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Tornado Watch 345
The Storm Prediction Center issued this tornado watch at Jun 17, 2026, 5:23 PM CDT for 18 counties in Missouri. It was in force for 5 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 17, 2026, 5:23 PM CDT (22:23 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 17, 2026, 10:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 5 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
- Largest hail expected
- 3 in
- Strongest gust expected
- 65 kt
Counties Bates County, MO, Benton County, MO, Camden County, MO, Cedar County, MO, Cooper County, MO, Dallas County, MO, Henry County, MO, Hickory County, MO, Howard County, MO, Laclede County, MO, Maries County, MO, Miller County, MO, Morgan County, MO, Pettis County, MO, Phelps County, MO, Polk County, MO, Pulaski County, MO, St. Clair County, MO
The radar
The Pleasant Hill radar (KEAX), 88 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:28 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
- 80%
- One or more gusts of 65 knots or more
- 70%
- 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
14 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 17, 5:37 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | EAX | Bates, Henry | 38 min |
| Jun 17, 5:40 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | EAX | Henry | 37 min |
| Jun 17, 5:44 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Cass, Henry, Johnson | 35 min |
| Jun 17, 5:57 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | St. Clair | 31 min |
| Jun 17, 6:03 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | Benton | 24 min |
| Jun 17, 6:09 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Bates | 51 min |
| Jun 17, 6:50 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | Cedar, St. Clair, Vernon | 40 min |
| Jun 17, 6:54 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Bates | 51 min |
| Jun 17, 7:05 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Bates | 40 min |
| Jun 17, 7:48 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | Cedar, Hickory, Polk, St. Clair | 42 min |
| Jun 17, 7:58 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | Cedar, St. Clair, Vernon | 47 min |
| Jun 17, 8:25 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | Hickory, Polk | 35 min |
| Jun 17, 8:42 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | Cedar | 33 min |
| Jun 17, 8:49 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | Dallas | 41 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, 10.4 hours before the alert went out and 172 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
- 22 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -312 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1369 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 36 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 263 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 363 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
SPC that day
Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 17, 7:49 AM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Clark, Scotland | 6 hr |
| Jun 17, 8:16 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Clark | 59 min |
| Jun 17, 1:03 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Adair, Audrain, Bates, Benton, Boone, Caldwell and 44 more | 117 min |
| Jun 17, 2:14 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Audrain, Boone, Callaway, Clark, Cole, Franklin and 18 more | 11 hr |
| Jun 17, 2:36 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Adair, Barton, Bates, Benton, Caldwell, Camden and 35 more | 7 hr |
| Jun 17, 4:00 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Audrain, Lincoln, Marion, Monroe, Montgomery, Pike and 5 more | 60 min |
| Jun 17, 5:43 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Bates, Benton, Cedar, Cooper, Henry, Hickory and 8 more | 62 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.