Alert archive / Kansas / Severe Thunderstorm Watches in 2018
Severe Thunderstorm Watch 321
The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at Jul 29, 2018, 1:59 AM CDT for 21 counties in Kansas; 16 counties in Oklahoma. It was in force for 5 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 29, 2018, 1:59 AM CDT (06:59 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 29, 2018, 7:07 AM CDT
- In force
- 5 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
- Largest hail expected
- 2 in
- Strongest gust expected
- 60 kt
All 37 counties
Barber County, KS, Barton County, KS, Butler County, KS, Chase County, KS, Chautauqua County, KS, Cowley County, KS, Elk County, KS, Ellsworth County, KS, Greenwood County, KS, Harper County, KS, Harvey County, KS, Kingman County, KS, Marion County, KS, McPherson County, KS, Pratt County, KS, Reno County, KS, Rice County, KS, Saline County, KS, Sedgwick County, KS, Stafford County, KS, Sumner County, KS, Alfalfa County, OK, Creek County, OK, Garfield County, OK, Grant County, OK, Kay County, OK, Lincoln County, OK, Logan County, OK, Noble County, OK, Nowata County, OK, Osage County, OK, Pawnee County, OK, Payne County, OK, Rogers County, OK, Tulsa County, OK, Wagoner County, OK, Washington County, OK
The radar
The Wichita radar (KICT), 3 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 07:01 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
- 2%
- Ten or more severe wind reports
- 60%
- One or more gusts of 65 knots or more
- 20%
- 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
- 80%
Warnings issued inside it
10 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 29, 2:00 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Ellsworth | 30 min |
| Jul 29, 2:29 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Harvey, McPherson, Reno, Rice, Saline | 61 min |
| Jul 29, 2:43 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Alfalfa, Woods, Woodward | 47 min |
| Jul 29, 2:44 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Harvey, Kingman, Reno | 61 min |
| Jul 29, 3:07 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | DDC | Pratt | 3 hr |
| Jul 29, 3:08 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Harvey, Reno, Sedgwick | 39 min |
| Jul 29, 3:23 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Alfalfa, Garfield, Grant, Major | 52 min |
| Jul 29, 4:11 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Garfield, Grant, Kay, Noble | 49 min |
| Jul 29, 4:37 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Osage, Pawnee | 53 min |
| Jul 29, 5:28 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Osage, Pawnee | 47 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, 7.0 hours before the alert went out and 214 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
- 1797 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -91 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1480 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 28 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 29 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 94 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.2
- Supercell composite
- 3.8
SPC that day
Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 28, 10:46 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Decatur, Gove, Graham, Logan, Norton, Rawlins and 2 more | 89 min |
| Jul 28, 11:10 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Barber, Barton, Clark, Comanche, Edwards, Finney and 12 more | 2 hr |
| Jul 29, 4:00 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Butler, Chautauqua, Cowley, Harper, Harvey, Sedgwick and 1 more | 2 hr |
| Jul 29, 1:46 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Cheyenne, Rawlins, Sherman | 59 min |
| Jul 29, 2:07 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Greeley, Sherman, Wallace | 8 hr |
| Jul 29, 2:34 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Cheyenne, Gove, Logan, Rawlins, Sheridan, Thomas and 1 more | 7 hr |
| Jul 29, 5:07 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Cheyenne, Decatur, Gove, Lane, Logan, Rawlins and 5 more | 53 min |
| Jul 29, 6:23 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Cheyenne, Greeley, Sherman, Wallace | 67 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.