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Severe Thunderstorm Watch 347

July 9, 20204 states

The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at Jul 9, 2020, 1:09 AM CDT for 4 states. It was in force for 11 hr.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued
Jul 9, 2020, 1:09 AM CDT (06:09 UTC)
Expired
Jul 9, 2020, 12:00 PM CDT
In force
11 hr
Issued by
the Storm Prediction Center
Largest hail expected
1.5 in
Strongest gust expected
70 kt
All 108 counties

Benton County, AR, Carroll County, AR, Crawford County, AR, Franklin County, AR, Madison County, AR, Sebastian County, AR, Washington County, AR, Allen County, KS, Anderson County, KS, Atchison County, KS, Bourbon County, KS, Brown County, KS, Butler County, KS, Chase County, KS, Chautauqua County, KS, Cherokee County, KS, Coffey County, KS, Cowley County, KS, Crawford County, KS, Doniphan County, KS, Douglas County, KS, Elk County, KS, Franklin County, KS, Greenwood County, KS, Harvey County, KS, Jackson County, KS, Jefferson County, KS, Johnson County, KS, Labette County, KS, Leavenworth County, KS, Linn County, KS, Lyon County, KS, Marion County, KS, McPherson County, KS, Miami County, KS, Montgomery County, KS, Morris County, KS, Neosho County, KS, Osage County, KS, Shawnee County, KS, Wabaunsee County, KS, Wilson County, KS, Woodson County, KS, Wyandotte County, KS, Andrew County, MO, Atchison County, MO, Barry County, MO, Barton County, MO, Bates County, MO, Benton County, MO, Buchanan County, MO, Caldwell County, MO, Camden County, MO, Carroll County, MO, Cass County, MO, Cedar County, MO, Christian County, MO, Clay County, MO, Clinton County, MO, Cooper County, MO, Dade County, MO, Dallas County, MO, Daviess County, MO, DeKalb County, MO, Gentry County, MO, Greene County, MO, Harrison County, MO, Henry County, MO, Hickory County, MO, Holt County, MO, Jackson County, MO, Jasper County, MO, Johnson County, MO, Lafayette County, MO, Lawrence County, MO, Livingston County, MO, McDonald County, MO, Morgan County, MO, Newton County, MO, Nodaway County, MO, Pettis County, MO, Platte County, MO, Polk County, MO, Ray County, MO, Saline County, MO, St. Clair County, MO, Stone County, MO, Vernon County, MO, Webster County, MO, Worth County, MO, Adair County, OK, Cherokee County, OK, Craig County, OK, Delaware County, OK, Haskell County, OK, LeFlore County, OK, Mayes County, OK, McIntosh County, OK, Muskogee County, OK, Nowata County, OK, Okmulgee County, OK, Osage County, OK, Ottawa County, OK, Rogers County, OK, Sequoyah County, OK, Tulsa County, OK, Wagoner County, OK, Washington County, OK

The radar

The Pleasant Hill radar (KEAX), 119 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 06:09 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
10%
One or more EF2 to EF5 tornadoes
2%
Ten or more severe wind reports
90%
One or more gusts of 65 knots or more
50%
Ten or more severe hail reports
20%
One or more hailstones of 2 inches or more
5%
Six or more combined severe hail and wind reports
95%

Warnings issued inside it

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jul 9, 1:35 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTOPBrown, Clay, Dickinson, Geary, Jackson, Marshall and 5 more55 min
Jul 9, 2:09 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTOPBrown, Geary, Jackson, Jefferson, Nemaha, Pottawatomie and 3 more66 min
Jul 9, 2:09 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEAXAndrew, Atchison, Holt, Nodaway36 min
Jul 9, 2:30 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEAXAtchison, Doniphan, Johnson, Leavenworth, Wyandotte45 min
Jul 9, 2:40 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEAXAndrew, Atchison, Holt, Nodaway35 min
Jul 9, 2:45 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningICTChase, Marion60 min
Jul 9, 3:15 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTOPAnderson, Coffey, Franklin, Lyon, Osage, Wabaunsee60 min
Jul 9, 3:19 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTOPDouglas, Franklin, Jefferson, Osage, Shawnee56 min
Jul 9, 4:13 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTOPAnderson, Coffey, Franklin, Lyon62 min
Jul 9, 9:44 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTSABenton, Washington46 min
Jul 9, 10:18 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTSACrawford, Franklin, Madison, Sebastian, Washington57 min
Jul 9, 11:14 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTSACrawford, Franklin, Sebastian61 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
Jul 9, 7:16 AM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCBenton, Boone, Carroll, Madison, Marion, Newton and 1 more119 min
Jul 9, 10:46 AM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCCarroll, Clark, Cleburne, Cleveland, Conway, Crawford and 33 more119 min
Jul 9, 12:13 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPCArkansas, Clark, Cleburne, Cleveland, Conway, Dallas and 22 more5 hr
Jul 9, 3:41 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCArkansas, Ashley, Bradley, Calhoun, Chicot, Cleveland and 14 more94 min
Jul 8, 8:39 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCClay, Cloud, Dickinson, Ellis, Ellsworth, Geary and 17 more96 min
Jul 8, 9:41 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPCClay, Cloud, Decatur, Dickinson, Ellis, Ellsworth and 23 more7 hr
Jul 8, 11:51 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCClay, Cloud, Jewell, Marshall, Ottawa, Republic and 2 more84 min
Jul 9, 3:10 AM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCAllen, Anderson, Atchison, Bourbon, Brown, Butler and 40 more2 hr
Jul 9, 3:37 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCGreeley, Sherman, Wallace83 min
Jul 9, 10:24 AM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCSchuyler, Scotland3 hr
Jul 8, 7:32 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCBlaine, Brown, Chase, Holt, Hooker, Keith and 7 more58 min
Jul 9, 1:51 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCBox Butte, Dawes, Sheridan, Sioux114 min
Jul 9, 5:42 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCBeckham, Greer, Harmon, Roger Mills93 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.