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Tornado Watch 16
The Storm Prediction Center issued this tornado watch at Mar 6, 2026, 3:16 PM CST for 4 states. It was in force for 9 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Mar 6, 2026, 3:16 PM CST (21:16 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 7, 2026, 12:00 AM CST
- In force
- 9 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
- Largest hail expected
- 2 in
- Strongest gust expected
- 60 kt
All 81 counties
Adair County, IA, Adams County, IA, Audubon County, IA, Boone County, IA, Calhoun County, IA, Carroll County, IA, Cass County, IA, Clarke County, IA, Dallas County, IA, Decatur County, IA, Fremont County, IA, Greene County, IA, Guthrie County, IA, Hamilton County, IA, Madison County, IA, Mills County, IA, Montgomery County, IA, Page County, IA, Polk County, IA, Pottawattamie County, IA, Ringgold County, IA, Shelby County, IA, Story County, IA, Taylor County, IA, Union County, IA, Warren County, IA, Webster County, IA, Anderson County, KS, Atchison County, KS, Barton County, KS, Brown County, KS, Chase County, KS, Clay County, KS, Cloud County, KS, Coffey County, KS, Dickinson County, KS, Doniphan County, KS, Douglas County, KS, Ellsworth County, KS, Franklin County, KS, Geary County, KS, Jackson County, KS, Jefferson County, KS, Lincoln County, KS, Lyon County, KS, Marion County, KS, Marshall County, KS, McPherson County, KS, Mitchell County, KS, Morris County, KS, Nemaha County, KS, Osage County, KS, Ottawa County, KS, Pawnee County, KS, Pottawatomie County, KS, Republic County, KS, Rice County, KS, Riley County, KS, Rush County, KS, Russell County, KS, Saline County, KS, Shawnee County, KS, Stafford County, KS, Wabaunsee County, KS, Washington County, KS, Andrew County, MO, Atchison County, MO, Gentry County, MO, Harrison County, MO, Holt County, MO, Nodaway County, MO, Worth County, MO, Cass County, NE, Gage County, NE, Jefferson County, NE, Johnson County, NE, Lancaster County, NE, Nemaha County, NE, Otoe County, NE, Pawnee County, NE, Richardson County, NE
The radar
The Topeka radar (KTWX), 126 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:19 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
- 50%
- One or more EF2 to EF5 tornadoes
- 30%
- Ten or more severe wind reports
- 40%
- One or more gusts of 65 knots or more
- 10%
- Ten or more severe hail reports
- 60%
- One or more hailstones of 2 inches or more
- 50%
- Six or more combined severe hail and wind reports
- 90%
Warnings issued inside it
14 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 6, 5:12 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OAX | Jefferson, Lancaster, Saline, Seward | 16 min |
| Mar 6, 5:42 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OAX | Fremont, Mills, Montgomery, Pottawattamie | 37 min |
| Mar 6, 6:10 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DMX | Cass | 34 min |
| Mar 6, 6:21 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OAX | Montgomery | 24 min |
| Mar 6, 6:22 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OAX | Jefferson, Saline, Seward | 23 min |
| Mar 6, 6:40 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OAX | Butler, Lancaster, Saline, Seward | 50 min |
| Mar 6, 6:47 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OAX | Gage, Jefferson, Saline | 28 min |
| Mar 6, 7:12 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OAX | Gage, Jefferson, Johnson, Lancaster, Otoe, Saline | 33 min |
| Mar 6, 7:19 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OAX | Butler, Lancaster, Saunders, Seward | 26 min |
| Mar 6, 7:23 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DMX | Boone, Dallas, Polk | 29 min |
| Mar 6, 7:27 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OAX | Butler, Lancaster, Saunders, Seward | 11 min |
| Mar 6, 7:50 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OAX | Cass, Douglas, Lancaster, Sarpy, Saunders | 14 min |
| Mar 6, 9:35 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OAX | Pottawattamie | 25 min |
| Mar 6, 10:37 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Douglas, Jefferson, Shawnee | 38 min |
Discussions around it
SPC mesoscale discussions over the same counties from four hours before the watch to its end.
SPC that day
Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 6, 1:50 PM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Adair, Adams, Cass, Fremont, Mills, Montgomery and 5 more | 2 hr |
| Mar 6, 5:23 PM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Adair, Adams, Audubon, Boone, Cass, Clarke and 15 more | 2 hr |
| Mar 5, 7:35 PM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Barber, Butler, Chase, Cowley, Dickinson, Geary and 17 more | 85 min |
| Mar 5, 8:32 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Butler, Cowley, Harper, Harvey, Kingman, Reno and 2 more | 7 hr |
| Mar 5, 10:55 PM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Butler, Cowley, Greenwood, Harper, Sedgwick, Sumner | 95 min |
| Mar 6, 1:31 AM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Butler, Chase, Chautauqua, Cowley, Elk, Greenwood and 2 more | 119 min |
| Mar 6, 3:47 PM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Allen, Anderson, Bourbon, Cherokee, Crawford, Franklin and 8 more | 2 hr |
| Mar 6, 5:45 PM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Allen, Bourbon, Chautauqua, Cherokee, Crawford, Elk and 6 more | 9 hr |
| Mar 6, 4:36 PM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Arthur, Cheyenne, Deuel, Garden, Grant, Hooker and 4 more | 4 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.