Alert archive / Kansas / Severe Thunderstorm Watches in 2019
Severe Thunderstorm Watch 628
The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at Aug 29, 2019, 7:50 PM CDT for 65 counties in Kansas; Jefferson County, Nebraska. It was in force for 7 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Aug 29, 2019, 7:50 PM CDT (00:50 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 30, 2019, 3:00 AM CDT
- In force
- 7 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
- Largest hail expected
- 2 in
- Strongest gust expected
- 60 kt
All 66 counties
Allen County, KS, Anderson County, KS, Barber County, KS, Barton County, KS, Brown County, KS, Butler County, KS, Chase County, KS, Chautauqua County, KS, Clay County, KS, Cloud County, KS, Coffey County, KS, Cowley County, KS, Dickinson County, KS, Douglas County, KS, Edwards County, KS, Elk County, KS, Ellis County, KS, Ellsworth County, KS, Finney County, KS, Ford County, KS, Franklin County, KS, Geary County, KS, Gray County, KS, Greenwood County, KS, Harper County, KS, Harvey County, KS, Hodgeman County, KS, Jackson County, KS, Jefferson County, KS, Kingman County, KS, Kiowa County, KS, Labette County, KS, Lane County, KS, Lincoln County, KS, Lyon County, KS, Marion County, KS, Marshall County, KS, McPherson County, KS, Montgomery County, KS, Morris County, KS, Nemaha County, KS, Neosho County, KS, Ness County, KS, Osage County, KS, Ottawa County, KS, Pawnee County, KS, Pottawatomie County, KS, Pratt County, KS, Reno County, KS, Republic County, KS, Rice County, KS, Riley County, KS, Rush County, KS, Russell County, KS, Saline County, KS, Scott County, KS, Sedgwick County, KS, Shawnee County, KS, Stafford County, KS, Sumner County, KS, Trego County, KS, Wabaunsee County, KS, Washington County, KS, Wilson County, KS, Woodson County, KS, Jefferson County, NE
The radar
The Topeka radar (KTWX), 137 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:51 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
- 70%
- One or more gusts of 65 knots or more
- 20%
- Ten or more severe hail reports
- 40%
- One or more hailstones of 2 inches or more
- 30%
- Six or more combined severe hail and wind reports
- 95%
Warnings issued inside it
37 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 29, 8:44 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Ellis, Trego | 46 min |
| Aug 29, 8:55 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Edwards, Ford, Hodgeman | 50 min |
| Aug 29, 9:07 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Ellis, Ness, Rush, Trego | 53 min |
| Aug 29, 9:12 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Cloud, Republic | 48 min |
| Aug 29, 9:14 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Edwards, Ford, Hodgeman, Kiowa | 46 min |
| Aug 29, 9:28 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Brown | 47 min |
| Aug 29, 9:36 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Cloud, Ottawa | 24 min |
| Aug 29, 9:37 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Barton, Ellsworth, Lincoln, Russell | 83 min |
| Aug 29, 10:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Clay, Cloud, Dickinson, Ottawa, Republic, Washington | 45 min |
| Aug 29, 10:02 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Comanche, Edwards, Kiowa, Pratt | 43 min |
| Aug 29, 10:06 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Ellis, Rush | 39 min |
| Aug 29, 10:14 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Clark, Ford | 18 min |
| Aug 29, 10:15 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Brown, Nemaha | 30 min |
| Aug 29, 10:30 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Ellsworth, McPherson, Reno, Rice, Saline | 75 min |
| Aug 29, 10:45 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Ottawa | 45 min |
| Aug 29, 10:54 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Barton | 36 min |
| Aug 29, 10:58 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Barber, Clark, Comanche, Ford, Kiowa, Pratt | 47 min |
| Aug 29, 10:59 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | TOP | Brown | 4 hr |
| Aug 29, 11:07 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Pawnee, Stafford | 38 min |
| Aug 29, 11:16 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Harvey, Kingman, Reno, Sedgwick | 89 min |
| Aug 29, 11:25 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | TOP | Marshall, Nemaha | 4 hr |
| Aug 29, 11:28 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Barber, Comanche, Pratt | 47 min |
| Aug 29, 11:38 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Dickinson, Morris | 37 min |
| Aug 29, 11:43 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | McPherson, Marion, Saline | 77 min |
| Aug 29, 11:50 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Pottawatomie, Wabaunsee | 40 min |
| Aug 30, 12:01 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Geary, Pottawatomie, Riley, Wabaunsee | 29 min |
| Aug 30, 12:10 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Barber, Pratt | 35 min |
| Aug 30, 12:22 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Geary, Lyon, Morris, Osage, Pottawatomie, Riley and 1 more | 38 min |
| Aug 30, 12:44 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Geary, Morris | 46 min |
| Aug 30, 12:51 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Lyon, Morris, Wabaunsee | 39 min |
| Aug 30, 1:14 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | TOP | Geary, Pottawatomie, Riley, Wabaunsee | 4 hr |
| Aug 30, 1:28 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Coffey, Lyon, Osage | 47 min |
| Aug 30, 1:37 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Anderson, Coffey, Lyon, Osage | 38 min |
| Aug 30, 1:43 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Greenwood, Wilson, Woodson | 62 min |
| Aug 30, 2:04 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Anderson, Coffey, Franklin, Osage | 41 min |
| Aug 30, 2:11 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Allen, Neosho | 64 min |
| Aug 30, 2:15 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Chautauqua, Labette, Montgomery, Neosho, Wilson | 75 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 29, 7:15 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Allen, Anderson, Atchison, Barton, Brown, Butler and 68 more | 2 hr |
| Aug 29, 9:52 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Allen, Anderson, Atchison, Barber, Barton, Bourbon and 68 more | 83 min |
| Aug 29, 10:53 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Doniphan | 37 min |
| Aug 29, 11:47 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Butler, Chase, Chautauqua, Coffey, Cowley, Dickinson and 23 more | 88 min |
| Aug 30, 2:31 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Allen, Anderson, Bourbon, Chautauqua, Cherokee, Coffey and 10 more | 89 min |
| Aug 30, 5:54 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Banner, Box Butte, Morrill, Scotts Bluff, Sioux | 96 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.