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Severe Thunderstorm Watch 433
The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at Jul 22, 2017, 5:55 PM CDT for 15 counties in Kansas; 26 counties in Missouri. It was in force for 7 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 22, 2017, 5:55 PM CDT (22:55 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 23, 2017, 1:00 AM CDT
- In force
- 7 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
- Largest hail expected
- 1.5 in
- Strongest gust expected
- 60 kt
All 41 counties
Atchison County, KS, Douglas County, KS, Geary County, KS, Jackson County, KS, Jefferson County, KS, Johnson County, KS, Leavenworth County, KS, Lyon County, KS, Morris County, KS, Osage County, KS, Pottawatomie County, KS, Riley County, KS, Shawnee County, KS, Wabaunsee County, KS, Wyandotte County, KS, Adair County, MO, Buchanan County, MO, Caldwell County, MO, Carroll County, MO, Cass County, MO, Chariton County, MO, Clay County, MO, Clinton County, MO, Cooper County, MO, Daviess County, MO, DeKalb County, MO, Grundy County, MO, Henry County, MO, Howard County, MO, Jackson County, MO, Johnson County, MO, Lafayette County, MO, Linn County, MO, Livingston County, MO, Macon County, MO, Pettis County, MO, Platte County, MO, Randolph County, MO, Ray County, MO, Saline County, MO, Sullivan County, MO
The radar
The Pleasant Hill radar (KEAX), 86 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:56 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
- 50%
- One or more gusts of 65 knots or more
- 20%
- Ten or more severe hail reports
- 20%
- One or more hailstones of 2 inches or more
- 10%
- Six or more combined severe hail and wind reports
- 80%
Warnings issued inside it
9 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 22, 5:58 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Marshall, Pottawatomie, Riley | 32 min |
| Jul 22, 9:10 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Cass, Jackson | 35 min |
| Jul 22, 9:34 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Johnson | 26 min |
| Jul 22, 9:45 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Cass, Jackson, Johnson | 45 min |
| Jul 22, 9:51 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Johnson, Wyandotte | 39 min |
| Jul 22, 10:23 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Johnson, Miami, Wyandotte | 52 min |
| Jul 22, 10:54 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Carroll, Johnson, Lafayette, Pettis, Ray, Saline | 51 min |
| Jul 22, 11:37 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Carroll, Cooper, Johnson, Lafayette, Pettis, Saline | 53 min |
| Jul 23, 12:12 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Chariton, Cooper, Howard, Randolph, Saline | 78 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
Topeka, KS (KFOE), launched 12:00Z, 10.9 hours before the alert went out and 84 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
- 1174 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -395 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1597 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 9 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 192 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 476 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 1.0
SPC that day
Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 22, 3:13 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Atchison, Clay, Cloud, Dickinson, Doniphan, Douglas and 24 more | 3 hr |
| Jul 22, 5:26 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Anderson, Atchison, Coffey, Dickinson, Doniphan, Douglas and 16 more | 2 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.