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Tornado Watch 695
The Storm Prediction Center issued this tornado watch at Nov 26, 2019, 6:20 PM CST for 55 counties in Missouri. It was in force for 6 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Nov 26, 2019, 6:20 PM CST (00:20 UTC)
- Expired
- Nov 27, 2019, 12:00 AM CST
- In force
- 6 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
- Largest hail expected
- 1 in
- Strongest gust expected
- 60 kt
All 55 counties
Audrain County, MO, Barry County, MO, Benton County, MO, Boone County, MO, Callaway County, MO, Camden County, MO, Christian County, MO, City of Saint Louis, MO, Cole County, MO, Cooper County, MO, Crawford County, MO, Dade County, MO, Dallas County, MO, Dent County, MO, Douglas County, MO, Franklin County, MO, Gasconade County, MO, Greene County, MO, Hickory County, MO, Howard County, MO, Iron County, MO, Jefferson County, MO, Laclede County, MO, Lawrence County, MO, Lincoln County, MO, Madison County, MO, Maries County, MO, Marion County, MO, Miller County, MO, Moniteau County, MO, Monroe County, MO, Montgomery County, MO, Morgan County, MO, Osage County, MO, Ozark County, MO, Pettis County, MO, Phelps County, MO, Pike County, MO, Polk County, MO, Pulaski County, MO, Ralls County, MO, Randolph County, MO, Reynolds County, MO, Saint Charles County, MO, Saint Francois County, MO, Saint Louis County, MO, Sainte Genevieve County, MO, Shelby County, MO, Stone County, MO, Taney County, MO, Texas County, MO, Warren County, MO, Washington County, MO, Webster County, MO, Wright County, MO
The radar
The Springfield radar (KSGF), 87 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:23 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
- 40%
- One or more EF2 to EF5 tornadoes
- 20%
- Ten or more severe wind reports
- 50%
- One or more gusts of 65 knots or more
- 20%
- Ten or more severe hail reports
- 20%
- One or more hailstones of 2 inches or more
- 10%
- Six or more combined severe hail and wind reports
- 70%
Warnings issued inside it
7 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nov 26, 6:22 PM CST | Tornado Warning | SGF | Barry | 23 min |
| Nov 26, 6:41 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | Barry, Christian, Lawrence, Stone | 34 min |
| Nov 26, 6:48 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | Greene, Lawrence | 27 min |
| Nov 26, 9:51 PM CST | Tornado Warning | LSX | Saint Francois, Washington | 24 min |
| Nov 26, 9:56 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | Audrain, Marion, Monroe, Ralls | 49 min |
| Nov 26, 9:58 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | Iron, Madison, Reynolds, Saint Francois | 32 min |
| Nov 26, 11:01 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | Sainte Genevieve | 29 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
Springfield, MO (KSGF), launched 00:00Z, 0.3 hours before the alert went out and 138 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
- 28 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -43 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1040 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 86 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 100 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 135 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nov 26, 9:32 PM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Pike | 118 min |
| Nov 26, 10:22 PM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Adams, Bond, Brown, Calhoun, Cass, Christian and 27 more | 4 hr |
| Nov 26, 11:32 PM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Champaign, Clark, Coles, Cumberland, DeWitt, Douglas and 14 more | 118 min |
| Nov 26, 6:03 PM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Audrain, Boone, Callaway, Camden, Christian, Cole and 27 more | 57 min |
| Nov 26, 7:31 PM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Butler, Carter, Howell, Oregon, Ripley | 119 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.