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Severe Thunderstorm Watch 382
The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at Jun 29, 2017, 9:02 PM CDT for 11 counties in Kansas; 5 counties in Nebraska. It was in force for 5 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 29, 2017, 9:02 PM CDT (02:02 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 30, 2017, 1:36 AM CDT
- In force
- 5 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
- Largest hail expected
- 2 in
- Strongest gust expected
- 60 kt
Counties Clay County, KS, Cloud County, KS, Jewell County, KS, Mitchell County, KS, Osborne County, KS, Ottawa County, KS, Phillips County, KS, Republic County, KS, Rooks County, KS, Smith County, KS, Washington County, KS, Franklin County, NE, Harlan County, NE, Nuckolls County, NE, Thayer County, NE, Webster County, NE
The radar
The Grand Island radar (KUEX), 88 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 02:03 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
- 40%
- One or more gusts of 65 knots or more
- 10%
- Ten or more severe hail reports
- 40%
- One or more hailstones of 2 inches or more
- 30%
- Six or more combined severe hail and wind reports
- 70%
Warnings issued inside it
6 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 29, 9:27 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Furnas, Harlan | 48 min |
| Jun 29, 9:59 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Osborne, Phillips, Rooks, Smith | 46 min |
| Jun 29, 10:05 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Adams, Franklin, Harlan, Kearney, Webster | 40 min |
| Jun 29, 11:34 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Jewell | 29 min |
| Jun 29, 11:49 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Thayer | 16 min |
| Jun 30, 12:12 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Dickinson, Ottawa | 33 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, 2.0 hours before the alert went out and 233 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
- 2063 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -33 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1903 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 37 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 1 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 217 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.1
- Supercell composite
- 4.2
SPC that day
Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 29, 7:28 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Grant, Greeley, Hamilton, Kearny, Sherman, Stanton and 2 more | 2 hr |
| Jun 29, 8:37 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Barber, Barton, Clark, Comanche, Edwards, Ellis and 37 more | 83 min |
| Jun 29, 10:56 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Allen, Anderson, Barber, Barton, Butler, Chase and 41 more | 6 hr |
| Jun 30, 1:32 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Allen, Anderson, Butler, Chase, Chautauqua, Coffey and 20 more | 118 min |
| Jun 30, 1:35 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Atchison, Brown, Doniphan, Jackson, Nemaha, Pottawatomie | 2 hr |
| Jun 30, 2:42 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Bourbon, Cherokee, Crawford | 6 hr |
| Jun 30, 4:37 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Barber, Chautauqua, Comanche, Cowley, Harper, Labette and 2 more | 113 min |
| Jun 29, 9:24 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Douglas, Sarpy, Saunders, Washington | 66 min |
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.