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Severe Thunderstorm Watch 182
The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at May 14, 2020, 4:24 PM CDT for 19 counties in Iowa; 22 counties in Kansas; 21 counties in Missouri. It was in force for 9 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- May 14, 2020, 4:24 PM CDT (21:24 UTC)
- Expired
- May 15, 2020, 12:57 AM CDT
- In force
- 9 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
- Largest hail expected
- 2 in
- Strongest gust expected
- 60 kt
All 62 counties
Appanoose County, IA, Clarke County, IA, Dallas County, IA, Davis County, IA, Decatur County, IA, Jasper County, IA, Lucas County, IA, Madison County, IA, Mahaska County, IA, Marion County, IA, Monroe County, IA, Polk County, IA, Poweshiek County, IA, Ringgold County, IA, Taylor County, IA, Union County, IA, Wapello County, IA, Warren County, IA, Wayne County, IA, Anderson County, KS, Atchison County, KS, Brown County, KS, Coffey County, KS, Doniphan County, KS, Douglas County, KS, Franklin County, KS, Geary County, KS, Jackson County, KS, Jefferson County, KS, Johnson County, KS, Leavenworth County, KS, Lyon County, KS, Miami County, KS, Morris County, KS, Nemaha County, KS, Osage County, KS, Pottawatomie County, KS, Riley County, KS, Shawnee County, KS, Wabaunsee County, KS, Wyandotte County, KS, Andrew County, MO, Buchanan County, MO, Caldwell County, MO, Clay County, MO, Clinton County, MO, Daviess County, MO, DeKalb County, MO, Gentry County, MO, Grundy County, MO, Harrison County, MO, Holt County, MO, Jackson County, MO, Livingston County, MO, Mercer County, MO, Nodaway County, MO, Platte County, MO, Putnam County, MO, Ray County, MO, Schuyler County, MO, Sullivan County, MO, Worth County, MO
The radar
The Pleasant Hill radar (KEAX), 120 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:25 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
- 50%
- One or more hailstones of 2 inches or more
- 30%
- Six or more combined severe hail and wind reports
- 80%
Warnings issued inside it
53 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 14, 4:46 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DMX | Clarke, Lucas, Marion, Warren | 29 min |
| May 14, 5:01 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DMX | Clarke, Warren | 29 min |
| May 14, 5:11 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Nodaway | 34 min |
| May 14, 5:14 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DMX | Lucas, Marion, Monroe, Warren | 46 min |
| May 14, 5:29 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DMX | Clarke, Lucas, Marion, Warren | 31 min |
| May 14, 5:31 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Nodaway, Worth | 44 min |
| May 14, 5:44 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DMX | Clarke, Lucas, Union, Warren | 31 min |
| May 14, 5:57 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DMX | Mahaska, Marion, Monroe | 48 min |
| May 14, 5:57 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Lyon, Osage | 48 min |
| May 14, 6:12 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Gentry, Nodaway, Worth | 33 min |
| May 14, 6:20 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DMX | Mahaska, Monroe, Wapello | 40 min |
| May 14, 6:56 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DMX | Mahaska, Monroe, Wapello | 49 min |
| May 14, 7:01 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Linn, Livingston | 29 min |
| May 14, 7:28 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Gentry, Harrison, Mercer, Worth | 47 min |
| May 14, 7:30 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Adair, Linn, Macon, Sullivan | 45 min |
| May 14, 7:37 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Adair, Linn, Macon, Schuyler | 38 min |
| May 14, 7:38 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Geary, Morris, Wabaunsee | 52 min |
| May 14, 8:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Lyon, Morris, Wabaunsee | 45 min |
| May 14, 8:08 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Gentry, Nodaway, Worth | 37 min |
| May 14, 8:12 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DMX | Davis, Wapello | 18 min |
| May 14, 8:15 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Dickinson, Geary, Morris | 45 min |
| May 14, 8:17 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Jackson, Pottawatomie | 43 min |
| May 14, 8:19 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Wabaunsee | 41 min |
| May 14, 8:38 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Lyon, Morris, Osage, Wabaunsee | 52 min |
| May 14, 8:54 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Brown, Nemaha | 51 min |
| May 14, 8:56 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | TOP | Lyon, Wabaunsee | 34 min |
| May 14, 8:58 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Jackson, Nemaha | 47 min |
| May 14, 8:59 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Atchison, Doniphan, Leavenworth | 31 min |
| May 14, 8:59 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | TOP | Morris | 18 min |
| May 14, 9:01 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Geary, Morris, Osage, Shawnee, Wabaunsee | 44 min |
| May 14, 9:02 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | TOP | Jackson | 3 hr |
| May 14, 9:05 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Gentry, Nodaway, Worth | 25 min |
| May 14, 9:27 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | TOP | Lyon | 33 min |
| May 14, 9:27 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Nodaway, Worth | 33 min |
| May 14, 9:31 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Coffey, Lyon, Morris, Osage, Wabaunsee | 44 min |
| May 14, 9:47 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Andrew, Daviess, DeKalb, Gentry | 43 min |
| May 14, 9:55 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | TOP | Coffey, Lyon, Osage | 35 min |
| May 14, 10:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Putnam, Schuyler | 45 min |
| May 14, 10:08 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Coffey, Lyon, Osage | 52 min |
| May 14, 10:16 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | TOP | Lyon, Morris, Wabaunsee | 4 hr |
| May 14, 10:29 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Adair, Linn, Macon, Sullivan | 46 min |
| May 14, 10:30 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Anderson, Coffey, Franklin, Osage | 60 min |
| May 14, 10:34 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EAX | Andrew, Daviess, DeKalb, Gentry, Grundy, Harrison and 5 more | 6 hr |
| May 14, 10:36 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | TOP | Brown | 3 hr |
| May 14, 10:49 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Franklin | 41 min |
| May 14, 10:59 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Lyon | 46 min |
| May 14, 11:02 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | TOP | Coffey, Lyon, Osage | 3 hr |
| May 14, 11:04 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | TOP | Lyon | 26 min |
| May 14, 11:09 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Caldwell, Daviess, Linn, Livingston | 51 min |
| May 14, 11:20 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Linn, Miami | 25 min |
| May 14, 11:39 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | TOP | Anderson | 4 hr |
| May 14, 11:51 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Coffey | 39 min |
| May 15, 12:15 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Anderson | 45 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
Topeka, KS (KTOP), launched 12:00Z, 9.4 hours before the alert went out and 113 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
- 741 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -165 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 626 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 34 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 174 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 197 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 1.2
SPC that day
Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 13, 11:48 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Adams, Decatur, Fremont, Mills, Montgomery, Page and 2 more | 2 hr |
| May 14, 3:55 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Appanoose, Clarke, Davis, Decatur, Jefferson, Lucas and 6 more | 95 min |
| May 14, 5:19 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Des Moines, Henry, Jefferson, Lee, Louisa, Muscatine and 3 more | 116 min |
| May 14, 6:01 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Appanoose, Clarke, Decatur, Lucas, Ringgold, Wayne | 119 min |
| May 14, 6:15 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Cedar, Clinton, Des Moines, Henry, Iowa, Jefferson and 8 more | 8 hr |
| May 14, 1:41 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Barry, Barton, Bates, Benton, Camden, Cedar and 29 more | 2 hr |
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.