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Tornado Watch 694
The Storm Prediction Center issued this tornado watch at Oct 30, 2024, 2:07 PM CDT for 13 counties in Kansas; 21 counties in Oklahoma. It was in force for 9 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Oct 30, 2024, 2:07 PM CDT (19:07 UTC)
- Expired
- Oct 30, 2024, 11:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 9 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
- Largest hail expected
- 2.5 in
- Strongest gust expected
- 65 kt
All 34 counties
Barber County, KS, Butler County, KS, Chase County, KS, Comanche County, KS, Cowley County, KS, Harper County, KS, Harvey County, KS, Kingman County, KS, Marion County, KS, Pratt County, KS, Reno County, KS, Sedgwick County, KS, Sumner County, KS, Alfalfa County, OK, Blaine County, OK, Caddo County, OK, Canadian County, OK, Cleveland County, OK, Custer County, OK, Dewey County, OK, Garfield County, OK, Grady County, OK, Grant County, OK, Kay County, OK, Kingfisher County, OK, Logan County, OK, Major County, OK, McClain County, OK, Noble County, OK, Oklahoma County, OK, Payne County, OK, Washita County, OK, Woods County, OK, Woodward County, OK
The radar
The Wichita radar (KICT), 57 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:10 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
- 60%
- One or more EF2 to EF5 tornadoes
- 40%
- Ten or more severe wind reports
- 60%
- One or more gusts of 65 knots or more
- 30%
- Ten or more severe hail reports
- 50%
- One or more hailstones of 2 inches or more
- 40%
- Six or more combined severe hail and wind reports
- 90%
Warnings issued inside it
33 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 30, 2:20 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Pratt | 25 min |
| Oct 30, 2:22 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Kingman, Reno | 53 min |
| Oct 30, 2:26 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Beckham, Custer, Dewey, Roger Mills | 49 min |
| Oct 30, 2:55 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Major, Woods, Woodward | 50 min |
| Oct 30, 3:02 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Harvey, McPherson, Marion, Reno, Sedgwick | 58 min |
| Oct 30, 3:09 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Blaine, Custer, Dewey, Major | 51 min |
| Oct 30, 3:22 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Barber | 23 min |
| Oct 30, 3:35 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Harper, Kingman | 34 min |
| Oct 30, 3:38 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Alfalfa, Garfield, Grant, Major, Woods | 52 min |
| Oct 30, 3:47 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Beckham, Greer, Harmon, Kiowa, Washita | 43 min |
| Oct 30, 3:53 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Blaine, Custer, Dewey | 52 min |
| Oct 30, 4:08 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Alfalfa, Garfield, Grant, Kay | 52 min |
| Oct 30, 4:26 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Alfalfa, Garfield, Grant, Major | 49 min |
| Oct 30, 4:41 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Blaine, Garfield, Kingfisher, Major | 49 min |
| Oct 30, 4:42 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Blaine, Custer | 48 min |
| Oct 30, 5:21 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Garfield, Grant, Kay, Noble | 39 min |
| Oct 30, 5:24 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Blaine, Caddo, Canadian, Kingfisher | 51 min |
| Oct 30, 5:34 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Cowley, Sumner | 56 min |
| Oct 30, 5:56 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Caddo, Kiowa, Washita | 38 min |
| Oct 30, 6:10 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Chautauqua, Cowley, Elk | 65 min |
| Oct 30, 6:10 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Blaine, Canadian, Kingfisher | 50 min |
| Oct 30, 6:26 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Kay, Noble | 49 min |
| Oct 30, 6:33 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Garfield, Kingfisher, Logan, Noble | 42 min |
| Oct 30, 6:59 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Kingfisher, Logan, Noble, Payne | 46 min |
| Oct 30, 7:01 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Chautauqua, Cowley, Elk | 27 min |
| Oct 30, 7:23 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Garfield, Logan, Noble, Payne | 67 min |
| Oct 30, 7:35 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Blaine, Canadian, Kingfisher | 40 min |
| Oct 30, 8:33 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Caddo | 42 min |
| Oct 30, 8:35 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Canadian | 25 min |
| Oct 30, 8:40 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Lincoln, Logan, Noble, Payne | 50 min |
| Oct 30, 8:58 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Canadian, Logan, Oklahoma | 32 min |
| Oct 30, 9:08 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Canadian, Grady | 31 min |
| Oct 30, 9:20 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Cleveland, McClain, Oklahoma | 25 min |
Discussions around it
SPC mesoscale discussions over the same counties from four hours before the watch to its end.
- Mesoscale Discussion 2163 Severe potential...tornado watch likely
- Mesoscale Discussion 2164 Severe potential...watch likely
- Mesoscale Discussion 2166 Tornado watch 694
- Mesoscale Discussion 2167 Tornado watch 694...695
- Mesoscale Discussion 2170 Tornado watch 694...696
- Mesoscale Discussion 2174 Tornado watch 694...696
The nearest sounding before it
Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 12:00Z, 7.1 hours before the alert went out and 207 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
- 319 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -155 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 872 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 69 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 228 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 236 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 1.1
SPC that day
Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 30, 9:07 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Barton, Clark, Clay, Cloud, Edwards, Ellsworth and 16 more | 83 min |
| Oct 30, 1:05 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Atchison, Brown, Doniphan, Jackson, Nemaha, Pottawatomie | 115 min |
| Oct 30, 1:15 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Barber, Butler, Comanche, Cowley, Harper, Harvey and 8 more | 90 min |
| Oct 30, 1:30 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Doniphan | 8 hr |
| Oct 30, 3:03 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Atchison, Brown, Chase, Coffey, Dickinson, Doniphan and 20 more | 117 min |
| Oct 30, 3:45 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Barber, Butler, Chase, Cowley, Harper, Harvey and 6 more | 90 min |
| Oct 30, 4:35 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Allen, Anderson, Atchison, Bourbon, Chautauqua, Cherokee and 24 more | 5 hr |
| Oct 30, 5:19 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Allen, Chautauqua, Cherokee, Cowley, Crawford, Elk and 6 more | 86 min |
| Oct 30, 6:18 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Anderson, Atchison, Coffey, Doniphan, Douglas, Franklin and 7 more | 87 min |
| Oct 30, 6:57 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Allen, Bourbon, Cherokee, Crawford, Labette, Montgomery and 2 more | 63 min |
| Oct 30, 5:56 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Adair, Cherokee, Craig, Creek, Delaware, Haskell and 20 more | 9 hr |
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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.