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 15, 2017, 7:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 6 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
- Largest hail expected
- 3 in
- Strongest gust expected
- 65 kt
All 64 counties
Anderson County, KS, Barber County, KS, Barton County, KS, Brown County, KS, Butler County, KS, Chase County, KS, Chautauqua County, KS, Clark County, KS, Clay County, KS, Cloud County, KS, Coffey County, KS, Comanche County, KS, Cowley County, KS, Dickinson County, KS, Douglas County, KS, Edwards County, KS, Elk County, KS, Ellis County, KS, Ellsworth County, KS, Ford County, KS, Franklin County, KS, Geary County, KS, Gove County, KS, Graham County, KS, Greenwood County, KS, Harper County, KS, Harvey County, KS, Hodgeman County, KS, Jackson County, KS, Jefferson County, KS, Kingman County, KS, Kiowa County, KS, Lane County, KS, Lincoln County, KS, Lyon County, KS, Marion County, KS, Marshall County, KS, McPherson County, KS, Mitchell County, KS, Morris County, KS, Nemaha County, KS, Ness County, KS, Osage County, KS, Osborne County, KS, Ottawa County, KS, Pawnee 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, Scott County, KS, Sedgwick County, KS, Shawnee County, KS, Stafford County, KS, Sumner County, KS, Trego County, KS, Wabaunsee County, KS, Washington County, KS
The radar
The Wichita radar (KICT), 140 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:25 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
- 80%
- One or more gusts of 65 knots or more
- 50%
- Ten or more severe hail reports
- 95%
- One or more hailstones of 2 inches or more
- 70%
- Six or more combined severe hail and wind reports
- 95%
Warnings issued inside it
48 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 15, 1:35 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Ellis, Trego | 55 min |
| Jun 15, 1:52 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DDC | Ellis, Trego | 16 min |
| Jun 15, 1:58 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DDC | Ellis, Trego | 20 min |
| Jun 15, 2:27 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Ellis | 48 min |
| Jun 15, 2:35 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DDC | Ellis | 17 min |
| Jun 15, 2:46 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Ellis, Trego | 44 min |
| Jun 15, 3:02 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Ellis, Rush | 43 min |
| Jun 15, 3:05 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | DDC | Ellis | 4 hr |
| Jun 15, 3:13 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Ellis | 47 min |
| Jun 15, 3:29 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Ellsworth, Lincoln, Russell | 61 min |
| Jun 15, 3:33 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Trego | 57 min |
| Jun 15, 3:33 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Barton, Russell | 57 min |
| Jun 15, 3:43 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Ellis, Pawnee, Rush | 47 min |
| Jun 15, 3:59 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Rooks | 46 min |
| Jun 15, 4:15 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Ellsworth, Lincoln, McPherson, Marion, Rice, Saline | 75 min |
| Jun 15, 4:21 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Ottawa | 39 min |
| Jun 15, 4:26 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Barton, Russell | 64 min |
| Jun 15, 4:28 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Rush | 47 min |
| Jun 15, 4:30 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Trego | 45 min |
| Jun 15, 4:50 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Ness, Rush | 55 min |
| Jun 15, 4:54 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Dickinson, Geary, Morris | 51 min |
| Jun 15, 4:58 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Barton | 62 min |
| Jun 15, 4:59 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Clay, Dickinson, Geary, Ottawa, Riley | 46 min |
| Jun 15, 5:13 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Pawnee, Rush, Stafford | 62 min |
| Jun 15, 5:23 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | McPherson, Marion, Saline | 52 min |
| Jun 15, 5:29 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Clay, Cloud, Riley | 46 min |
| Jun 15, 5:34 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Barton, Ellsworth, Rice | 56 min |
| Jun 15, 5:42 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | TOP | Dickinson, Morris | 33 min |
| Jun 15, 5:43 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Ness, Rush | 62 min |
| Jun 15, 5:45 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Clay, Dickinson, Geary, Morris, Pottawatomie, Riley and 1 more | 60 min |
| Jun 15, 5:53 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Chase, Marion | 67 min |
| Jun 15, 5:58 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Stafford | 31 min |
| Jun 15, 6:02 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Harvey, McPherson, Reno, Rice | 73 min |
| Jun 15, 6:12 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | TOP | Geary, Morris, Wabaunsee | 21 min |
| Jun 15, 6:13 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Clay, Pottawatomie, Riley | 32 min |
| Jun 15, 6:14 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | McPherson, Marion | 46 min |
| Jun 15, 6:20 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Butler, Chase, Marion | 55 min |
| Jun 15, 6:23 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Barber, Comanche | 52 min |
| Jun 15, 6:25 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Coffey, Geary, Lyon, Morris, Osage, Shawnee and 1 more | 50 min |
| Jun 15, 6:28 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Hodgeman, Ness, Pawnee, Rush | 39 min |
| Jun 15, 6:33 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Pawnee, Stafford | 57 min |
| Jun 15, 6:36 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Pottawatomie, Riley | 21 min |
| Jun 15, 6:39 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Butler, Harvey, Kingman, Reno, Sedgwick | 81 min |
| Jun 15, 6:47 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Butler, Chase, Greenwood, Marion | 73 min |
| Jun 15, 6:47 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Washington | 43 min |
| Jun 15, 6:48 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Finney, Ford, Gray, Hodgeman | 17 min |
| Jun 15, 6:50 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Pottawatomie, Riley, Wabaunsee | 40 min |
| Jun 15, 6:53 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Chase, Marion | 52 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 14, 9:54 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Atchison, Doniphan, Douglas, Franklin, Jefferson, Johnson and 6 more | 96 min |
| Jun 15, 12:49 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Barber, Barton, Butler, Chase, Clay, Cloud and 37 more | 2 hr |
| Jun 15, 2:03 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Comanche | 2 hr |
| Jun 15, 3:29 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Barber, Barton, Butler, Chase, Chautauqua, Clay and 55 more | 2 hr |
| Jun 15, 5:58 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Allen, Anderson, Barber, Barton, Bourbon, Butler and 54 more | 62 min |
| Jun 15, 6:39 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Atchison, Doniphan | 6 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.