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Tornado Watch 327

June 13, 202637 counties in Kansas; 11 counties in Missouri

The Storm Prediction Center issued this tornado watch at Jun 13, 2026, 2:30 PM CDT for 37 counties in Kansas; 11 counties in Missouri. It was in force for 9 hr.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued: Jun 13, 2026, 2:30 PM CDT (19:30 UTC)
Expired: Jun 13, 2026, 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 48 counties

Anderson County, KS, Atchison 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, Johnson County, KS, Leavenworth County, KS, Lincoln County, KS, Linn County, KS, Lyon County, KS, Marion County, KS, Marshall County, KS, McPherson County, KS, Miami County, KS, Morris County, KS, Nemaha County, KS, Osage County, KS, Ottawa County, KS, Pottawatomie County, KS, Republic County, KS, Rice County, KS, Riley County, KS, Saline County, KS, Shawnee County, KS, Wabaunsee County, KS, Washington County, KS, Wyandotte County, KS, Bates County, MO, Buchanan County, MO, Cass County, MO, Clay County, MO, Clinton County, MO, Henry County, MO, Jackson County, MO, Johnson County, MO, Lafayette County, MO, Platte County, MO, Ray County, MO

The radar

The Topeka radar (KTWX), 26 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:30 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: 70%
One or more gusts of 65 knots or more: 50%
Ten or more severe hail reports: 60%
One or more hailstones of 2 inches or more: 40%
Six or more combined severe hail and wind reports: 95%

