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Severe Thunderstorm Watch 384

June 30, 20174 states

The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at Jun 30, 2017, 2:42 AM CDT for 4 states. It was in force for 6 hr.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued
Jun 30, 2017, 2:42 AM CDT (07:42 UTC)
Expired
Jun 30, 2017, 8:39 AM CDT
In force
6 hr
Issued by
the Storm Prediction Center
Largest hail expected
1.5 in
Strongest gust expected
65 kt
All 46 counties

Benton County, AR, Boone County, AR, Carroll County, AR, Crawford County, AR, Franklin County, AR, Johnson County, AR, Madison County, AR, Newton County, AR, Washington County, AR, Bourbon County, KS, Cherokee County, KS, Crawford County, KS, Barry County, MO, Barton County, MO, Cedar County, MO, Christian County, MO, Dade County, MO, Dallas County, MO, Douglas County, MO, Greene County, MO, Jasper County, MO, Laclede County, MO, Lawrence County, MO, McDonald County, MO, Newton County, MO, Polk County, MO, Pulaski County, MO, Stone County, MO, Taney County, MO, Texas County, MO, Vernon County, MO, Webster County, MO, Wright County, MO, Adair County, OK, Cherokee County, OK, Craig County, OK, Creek County, OK, Delaware County, OK, Mayes County, OK, Muskogee County, OK, Okmulgee County, OK, Ottawa County, OK, Rogers County, OK, Sequoyah County, OK, Tulsa County, OK, Wagoner County, OK

The radar

The Springfield radar (KSGF), 105 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 07:45 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
5%
Ten or more severe wind reports
50%
One or more gusts of 65 knots or more
30%
Ten or more severe hail reports
10%
One or more hailstones of 2 inches or more
5%
Six or more combined severe hail and wind reports
60%

Warnings issued inside it

7 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 30, 2:53 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSGFBourbon, Crawford52 min
Jun 30, 3:16 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSGFBarton, Vernon59 min
Jun 30, 3:22 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSGFCherokee53 min
Jun 30, 3:44 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSGFCrawford16 min
Jun 30, 4:04 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTSACraig, Nowata, Ottawa41 min
Jun 30, 5:07 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSGFChristian, Dallas, Greene, Lawrence, Polk, Webster38 min
Jun 30, 5:35 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSGFDallas, Laclede, Webster, Wright40 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

Springfield, MO (KSGF), launched 00:00Z, 7.7 hours before the alert went out and 58 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.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Springfield, MO at 00:00Z on 2017-06-30Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 973 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Springfield, MO at 00:00Z on 2017-06-30The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 5 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.
Mixed-layer CAPE
973 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-114 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1229 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
22 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
5 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
224 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.1
Supercell composite
1.6

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

SPC that day

Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 30, 6:30 AM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCBenton, Boone, Carroll, Crawford, Franklin, Johnson and 3 more2 hr
Jun 30, 3:42 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPCCrawford, Franklin, Sebastian7 hr
Jun 30, 6:27 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCCrawford, Franklin, Sebastian, Washington93 min
Jun 29, 7:28 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCGrant, Greeley, Hamilton, Kearny, Sherman, Stanton and 2 more2 hr
Jun 29, 8:37 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCBarber, Barton, Clark, Comanche, Edwards, Ellis and 37 more83 min
Jun 29, 9:02 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPCClay, Cloud, Jewell, Mitchell, Osborne, Ottawa and 5 more5 hr
Jun 29, 10:56 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPCAllen, Anderson, Barber, Barton, Butler, Chase and 41 more6 hr
Jun 30, 1:32 AM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCAllen, Anderson, Butler, Chase, Chautauqua, Coffey and 20 more118 min
Jun 30, 1:35 AM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCAtchison, Brown, Doniphan, Jackson, Nemaha, Pottawatomie2 hr
Jun 30, 4:37 AM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCBarber, Chautauqua, Comanche, Cowley, Harper, Labette and 2 more113 min
Jun 30, 3:21 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCAtoka, Beckham, Bryan, Caddo, Canadian, Carter and 39 more114 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.