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Severe Thunderstorm Watch 77

April 17, 20196 counties in Kansas; 29 counties in Missouri

The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at Apr 17, 2019, 5:24 PM CDT for 6 counties in Kansas; 29 counties in Missouri. It was in force for 7 hr.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued
Apr 17, 2019, 5:24 PM CDT (22:24 UTC)
Expired
Apr 18, 2019, 12:00 AM CDT
In force
7 hr
Issued by
the Storm Prediction Center
Largest hail expected
2 in
Strongest gust expected
60 kt
All 35 counties

Atchison County, KS, Johnson County, KS, Leavenworth County, KS, Linn County, KS, Miami County, KS, Wyandotte County, KS, Adair County, MO, Bates County, MO, Buchanan County, MO, Caldwell County, MO, Carroll County, MO, Cass County, MO, Chariton County, MO, Clay County, MO, Clinton County, MO, Cooper County, MO, Daviess County, MO, DeKalb County, MO, Grundy County, MO, Henry County, MO, Howard County, MO, Jackson County, MO, Johnson County, MO, Lafayette County, MO, Linn County, MO, Livingston County, MO, Macon County, MO, Pettis County, MO, Platte County, MO, Putnam County, MO, Randolph County, MO, Ray County, MO, Saline County, MO, Schuyler County, MO, Sullivan County, MO

The radar

The Pleasant Hill radar (KEAX), 73 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:24 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
50%
One or more gusts of 65 knots or more
20%
Ten or more severe hail reports
60%
One or more hailstones of 2 inches or more
30%
Six or more combined severe hail and wind reports
90%

Warnings issued inside it

9 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Apr 17, 5:42 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEAXJohnson, Miami36 min
Apr 17, 5:47 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEAXJohnson, Wyandotte58 min
Apr 17, 6:30 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEAXAtchison, Doniphan45 min
Apr 17, 8:23 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEAXCaldwell, Clay, Jackson, Ray37 min
Apr 17, 9:00 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEAXJohnson, Linn, Miami, Wyandotte60 min
Apr 17, 9:06 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEAXCarroll, Ray39 min
Apr 17, 9:42 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEAXCarroll, Chariton, Livingston, Saline63 min
Apr 17, 9:59 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEAXJohnson, Linn, Miami61 min
Apr 17, 10:49 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEAXBates, Cass, Henry, Johnson41 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.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Apr 17, 2:42 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCBarber, Butler, Chase, Coffey, Comanche, Cowley and 9 more3 hr
Apr 17, 4:27 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPCAllen, Anderson, Barber, Butler, Chase, Chautauqua and 22 more8 hr
Apr 17, 5:11 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCAtchison, Brown, Doniphan, Douglas, Jackson, Jefferson and 4 more94 min
Apr 17, 6:08 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCAllen, Anderson, Barber, Bourbon, Butler, Chautauqua and 16 more97 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Watches in Missouri, 2019Severe Thunderstorm Watches in Kansas, 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.