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Severe Thunderstorm Watch 342
The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at Aug 18, 2018, 6:55 PM CDT for 11 counties in Kansas; Beaver County, Cimarron County, Texas County, Oklahoma; 13 counties in Texas. It was in force for 3 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Aug 18, 2018, 6:55 PM CDT (23:55 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 18, 2018, 10:05 PM CDT
- In force
- 3 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
- Largest hail expected
- 1.5 in
- Strongest gust expected
- 60 kt
All 27 counties
Finney County, KS, Grant County, KS, Gray County, KS, Hamilton County, KS, Haskell County, KS, Kearny County, KS, Meade County, KS, Morton County, KS, Seward County, KS, Stanton County, KS, Stevens County, KS, Beaver County, OK, Cimarron County, OK, Texas County, OK, Armstrong County, TX, Carson County, TX, Dallam County, TX, Deaf Smith County, TX, Hansford County, TX, Hartley County, TX, Hutchinson County, TX, Moore County, TX, Ochiltree County, TX, Oldham County, TX, Potter County, TX, Randall County, TX, Sherman County, TX
The radar
The Dodge City radar (KDDC), 170 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:54 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
- 30%
- 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
- 10%
- Six or more combined severe hail and wind reports
- 60%
Warnings issued inside it
8 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 18, 6:58 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Hamilton, Kearny | 47 min |
| Aug 18, 7:08 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Grant, Kearny | 37 min |
| Aug 18, 7:26 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | DDC | Kearny | 3 hr |
| Aug 18, 7:34 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | DDC | Grant, Kearny | 3 hr |
| Aug 18, 7:38 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Grant, Kearny | 52 min |
| Aug 18, 7:54 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DDC | Grant | 21 min |
| Aug 18, 8:28 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Finney, Grant, Haskell, Kearny | 32 min |
| Aug 18, 9:40 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | DDC | Grant, Kearny | 4 hr |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 18, 1:25 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Baca, Bent, Cheyenne, Crowley, El Paso, Kiowa and 5 more | 2 hr |
| Aug 18, 1:47 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Baca, Bent, Cheyenne, Crowley, Elbert, El Paso and 8 more | 7 hr |
| Aug 18, 3:26 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Phillips, Sedgwick | 3 hr |
| Aug 18, 3:50 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Baca, Bent, Cheyenne, Crowley, Elbert, El Paso and 7 more | 55 min |
| Aug 18, 6:34 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Baca, Prowers | 116 min |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Watches in Texas, 2018Severe Thunderstorm Watches in Kansas, 2018Severe Thunderstorm Watches in Oklahoma, 2018Every severe thunderstorm watch in 2018
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.