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Tornado Watch 18

March 6, 202612 counties in Kansas; 38 counties in Missouri

The Storm Prediction Center issued this tornado watch at Mar 6, 2026, 5:45 PM CST for 12 counties in Kansas; 38 counties in Missouri. It was in force for 9 hr.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued: Mar 6, 2026, 5:45 PM CST (23:45 UTC)
Expired: Mar 7, 2026, 3:00 AM CST
In force: 9 hr
Issued by: the Storm Prediction Center
Largest hail expected: 2 in
Strongest gust expected: 60 kt

All 50 counties

Allen County, KS, Bourbon County, KS, Chautauqua County, KS, Cherokee County, KS, Crawford County, KS, Elk County, KS, Labette County, KS, Linn County, KS, Montgomery County, KS, Neosho County, KS, Wilson County, KS, Woodson County, KS, Barry County, MO, Barton County, MO, Bates County, MO, Benton County, MO, Camden County, MO, Cass County, MO, Cedar County, MO, Christian County, MO, Cooper County, MO, Dade County, MO, Dallas County, MO, Dent County, MO, Douglas County, MO, Greene County, MO, Henry County, MO, Hickory County, MO, Jasper County, MO, Johnson County, MO, Laclede County, MO, Lafayette County, MO, Lawrence County, MO, Maries County, MO, McDonald County, MO, Miller County, MO, Morgan County, MO, Newton County, MO, Pettis County, MO, Phelps County, MO, Polk County, MO, Pulaski County, MO, Saline County, MO, St. Clair County, MO, Stone County, MO, Taney County, MO, Texas County, MO, Vernon County, MO, Webster County, MO, Wright County, MO

The radar

The Springfield radar (KSGF), 124 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:47 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: 40%
Ten or more severe wind reports: 60%
One or more gusts of 65 knots or more: 20%
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

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Mar 6, 5:54 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Newton	51 min
Mar 6, 5:55 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Montgomery	17 min
Mar 6, 6:26 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Jasper, Lawrence, Newton	49 min
Mar 6, 7:06 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Barton, Dade, Jasper	39 min
Mar 6, 7:09 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Linn	36 min
Mar 6, 7:10 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Bourbon	20 min
Mar 6, 7:40 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Bates, Cass, Henry	35 min
Mar 6, 8:03 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Cherokee, Crawford	42 min
Mar 6, 8:31 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	SGF	Cedar, Dade, Polk, St. Clair, Vernon	44 min
Mar 6, 8:41 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Dade, Lawrence, Polk	34 min
Mar 6, 9:01 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Cooper, Howard, Pettis, Saline	29 min
Mar 6, 9:09 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Benton, Cedar, Dade, Dallas, Greene, Hickory and 2 more	51 min
Mar 6, 9:36 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Barton, Dade, Jasper	39 min
Mar 6, 9:42 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Camden, Dallas, Hickory, Laclede, Maries, Miller and 1 more	48 min
Mar 6, 9:50 PM CST	Flash Flood Warning	SGF	Cherokee	6 hr
Mar 6, 9:57 PM CST	Tornado Warning	SGF	McDonald	33 min
Mar 6, 10:14 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Cedar, Dade, Greene, Lawrence, Polk	46 min
Mar 6, 10:20 PM CST	Tornado Warning	SGF	McDonald, Newton	40 min
Mar 6, 10:41 PM CST	Flash Flood Warning	SGF	Barton, Dade	6 hr
Mar 6, 10:44 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Cedar, Dade, Greene, Lawrence, Polk	46 min
Mar 6, 10:49 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Barry, Christian, Greene, Lawrence, McDonald, Newton and 1 more	41 min
Mar 6, 11:24 PM CST	Tornado Warning	SGF	Greene, Lawrence	8 min
Mar 6, 11:25 PM CST	Flash Flood Warning	SGF	McDonald, Newton	6 hr
Mar 6, 11:25 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	SGF	Barry, Christian, Dade, Dallas, Douglas, Greene and 6 more	65 min
Mar 6, 11:36 PM CST	Tornado Warning	SGF	Christian, Greene, Stone	24 min
Mar 6, 11:50 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Clay, Jackson, Lafayette, Platte, Ray	40 min
Mar 6, 11:55 PM CST	Flash Flood Warning	SGF	Camden, Cedar, Dade, Dallas, Greene, Jasper and 3 more	6 hr
Mar 7, 12:29 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Barry, Stone	34 min
Mar 7, 12:38 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Barry, McDonald	21 min
Mar 7, 1:00 AM CST	Flash Flood Warning	SGF	Barry, Christian, Lawrence, McDonald, Newton, Stone	6 hr

Discussions around it

SPC mesoscale discussions over the same counties from four hours before the watch to its end.

The nearest sounding before it

Norman, OK (KOUN), launched 12:00Z, 11.8 hours before the alert went out and 330 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: 269 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -242 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 681 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 37 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 371 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 378 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 5.9

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

SPC that day

Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
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, 1:50 PM CST	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Atchison, Barton, Brown, Chase, Clay, Cloud and 30 more	2 hr
Mar 6, 3:16 PM CST	Tornado Watch	SPC	Anderson, Atchison, Barton, Brown, Chase, Clay and 32 more	9 hr
Mar 6, 3:47 PM CST	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Allen, Anderson, Bourbon, Cherokee, Crawford, Franklin and 8 more	2 hr
Mar 6, 5:23 PM CST	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Atchison, Brown, Clay, Dickinson, Doniphan, Geary and 8 more	2 hr
Mar 5, 6:45 PM CST	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Beckham, Custer, Greer, Harmon, Jackson, Kiowa and 2 more	2 hr
Mar 5, 9:34 PM CST	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Alfalfa, Beckham, Blaine, Custer, Dewey, Grant and 6 more	86 min
Mar 5, 11:42 PM CST	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Alfalfa, Custer, Dewey, Major, Roger Mills	93 min
Mar 6, 1:57 PM CST	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Atoka, Bryan, Carter, Cleveland, Coal, Creek and 27 more	3 hr
Mar 6, 2:44 PM CST	Tornado Watch	SPC	Adair, Atoka, Bryan, Canadian, Carter, Cherokee and 46 more	7 hr
Mar 6, 5:41 PM CST	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Cherokee, Creek, Delaware, Hughes, McIntosh, Mayes and 9 more	94 min

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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.