Warnings issued inside it

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 13, 3:51 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TOP	Republic	39 min
Jun 13, 4:10 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TOP	Washington	35 min
Jun 13, 4:13 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	TOP	Republic	47 min
Jun 13, 4:29 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	TOP	Republic	46 min
Jun 13, 4:34 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	TOP	Republic	4 hr
Jun 13, 4:40 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	TOP	Washington	35 min
Jun 13, 4:55 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	TOP	Cloud, Republic, Washington	50 min
Jun 13, 5:01 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TOP	Marshall, Washington	44 min
Jun 13, 5:07 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TOP	Marshall, Washington	23 min
Jun 13, 5:20 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	TOP	Marshall, Washington	25 min
Jun 13, 5:21 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TOP	Clay, Cloud, Republic, Washington	39 min
Jun 13, 5:27 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	TOP	Marshall, Republic, Washington	33 min
Jun 13, 5:29 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Doniphan	30 min
Jun 13, 5:34 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	TOP	Marshall, Nemaha	41 min
Jun 13, 5:39 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TOP	Brown, Nemaha	36 min
Jun 13, 5:40 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	TOP	Clay, Washington	50 min
Jun 13, 5:43 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Ellsworth	62 min
Jun 13, 5:43 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	TOP	Marshall, Washington	4 hr
Jun 13, 5:51 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	TOP	Clay, Marshall, Pottawatomie, Riley, Washington	24 min
Jun 13, 6:07 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TOP	Brown, Nemaha	23 min
Jun 13, 6:09 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	TOP	Clay, Geary, Marshall, Pottawatomie, Riley, Washington	51 min
Jun 13, 6:11 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	TOP	Jackson, Marshall, Nemaha, Pottawatomie	49 min
Jun 13, 6:25 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	TOP	Pottawatomie, Riley	20 min
Jun 13, 6:28 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Barton, Ellsworth, McPherson, Rice	62 min
Jun 13, 6:28 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	TOP	Pottawatomie, Riley	12 min
Jun 13, 6:36 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TOP	Brown, Jackson, Nemaha, Pottawatomie	39 min
Jun 13, 6:45 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Ellsworth, Saline	60 min
Jun 13, 6:46 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	TOP	Geary, Jackson, Pottawatomie, Riley, Shawnee, Wabaunsee	44 min
Jun 13, 6:50 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Atchison, Doniphan	40 min
Jun 13, 7:03 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TOP	Dickinson, Ottawa	42 min
Jun 13, 7:08 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	TOP	Brown, Jackson, Jefferson	37 min
Jun 13, 7:17 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	TOP	Douglas, Jackson, Jefferson, Osage, Pottawatomie, Shawnee and 1 more	43 min
Jun 13, 7:19 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	TOP	Geary, Lyon, Morris, Riley, Wabaunsee	56 min
Jun 13, 7:30 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	ICT	Barton, McPherson, Rice	38 min
Jun 13, 7:31 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	EAX	Atchison, Doniphan, Leavenworth, Wyandotte	59 min
Jun 13, 7:35 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	TOP	Douglas, Franklin, Jefferson, Osage, Shawnee, Wabaunsee	55 min
Jun 13, 7:44 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	TOP	Jefferson	31 min
Jun 13, 7:58 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	EAX	Johnson, Leavenworth, Miami, Wyandotte	62 min
Jun 13, 8:03 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	TOP	Lyon, Morris, Osage, Wabaunsee	42 min
Jun 13, 8:08 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Destructive damage threat	EAX	Johnson, Leavenworth, Miami, Wyandotte	52 min
Jun 13, 8:24 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	EAX	Clay, Clinton, Platte	66 min
Jun 13, 8:25 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Chase, Marion	65 min
Jun 13, 8:26 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TOP	Coffey, Lyon, Osage	49 min
Jun 13, 8:34 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	EAX	Wyandotte	26 min
Jun 13, 8:46 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	EAX	Jackson	29 min
Jun 13, 8:50 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	EAX	Johnson, Miami	55 min
Jun 13, 8:50 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	TOP	Anderson, Coffey, Franklin, Lyon, Osage	55 min
Jun 13, 8:57 PM CDT	Tornado Warning Tornado observed	EAX	Clay, Jackson, Ray	33 min
Jun 13, 9:01 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	EAX	Carroll, Ray	59 min
Jun 13, 9:12 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	EAX	Jackson, Lafayette	33 min
Jun 13, 9:14 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Allen, Chase, Greenwood, Woodson	61 min
Jun 13, 9:16 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TOP	Anderson, Franklin	29 min
Jun 13, 9:23 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Linn, Miami	52 min
Jun 13, 9:33 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	EAX	Johnson, Lafayette	27 min
Jun 13, 9:34 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	EAX	Johnson, Lafayette	56 min
Jun 13, 9:42 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TOP	Anderson, Franklin	33 min
Jun 13, 9:55 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Carroll, Chariton, Lafayette, Pettis, Saline	65 min
Jun 13, 10:03 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Bates, Cass, Henry	59 min
Jun 13, 10:10 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	EAX	Linn, Miami	3 hr
Jun 13, 10:10 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Linn	35 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
Jun 12, 8:55 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Meade, Morton, Seward, Stevens	95 min
Jun 12, 10:52 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Clark, Comanche, Meade, Seward	113 min
Jun 12, 11:12 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Decatur, Gove, Graham, Greeley, Lane, Logan and 7 more	2 hr
Jun 12, 11:42 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Allen, Anderson, Bourbon, Butler, Chase, Chautauqua and 17 more	2 hr
Jun 13, 1:06 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	Butler, Cowley, Harper, Kingman, Sedgwick, Sumner	4 hr
Jun 13, 8:03 AM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Brown, Doniphan	117 min
Jun 13, 1:49 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Anderson, Atchison, Brown, Clay, Cloud, Coffey and 23 more	116 min
Jun 13, 3:17 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Jewell, Smith	118 min
Jun 13, 3:41 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Barton, Clark, Comanche, Edwards, Ford, Gray and 10 more	2 hr
Jun 13, 3:42 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	Jewell, Mitchell, Osborne, Rooks, Smith	5 hr
Jun 13, 5:22 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	Allen, Barber, Barton, Butler, Chautauqua, Clark and 30 more	8 hr
Jun 13, 5:29 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Labette	2 hr
Jun 13, 5:58 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Atchison, Brown, Chase, Clay, Cloud, Coffey and 28 more	92 min
Jun 13, 6:53 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Barber, Barton, Clark, Comanche, Edwards, Ellsworth and 15 more	2 hr
Jun 13, 9:07 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	Adair, Daviess, Gentry, Grundy, Harrison, Linn and 8 more	5 hr
Jun 13, 11:51 AM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Adair, Chariton, Daviess, Grundy, Harrison, Knox and 7 more	84 min
Jun 13, 12:40 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Bollinger, Butler, Cape Girardeau, Carter, Dunklin, Howell and 11 more	95 min
Jun 13, 1:50 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Taney	85 min
Jun 13, 3:55 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Dunklin, Pemiscot	95 min
Jun 13, 6:07 PM CDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	Barry, McDonald, Newton, Stone	4 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.