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Tornado Watch 37

March 13, 202420 counties in Kansas; 24 counties in Missouri

The Storm Prediction Center issued this tornado watch at Mar 13, 2024, 5:43 PM CDT for 20 counties in Kansas; 24 counties in Missouri. It was in force for 5 hr.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued: Mar 13, 2024, 5:43 PM CDT (22:43 UTC)
Expired: Mar 13, 2024, 11:02 PM CDT
In force: 5 hr
Issued by: the Storm Prediction Center
Largest hail expected: 2.5 in
Strongest gust expected: 60 kt

All 44 counties

Atchison County, KS, Coffey County, KS, Dickinson 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, 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, Carroll County, MO, Cass County, MO, Chariton County, MO, Clay County, MO, Clinton County, MO, Cooper County, MO, Daviess County, MO, DeKalb County, MO, Holt County, MO, Howard County, MO, Jackson County, MO, Johnson County, MO, Lafayette County, MO, Linn County, MO, Livingston County, MO, Macon County, MO, Pettis County, MO, Platte County, MO, Randolph County, MO, Ray County, MO, Saline County, MO

The radar

The Topeka radar (KTWX), 84 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:44 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: 60%
One or more gusts of 65 knots or more: 20%
Ten or more severe hail reports: 70%
One or more hailstones of 2 inches or more: 60%
Six or more combined severe hail and wind reports: 95%

Warnings issued inside it

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Mar 13, 6:42 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TOP	Morris	33 min
Mar 13, 6:53 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TOP	Geary, Morris	37 min
Mar 13, 7:11 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Johnson, Leavenworth, Wyandotte	49 min
Mar 13, 7:26 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TOP	Geary, Morris, Wabaunsee	34 min
Mar 13, 7:29 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TOP	Dickinson, Geary	31 min
Mar 13, 7:31 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TOP	Wabaunsee	29 min
Mar 13, 7:42 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	TOP	Geary, Morris, Wabaunsee	33 min
Mar 13, 7:47 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Leavenworth	29 min
Mar 13, 7:48 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	TOP	Geary, Pottawatomie, Riley, Wabaunsee	42 min
Mar 13, 7:52 PM CDT	Tornado Warning Tornado observed	TOP	Geary, Wabaunsee	23 min
Mar 13, 7:57 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	EAX	Johnson, Wyandotte	37 min
Mar 13, 7:58 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TOP	Dickinson, Geary, Riley	47 min
Mar 13, 8:02 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	TOP	Jackson, Pottawatomie, Shawnee, Wabaunsee	43 min
Mar 13, 8:04 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	TOP	Riley, Wabaunsee	26 min
Mar 13, 8:10 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TOP	Marshall, Nemaha, Pottawatomie, Riley	35 min
Mar 13, 8:15 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Doniphan	45 min
Mar 13, 8:19 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	TOP	Jackson, Pottawatomie, Shawnee, Wabaunsee	26 min
Mar 13, 8:24 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Destructive damage threat	EAX	Wyandotte	36 min
Mar 13, 8:27 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	TOP	Wabaunsee	33 min
Mar 13, 8:40 PM CDT	Tornado Warning Tornado observed	TOP	Jackson, Shawnee	35 min
Mar 13, 8:42 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	TOP	Geary, Pottawatomie, Riley, Wabaunsee	33 min
Mar 13, 8:45 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Destructive damage threat	TOP	Jackson, Pottawatomie, Shawnee, Wabaunsee	45 min
Mar 13, 8:46 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	EAX	Clay, Clinton, Jackson, Ray	44 min
Mar 13, 8:53 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	EAX	Doniphan	37 min
Mar 13, 9:05 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	TOP	Jackson	25 min
Mar 13, 9:12 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Destructive damage threat	TOP	Pottawatomie, Riley, Wabaunsee	33 min
Mar 13, 9:24 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	TOP	Jackson, Jefferson, Shawnee	36 min
Mar 13, 9:27 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	EAX	Caldwell, Carroll, Ray	48 min
Mar 13, 9:33 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Doniphan	27 min
Mar 13, 9:43 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	TOP	Jackson, Jefferson	47 min
Mar 13, 9:43 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	TOP	Jackson, Pottawatomie, Shawnee, Wabaunsee	47 min
Mar 13, 9:44 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Atchison	46 min
Mar 13, 9:48 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Carroll, Lafayette, Ray	27 min
Mar 13, 9:50 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	TOP	Jefferson	25 min
Mar 13, 9:59 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	EAX	Atchison	16 min
Mar 13, 9:59 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Holt, Nodaway	31 min
Mar 13, 10:05 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	EAX	Carroll, Chariton, Lafayette, Linn, Livingston, Saline	40 min
Mar 13, 10:21 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Atchison, Leavenworth	39 min
Mar 13, 10:41 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	EAX	Carroll, Chariton, Linn, Livingston, Saline	49 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, 10.7 hours before the alert went out and 38 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.

Skew-T log-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.

Mixed-layer CAPE: 0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL: 1449 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 37 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -27 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 8 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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SPC that day

Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Mar 13, 3:54 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Anderson, Atchison, Brown, Chase, Clay, Cloud and 28 more	2 hr
Mar 13, 5:29 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	Brown, Clay, Cloud, Ellis, Ellsworth, Gove and 18 more	8 hr
Mar 13, 6:29 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Douglas, Jackson, Jefferson, Johnson, Leavenworth, Osage and 4 more	2 hr
Mar 13, 6:31 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Chautauqua, Elk, Labette, Montgomery, Neosho, Wilson	89 min
Mar 12, 10:34 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Cedar, Dade, Johnson, Lafayette, Lawrence, Pettis and 2 more	86 min
Mar 13, 2:56 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Audrain, Boone, Callaway, Cole, Crawford, Franklin and 15 more	3 hr
Mar 13, 3:50 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	Audrain, Boone, Callaway, Cole, Crawford, Franklin and 20 more	7 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.