Alert archive / Kansas / Severe Thunderstorm Watches in 2018
Severe Thunderstorm Watch 284
The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at Jul 19, 2018, 12:26 PM CDT for 49 counties in Kansas; Platte County, Missouri. It was in force for 8 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 19, 2018, 12:26 PM CDT (17:26 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 19, 2018, 7:57 PM CDT
- In force
- 8 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
- Largest hail expected
- 2.5 in
- Strongest gust expected
- 65 kt
All 50 counties
Allen County, KS, Anderson County, KS, Atchison County, KS, Barton County, KS, Bourbon County, KS, Chase County, KS, Cherokee County, KS, Clay County, KS, Cloud County, KS, Coffey County, KS, Crawford County, KS, Dickinson County, KS, Douglas County, KS, Ellsworth County, KS, Franklin County, KS, Geary County, KS, Greenwood County, KS, Jackson County, KS, Jefferson County, KS, Jewell County, KS, Johnson County, KS, Leavenworth County, KS, Lincoln County, KS, Linn County, KS, Lyon County, KS, Marion County, KS, McPherson County, KS, Miami County, KS, Mitchell County, KS, Morris County, KS, Neosho County, KS, Osage County, KS, Osborne County, KS, Ottawa County, KS, Phillips County, KS, Pottawatomie County, KS, Republic County, KS, Rice County, KS, Riley County, KS, Rooks County, KS, Russell County, KS, Saline County, KS, Shawnee County, KS, Smith County, KS, Wabaunsee County, KS, Washington County, KS, Wilson County, KS, Woodson County, KS, Wyandotte County, KS, Platte County, MO
The radar
The Topeka radar (KTWX), 93 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 17:27 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
- 40%
- Ten or more severe hail reports
- 50%
- One or more hailstones of 2 inches or more
- 40%
- Six or more combined severe hail and wind reports
- 80%
Warnings issued inside it
23 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 19, 12:29 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Jewell, Smith | 46 min |
| Jul 19, 12:31 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Mitchell | 29 min |
| Jul 19, 12:48 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Ottawa | 57 min |
| Jul 19, 12:49 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Ottawa | 41 min |
| Jul 19, 12:54 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Cloud | 21 min |
| Jul 19, 1:09 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Cloud | 53 min |
| Jul 19, 1:14 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Ottawa | 47 min |
| Jul 19, 1:18 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Clay, Dickinson | 57 min |
| Jul 19, 1:28 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Clay | 47 min |
| Jul 19, 1:47 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Geary, Pottawatomie, Riley | 58 min |
| Jul 19, 2:14 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Geary, Jackson, Morris, Pottawatomie, Riley, Shawnee and 1 more | 61 min |
| Jul 19, 2:39 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Jackson, Lyon, Osage, Pottawatomie, Shawnee, Wabaunsee | 66 min |
| Jul 19, 2:52 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Franklin | 53 min |
| Jul 19, 3:02 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Douglas, Franklin, Jackson, Jefferson, Osage, Shawnee | 58 min |
| Jul 19, 3:05 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Coffey, Lyon, Osage | 25 min |
| Jul 19, 3:24 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Anderson, Coffey, Franklin, Lyon, Osage | 66 min |
| Jul 19, 3:30 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Johnson, Leavenworth, Miami, Wyandotte | 60 min |
| Jul 19, 3:34 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Anderson | 26 min |
| Jul 19, 3:48 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Anderson, Coffey, Franklin | 57 min |
| Jul 19, 3:49 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Linn | 26 min |
| Jul 19, 3:58 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Douglas, Franklin | 30 min |
| Jul 19, 4:15 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Johnson, Linn, Miami, Wyandotte | 60 min |
| Jul 19, 4:17 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Allen, Neosho, Wilson, Woodson | 48 min |
Discussions around it
SPC mesoscale discussions over the same counties from four hours before the watch to its end.
SPC that day
Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 18, 9:21 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Clay, Cloud, Jewell, Lincoln, Marshall, Mitchell and 6 more | 114 min |
| Jul 19, 12:47 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Marshall, Nemaha, Washington | 118 min |
| Jul 19, 1:00 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Atchison, Brown, Doniphan, Jackson, Marshall, Nemaha and 3 more | 5 hr |
| Jul 19, 3:52 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Atchison, Brown, Doniphan, Geary, Jackson, Jefferson and 7 more | 53 min |
| Jul 19, 11:37 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Allen, Anderson, Atchison, Chase, Clay, Cloud and 38 more | 113 min |
| Jul 19, 2:43 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Atchison, Douglas, Franklin, Geary, Jackson, Jefferson and 10 more | 92 min |
| Jul 19, 5:42 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Barber, Clark, Comanche, Edwards, Finney, Ford and 10 more | 3 hr |
| Jul 19, 9:58 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Andrew, Bates, Benton, Boone, Caldwell, Callaway and 45 more | 2 hr |
| Jul 19, 11:22 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Barry, Barton, Bates, Benton, Caldwell, Callaway and 47 more | 10 hr |
| Jul 19, 2:15 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Bollinger, Butler, Carter, Christian, Dallas, Dent and 27 more | 2 hr |
| Jul 19, 2:32 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Mercer, Putnam, Schuyler | 118 min |
| Jul 19, 3:11 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Clark, Scotland | 6 hr |
| Jul 19, 5:18 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Clark, Schuyler, Scotland | 57 min |
| Jul 19, 6:26 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Clark, Knox, Lewis, Lincoln, Marion, Pike and 1 more | 64 min |
| Jul 19, 6:49 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Knox, Lewis, Lincoln, Marion, Pike, Ralls and 4 more | 7 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.