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Severe Thunderstorm Watch 444
The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at Aug 10, 2017, 2:27 PM CDT for 44 counties in Kansas. It was in force for 7 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Aug 10, 2017, 2:27 PM CDT (19:27 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 10, 2017, 9:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 7 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
- Largest hail expected
- 3 in
- Strongest gust expected
- 60 kt
All 44 counties
Allen County, KS, Barton County, KS, Butler County, KS, Chase County, KS, Chautauqua County, KS, Clay County, KS, Cloud County, KS, Cowley County, KS, Dickinson County, KS, Elk County, KS, Ellis County, KS, Ellsworth County, KS, Gove County, KS, Graham County, KS, Greenwood County, KS, Harvey County, KS, Kingman County, KS, Labette County, KS, Lane County, KS, Lincoln County, KS, Logan County, KS, Marion County, KS, McPherson County, KS, Mitchell County, KS, Montgomery County, KS, Neosho County, KS, Ness County, KS, Osborne County, KS, Ottawa County, KS, Pawnee County, KS, Pratt County, KS, Reno County, KS, Rice County, KS, Rooks County, KS, Rush County, KS, Russell County, KS, Saline County, KS, Scott County, KS, Sedgwick County, KS, Stafford County, KS, Trego County, KS, Wichita County, KS, Wilson County, KS, Woodson County, KS
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
- 30%
- One or more gusts of 65 knots or more
- 10%
- 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 10, 2:32 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DDC | Trego | 43 min |
| Aug 10, 2:40 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | GLD | Logan | 35 min |
| Aug 10, 2:43 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | GLD | Logan | 3 hr |
| Aug 10, 2:48 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Ellis, Trego | 57 min |
| Aug 10, 2:52 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Gove, Logan, Wichita | 42 min |
| Aug 10, 3:10 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | DDC | Trego | 3 hr |
| Aug 10, 3:15 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Lane, Scott | 30 min |
| Aug 10, 3:16 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Ellis, Rush, Trego | 44 min |
| Aug 10, 4:04 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Ellis, Rush | 22 min |
| Aug 10, 4:14 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Pawnee, Rush | 46 min |
| Aug 10, 4:28 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Barton | 39 min |
| Aug 10, 4:48 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Pawnee, Stafford | 57 min |
| Aug 10, 5:18 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Barber, Comanche, Kiowa, Pratt | 21 min |
| Aug 10, 5:42 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Pratt, Stafford | 63 min |
| Aug 10, 6:17 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Greenwood | 43 min |
| Aug 10, 8:17 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Labette, Neosho, Wilson | 26 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 12:00Z, 7.5 hours before the alert went out and 141 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
- 520 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -132 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1117 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 27 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 10 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 44 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- -0.2
SPC that day
Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 9, 7:36 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Barber, Comanche, Harper | 84 min |
| Aug 10, 1:42 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Harper, Sumner | 2 hr |
| Aug 10, 2:05 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Barton, Cloud, Ellis, Ellsworth, Gove, Graham and 15 more | 115 min |
| Aug 10, 2:06 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Barber, Comanche, Harper, Sumner | 7 hr |
| Aug 10, 3:50 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Grant, Gray, Greeley, Hamilton, Haskell, Kearny and 5 more | 115 min |
| Aug 10, 4:52 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Finney, Grant, Gray, Greeley, Hamilton, Haskell and 7 more | 7 hr |
| Aug 10, 4:53 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Barton, Edwards, Ellsworth, Harvey, Kingman, Kiowa and 11 more | 97 min |
| Aug 10, 6:44 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Barber, Comanche | 91 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.