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Severe Thunderstorm Watch 372
The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at Jul 15, 2020, 1:25 AM CDT for 10 counties in Kansas. It was in force for 3 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 15, 2020, 1:25 AM CDT (06:25 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 15, 2020, 3:57 AM CDT
- In force
- 3 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
- Largest hail expected
- 1.5 in
- Strongest gust expected
- 60 kt
Counties Chase County, KS, Dickinson County, KS, Harvey County, KS, Lyon County, KS, Marion County, KS, McPherson County, KS, Morris County, KS, Reno County, KS, Rice County, KS, Wabaunsee County, KS
The radar
The Wichita radar (KICT), 83 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 06:26 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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What SPC expected
The probabilities SPC published with the watch, for the watch area over its life.
- Two or more tornadoes
- 5%
- One or more EF2 to EF5 tornadoes
- 2%
- Ten or more severe wind reports
- 40%
- 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
- 60%
Warnings issued inside it
4 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 15, 1:30 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Harvey, McPherson, Reno, Rice | 60 min |
| Jul 15, 2:06 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Harvey, McPherson, Marion | 54 min |
| Jul 15, 2:33 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Dickinson, Morris | 57 min |
| Jul 15, 2:57 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Chase, Marion | 48 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 00:00Z, 6.4 hours before the alert went out and 168 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
- 7306 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -35 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1110 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 22 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 62 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 152 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 4.9
- Supercell composite
- 26.6
SPC that day
Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 14, 8:13 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Barber, Clark, Comanche, Edwards, Finney, Ford and 15 more | 7 hr |
| Jul 14, 9:24 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Finney, Grant, Gray, Hamilton, Haskell, Kearny and 5 more | 2 hr |
| Jul 14, 11:21 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Barber, Clark, Comanche, Edwards, Ford, Gray and 11 more | 114 min |
| Jul 15, 1:07 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Butler, Chase, Geary, Greenwood, Harvey, Kingman and 6 more | 53 min |
| Jul 15, 6:14 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Grant, Greeley, Hamilton, Kearny, Logan, Morton and 4 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.