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Severe Thunderstorm Watch 657
The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at Sep 21, 2019, 5:07 PM CDT for 39 counties in Kansas; 18 counties in Nebraska. It was in force for 7 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Sep 21, 2019, 5:07 PM CDT (22:07 UTC)
- Expired
- Sep 22, 2019, 12:00 AM CDT
- In force
- 7 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
- Largest hail expected
- 2.5 in
- Strongest gust expected
- 65 kt
All 57 counties
Barton County, KS, Clay County, KS, Cloud County, KS, Dickinson County, KS, Edwards County, KS, Ellis County, KS, Ellsworth County, KS, Finney County, KS, Ford County, KS, Geary County, KS, Grant County, KS, Gray County, KS, Haskell County, KS, Hodgeman County, KS, Jewell County, KS, Lane County, KS, Lincoln County, KS, Marshall County, KS, McPherson County, KS, Mitchell County, KS, Morris County, KS, Nemaha County, KS, Ness County, KS, Osborne County, KS, Ottawa County, KS, Pawnee County, KS, Pottawatomie County, KS, Republic County, KS, Rice County, KS, Riley County, KS, Rooks County, KS, Rush County, KS, Russell County, KS, Saline County, KS, Smith County, KS, Stafford County, KS, Trego County, KS, Wabaunsee County, KS, Washington County, KS, Cass County, NE, Dodge County, NE, Douglas County, NE, Fillmore County, NE, Gage County, NE, Jefferson County, NE, Johnson County, NE, Lancaster County, NE, Nemaha County, NE, Nuckolls County, NE, Otoe County, NE, Pawnee County, NE, Richardson County, NE, Saline County, NE, Sarpy County, NE, Saunders County, NE, Thayer County, NE, Washington County, NE
The radar
The Topeka radar (KTWX), 114 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:08 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
- 20%
- One or more EF2 to EF5 tornadoes
- 5%
- Ten or more severe wind reports
- 40%
- One or more gusts of 65 knots or more
- 30%
- Ten or more severe hail reports
- 40%
- One or more hailstones of 2 inches or more
- 40%
- Six or more combined severe hail and wind reports
- 70%
Warnings issued inside it
22 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 21, 5:16 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Lane, Ness, Trego | 44 min |
| Sep 21, 5:48 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Trego | 39 min |
| Sep 21, 6:13 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Ellis, Ness, Rush, Trego | 47 min |
| Sep 21, 6:39 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Ellis, Ness, Rush | 51 min |
| Sep 21, 6:59 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Thayer | 46 min |
| Sep 21, 7:09 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Osborne, Rooks | 24 min |
| Sep 21, 7:22 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OAX | Jefferson, Saline | 38 min |
| Sep 21, 7:23 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OAX | Lancaster | 24 min |
| Sep 21, 7:25 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Ellis, Rush | 50 min |
| Sep 21, 7:26 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Jewell, Mitchell, Osborne, Smith | 49 min |
| Sep 21, 7:40 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OAX | Gage, Lancaster | 35 min |
| Sep 21, 7:50 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Barton, Russell | 85 min |
| Sep 21, 8:06 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | TOP | Republic | 6 hr |
| Sep 21, 8:09 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OAX | Saunders | 36 min |
| Sep 21, 8:19 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OAX | Saunders | 26 min |
| Sep 21, 8:39 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OAX | Dodge, Douglas, Saunders, Washington | 36 min |
| Sep 21, 8:51 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OAX | Dodge, Douglas, Washington | 24 min |
| Sep 21, 8:56 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Ellsworth, Lincoln | 67 min |
| Sep 21, 9:08 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Clay, Cloud, Ottawa, Republic, Washington | 52 min |
| Sep 21, 9:10 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OAX | Burt, Washington | 35 min |
| Sep 21, 9:27 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Marshall, Washington | 48 min |
| Sep 21, 9:46 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | TOP | Republic, Washington | 6 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 21, 3:29 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Ellis, Finney, Jewell, Lane, Ness, Osborne and 4 more | 2 hr |
| Sep 20, 7:53 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Box Butte, Cherry, Dawes, Morrill, Scotts Bluff, Sheridan and 1 more | 2 hr |
| Sep 20, 10:20 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Cherry, Dawes, Sheridan | 115 min |
| Sep 21, 1:33 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Dakota | 87 min |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Watches in Kansas, 2019Severe Thunderstorm Watches in Nebraska, 2019Every severe thunderstorm watch in 2019
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.