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Tornado Watch 616
The Storm Prediction Center issued this tornado watch at Aug 24, 2019, 5:26 PM CDT for 50 counties in Kansas; 5 counties in Nebraska. It was in force for 7 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Aug 24, 2019, 5:26 PM CDT (22:26 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 25, 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 55 counties
Barber County, KS, Barton County, KS, Cheyenne County, KS, Clark County, KS, Comanche County, KS, Decatur County, KS, Edwards County, KS, Ellis County, KS, Ellsworth County, KS, Finney County, KS, Ford County, KS, Gove County, KS, Graham County, KS, Grant County, KS, Gray County, KS, Greeley County, KS, Hamilton County, KS, Haskell County, KS, Hodgeman County, KS, Kearny County, KS, Kiowa County, KS, Lane County, KS, Lincoln County, KS, Logan County, KS, Meade County, KS, Mitchell County, KS, Morton County, KS, Ness County, KS, Norton County, KS, Osborne County, KS, Pawnee County, KS, Phillips County, KS, Pratt County, KS, Rawlins County, KS, Rice County, KS, Rooks County, KS, Rush County, KS, Russell County, KS, Scott County, KS, Seward County, KS, Sheridan County, KS, Sherman County, KS, Smith County, KS, Stafford County, KS, Stanton County, KS, Stevens County, KS, Thomas County, KS, Trego County, KS, Wallace County, KS, Wichita County, KS, Dundy County, NE, Furnas County, NE, Harlan County, NE, Hitchcock County, NE, Red Willow County, NE
The radar
The Goodland radar (KGLD), 88 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:26 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
- 30%
- One or more EF2 to EF5 tornadoes
- 20%
- Ten or more severe wind reports
- 60%
- One or more gusts of 65 knots or more
- 50%
- Ten or more severe hail reports
- 70%
- One or more hailstones of 2 inches or more
- 70%
- Six or more combined severe hail and wind reports
- 95%
Warnings issued inside it
44 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 24, 5:30 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Morton, Stanton | 60 min |
| Aug 24, 6:43 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Dundy | 47 min |
| Aug 24, 7:23 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Dundy | 52 min |
| Aug 24, 7:27 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Russell | 33 min |
| Aug 24, 7:37 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Hamilton | 68 min |
| Aug 24, 7:43 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Hamilton | 62 min |
| Aug 24, 7:51 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Cheyenne | 40 min |
| Aug 24, 8:09 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Decatur | 51 min |
| Aug 24, 8:20 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Barton, Russell | 40 min |
| Aug 24, 8:22 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Hamilton, Kearny, Stanton | 53 min |
| Aug 24, 8:26 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Norton | 46 min |
| Aug 24, 8:30 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Wichita | 26 min |
| Aug 24, 8:32 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Finney, Kearny, Lane, Scott | 58 min |
| Aug 24, 8:34 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ICT | Barton, Russell | 26 min |
| Aug 24, 8:37 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Sheridan | 53 min |
| Aug 24, 8:44 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | GLD | Sheridan | 30 min |
| Aug 24, 8:52 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Decatur | 53 min |
| Aug 24, 8:59 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Barton, Ellsworth, Russell | 46 min |
| Aug 24, 9:02 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | GLD | Graham, Sheridan | 6 hr |
| Aug 24, 9:02 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Graham | 58 min |
| Aug 24, 9:05 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Hamilton, Kearny | 55 min |
| Aug 24, 9:09 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Grant, Hamilton, Kearny, Stanton | 66 min |
| Aug 24, 9:15 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ICT | Barton, Ellsworth | 45 min |
| Aug 24, 9:25 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | GLD | Graham | 35 min |
| Aug 24, 9:28 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Sheridan | 47 min |
| Aug 24, 9:30 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Trego | 60 min |
| Aug 24, 9:38 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | GID | Phillips, Smith | 8 hr |
| Aug 24, 9:42 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Finney, Grant, Haskell, Kearny | 48 min |
| Aug 24, 9:47 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ICT | Ellsworth | 43 min |
| Aug 24, 9:58 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Rooks | 29 min |
| Aug 24, 10:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Gove, Graham, Sheridan | 45 min |
| Aug 24, 10:22 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | GID | Osborne, Phillips, Rooks, Smith | 7 hr |
| Aug 24, 10:24 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Ellsworth | 36 min |
| Aug 24, 10:25 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Ellis, Trego | 65 min |
| Aug 24, 10:26 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Osborne | 29 min |
| Aug 24, 10:29 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Grant, Haskell, Seward | 34 min |
| Aug 24, 11:01 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Ellis, Ness, Rush, Trego | 74 min |
| Aug 24, 11:01 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Ellsworth | 29 min |
| Aug 24, 11:11 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Barton, Lincoln, Russell | 64 min |
| Aug 24, 11:14 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Haskell, Meade, Seward | 27 min |
| Aug 24, 11:14 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Jewell, Mitchell, Osborne, Smith | 25 min |
| Aug 24, 11:38 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Ellis, Ness, Pawnee, Rush | 67 min |
| Aug 24, 11:46 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | GID | Jewell, Mitchell | 6 hr |
| Aug 24, 11:58 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Barton, Ellsworth, Lincoln, Rice | 62 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 12:00Z, 10.4 hours before the alert went out and 165 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1227 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 33 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 190 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 94 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- -0.0
SPC that day
Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 23, 9:08 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Finney, Grant, Gray, Greeley, Hamilton, Haskell and 11 more | 2 hr |
| Aug 24, 3:55 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Barton, Cheyenne, Decatur, Edwards, Ellis, Finney and 23 more | 2 hr |
| Aug 24, 5:01 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Morton | 89 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.