Alert archive / Kansas / Severe Thunderstorm Watches in 2020
Severe Thunderstorm Watch 445
The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at Aug 16, 2020, 8:09 PM CDT for 10 counties in Kansas. It was in force for 3 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Aug 16, 2020, 8:09 PM CDT (01:09 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 16, 2020, 11:19 PM CDT
- In force
- 3 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
- Largest hail expected
- 1.5 in
- Strongest gust expected
- 60 kt
Counties Clay County, KS, Cloud County, KS, Dickinson County, KS, Geary County, KS, Morris County, KS, Ottawa County, KS, Republic County, KS, Riley County, KS, Saline County, KS, Washington County, KS
The radar
The Topeka radar (KTWX), 118 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:10 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
- 10%
- Ten or more severe hail reports
- 30%
- One or more hailstones of 2 inches or more
- 10%
- Six or more combined severe hail and wind reports
- 70%
Warnings issued inside it
2 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 16, 8:26 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Clay, Cloud, Geary, Marshall, Pottawatomie, Riley and 1 more | 49 min |
| Aug 16, 9:12 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Clay, Dickinson, Geary, Pottawatomie, Riley | 63 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, 1.2 hours before the alert went out and 166 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
- 2445 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 29 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 75 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 138 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 16, 7:23 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Barton, Clay, Cloud, Dickinson, Ellis, Ellsworth and 14 more | 97 min |
| Aug 16, 9:31 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Chase, Clay, Cloud, Dickinson, Geary, Harvey and 6 more | 59 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.