Alert archive / Kansas / Severe Thunderstorm Watches in 2017
Severe Thunderstorm Watch 379
The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at Jun 29, 2017, 1:22 AM CDT for 42 counties in Kansas. It was in force for 8 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 29, 2017, 1:22 AM CDT (06:22 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 29, 2017, 8:53 AM CDT
- In force
- 8 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
- Largest hail expected
- 3 in
- Strongest gust expected
- 60 kt
All 42 counties
Barton County, KS, Cheyenne County, KS, Clay County, KS, Cloud County, KS, Decatur County, KS, Dickinson County, KS, Ellis County, KS, Ellsworth County, KS, Geary County, KS, Gove County, KS, Graham County, KS, Greeley County, KS, Jewell County, KS, Lane County, KS, Lincoln County, KS, Logan County, KS, Marshall County, KS, Mitchell County, KS, Morris County, KS, Ness County, KS, Norton County, KS, Osborne County, KS, Ottawa County, KS, Phillips County, KS, Pottawatomie County, KS, Rawlins County, KS, Republic County, KS, Riley County, KS, Rooks County, KS, Rush County, KS, Russell County, KS, Saline County, KS, Scott County, KS, Sheridan County, KS, Sherman County, KS, Smith County, KS, Thomas County, KS, Trego County, KS, Wabaunsee County, KS, Wallace County, KS, Washington County, KS, Wichita County, KS
The radar
The Grand Island radar (KUEX), 157 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 06:24 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
- 20%
- 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
- 30%
- Six or more combined severe hail and wind reports
- 60%
Warnings issued inside it
16 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 29, 1:26 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Smith | 34 min |
| Jun 29, 1:35 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Republic | 40 min |
| Jun 29, 1:55 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Jewell, Smith | 37 min |
| Jun 29, 2:10 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Greeley, Wallace | 50 min |
| Jun 29, 2:46 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Greeley, Logan, Wallace, Wichita | 44 min |
| Jun 29, 3:09 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Sheridan, Thomas | 51 min |
| Jun 29, 3:20 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Sheridan | 40 min |
| Jun 29, 3:26 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Gove, Logan | 34 min |
| Jun 29, 3:32 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Graham, Norton | 43 min |
| Jun 29, 3:49 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Phillips, Rooks | 41 min |
| Jun 29, 4:01 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Decatur, Gove, Graham, Norton, Sheridan, Thomas | 30 min |
| Jun 29, 4:05 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Graham, Norton | 26 min |
| Jun 29, 4:27 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Osborne, Phillips, Rooks, Smith | 48 min |
| Jun 29, 5:03 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Jewell, Mitchell, Osborne, Smith | 27 min |
| Jun 29, 5:28 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Jewell | 32 min |
| Jun 29, 5:41 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Coffey, Lyon, Morris, Osage, Wabaunsee | 49 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
Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 00:00Z, 6.4 hours before the alert went out and 169 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
- 1583 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -42 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 2649 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 24 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -2 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -37 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- -1.2
SPC that day
Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 28, 11:38 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Cheyenne, Logan, Rawlins, Sherman, Thomas, Wallace | 67 min |
| Jun 29, 12:47 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Barton, Chase, Clay, Cloud, Dickinson, Ellis and 26 more | 58 min |
| Jun 29, 4:52 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Clay, Cloud, Coffey, Dickinson, Douglas, Franklin and 22 more | 53 min |
| Jun 29, 2:05 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Greeley, Logan, Wallace | 2 hr |
| Jun 29, 2:50 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Gove, Graham, Grant, Greeley, Hamilton, Kearny and 8 more | 7 hr |
| Jun 29, 3:12 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Allen, Anderson, Bourbon, Butler, Chase, Coffey and 28 more | 3 hr |
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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.