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Tornado Watch 67

April 1, 202410 counties in Kansas; 52 counties in Missouri

The Storm Prediction Center issued this tornado watch at Apr 1, 2024, 3:29 PM CDT for 10 counties in Kansas; 52 counties in Missouri. It was in force for 8 hr.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued: Apr 1, 2024, 3:29 PM CDT (20:29 UTC)
Expired: Apr 1, 2024, 11:00 PM CDT
In force: 8 hr
Issued by: the Storm Prediction Center
Largest hail expected: 2.5 in
Strongest gust expected: 70 kt

All 62 counties

Atchison County, KS, Bourbon County, KS, Cherokee County, KS, Crawford County, KS, Doniphan County, KS, Johnson County, KS, Leavenworth County, KS, Linn County, KS, Miami County, KS, Wyandotte County, KS, Andrew 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, Chariton 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, Grundy County, MO, Harrison County, MO, Henry County, MO, Hickory County, MO, Holt County, MO, Howard County, MO, Jackson County, MO, Jasper County, MO, Johnson County, MO, Lafayette County, MO, Lawrence County, MO, Linn County, MO, Livingston County, MO, Macon County, MO, McDonald County, MO, Miller County, MO, Morgan County, MO, Newton County, MO, Nodaway County, MO, Pettis County, MO, Platte County, MO, Polk County, MO, Randolph County, MO, Ray County, MO, Saline County, MO, St. Clair County, MO, Stone County, MO, Taney County, MO, Vernon County, MO, Worth County, MO

The radar

The Pleasant Hill radar (KEAX), 62 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:31 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: 60%
One or more EF2 to EF5 tornadoes: 30%
Ten or more severe wind reports: 60%
One or more gusts of 65 knots or more: 30%
Ten or more severe hail reports: 60%
One or more hailstones of 2 inches or more: 60%
Six or more combined severe hail and wind reports: 95%

Warnings issued inside it

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Apr 1, 3:51 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Daviess, DeKalb, Gentry, Harrison, Mercer, Worth	39 min
Apr 1, 5:16 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	SGF	Cherokee, Crawford	59 min
Apr 1, 5:29 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Miller, Morgan	31 min
Apr 1, 6:02 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Barton, Cedar, Dade, Vernon	43 min
Apr 1, 6:38 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Barton, Cedar, Dade, St. Clair, Vernon	41 min
Apr 1, 6:58 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Benton, Hickory, Polk	62 min
Apr 1, 7:24 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	SGF	Camden, Dallas, Laclede, Morgan	66 min
Apr 1, 7:35 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Destructive damage threat	SGF	Dallas, Laclede, Polk	55 min
Apr 1, 7:45 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	SGF	Dallas, Laclede, Polk	30 min
Apr 1, 8:02 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Miller	58 min
Apr 1, 8:42 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Bourbon, Crawford	33 min
Apr 1, 8:50 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Cherokee	40 min
Apr 1, 9:13 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Cherokee, Crawford	32 min
Apr 1, 9:25 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Cherokee	50 min
Apr 1, 9:38 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	SGF	Barton, Dade, Jasper, Lawrence	37 min
Apr 1, 9:53 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Cedar, Dade, Jasper, Lawrence	52 min
Apr 1, 10:06 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	SGF	Dade, Lawrence	24 min
Apr 1, 10:18 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Destructive damage threat	SGF	Dade, Dallas, Greene, Lawrence, Polk	42 min
Apr 1, 10:24 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	SGF	Greene, Lawrence	36 min
Apr 1, 10:41 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	SGF	Dallas, Greene, Laclede, Polk, Webster	49 min
Apr 1, 10:45 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	SGF	Dallas, Greene, Laclede, Polk, Webster	30 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

Springfield, MO (KSGF), launched 12:00Z, 8.5 hours before the alert went out and 183 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: 532 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -325 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 726 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 62 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 408 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 412 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

SPC that day

Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Apr 1, 1:13 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Allen, Anderson, Bourbon, Butler, Chase, Chautauqua and 21 more	2 hr
Apr 1, 1:39 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	Allen, Anderson, Butler, Chase, Chautauqua, Coffey and 17 more	7 hr
Apr 1, 3:01 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Bourbon, Cherokee, Crawford, Johnson, Leavenworth, Linn and 2 more	89 min
Apr 1, 5:28 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Allen, Anderson, Bourbon, Chautauqua, Cherokee, Coffey and 14 more	92 min
Apr 1, 12:35 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Adair, Audrain, Boone, Callaway, Carroll, Chariton and 34 more	115 min
Apr 1, 3:50 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Audrain, Boone, Callaway, Cole, Cooper, Franklin and 15 more	115 min
Apr 1, 4:49 PM CDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	Audrain, Boone, Callaway, Cole, Crawford, Franklin and 20 more	7 hr
Apr 1, 6:45 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Franklin, Gasconade, Lincoln, Osage, Saint Charles, Saint Louis and 2 more	90 min
Apr 1, 1:55 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Blaine, Caddo, Canadian, Carter, Cleveland, Comanche and 27 more	2 hr
Apr 1, 2:13 PM CDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	Atoka, Blaine, Bryan, Caddo, Canadian, Carter and 47 more	10 hr
Apr 1, 5:53 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Atoka, Bryan, Caddo, Canadian, Carter, Cleveland and 39 more	97 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.