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Tornado Watch 36

March 10, 2026Davis County, Iowa; 20 counties in Kansas; 32 counties in Missouri

The Storm Prediction Center issued this tornado watch at Mar 10, 2026, 5:57 PM CDT for Davis County, Iowa; 20 counties in Kansas; 32 counties in Missouri. It was in force for 6 hr.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued
Mar 10, 2026, 5:57 PM CDT (22:57 UTC)
Expired
Mar 11, 2026, 12:00 AM CDT
In force
6 hr
Issued by
the Storm Prediction Center
Largest hail expected
3 in
Strongest gust expected
60 kt
All 53 counties

Davis County, IA, Allen County, KS, Anderson County, KS, Chautauqua County, KS, Coffey County, KS, Douglas County, KS, Elk County, KS, Franklin County, KS, Greenwood County, KS, Johnson County, KS, Labette County, KS, Leavenworth County, KS, Linn County, KS, Lyon County, KS, Miami County, KS, Montgomery County, KS, Neosho County, KS, Osage County, KS, Wilson County, KS, Woodson County, KS, Wyandotte County, KS, Adair County, MO, Bates County, MO, Caldwell County, MO, Carroll County, MO, Cass County, MO, Chariton County, MO, Clay County, MO, Clinton County, MO, Cooper County, MO, Daviess County, MO, Grundy County, MO, Henry County, MO, Howard County, MO, Jackson County, MO, Johnson County, MO, Knox County, MO, Lafayette County, MO, Lewis County, MO, Linn County, MO, Livingston County, MO, Macon County, MO, Marion County, MO, Monroe County, MO, Pettis County, MO, Platte County, MO, Putnam County, MO, Randolph County, MO, Ray County, MO, Saline County, MO, Schuyler County, MO, Shelby County, MO, Sullivan County, MO

The radar

The Pleasant Hill radar (KEAX), 32 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:00 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
70%
One or more gusts of 65 knots or more
20%
Ten or more severe hail reports
70%
One or more hailstones of 2 inches or more
60%
Six or more combined severe hail and wind reports
95%

Warnings issued inside it

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Mar 10, 6:06 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDMXDavis, Wapello39 min
Mar 10, 6:10 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threatEAXJohnson, Leavenworth, Wyandotte35 min
Mar 10, 6:10 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTOPDouglas20 min
Mar 10, 6:14 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threatEAXJohnson, Leavenworth, Wyandotte31 min
Mar 10, 6:36 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm Warning Destructive damage threatEAXJohnson, Leavenworth, Wyandotte39 min
Mar 10, 6:45 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threatEAXCaldwell, Clinton, Ray45 min
Mar 10, 6:49 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threatEAXCaldwell, Clay, Clinton, Ray41 min
Mar 10, 7:10 PM CDTTornado WarningEAXCaldwell, Ray9 min
Mar 10, 7:15 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEAXCaldwell, Carroll, Clay, Clinton, Daviess, Jackson and 3 more45 min
Mar 10, 7:16 PM CDTTornado WarningEAXClay, Jackson, Ray15 min
Mar 10, 7:22 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDMXDavis38 min
Mar 10, 7:33 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEAXSchuyler21 min
Mar 10, 7:42 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threatEAXCaldwell, Carroll, Clay, Ray48 min
Mar 10, 7:49 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEAXAdair, Grundy, Linn, Livingston, Macon, Sullivan41 min
Mar 10, 7:55 PM CDTTornado WarningEAXCarroll, Ray35 min
Mar 10, 8:11 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEAXAdair, Linn, Macon, Putnam, Schuyler, Sullivan48 min
Mar 10, 8:24 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEAXCarroll, Chariton, Ray51 min
Mar 10, 8:32 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEAXAdair, Linn, Macon43 min
Mar 10, 8:51 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEAXCarroll, Chariton, Macon, Randolph39 min
Mar 10, 8:53 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTOPCoffey, Franklin, Osage24 min
Mar 10, 9:01 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEAXJohnson, Miami44 min
Mar 10, 9:09 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEAXRay36 min
Mar 10, 9:12 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLSXKnox, Lewis, Shelby27 min
Mar 10, 9:29 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEAXClay, Jackson31 min
Mar 10, 9:44 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEAXCarroll, Chariton, Lafayette, Linn, Macon, Randolph and 2 more46 min
Mar 10, 9:44 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLSXLewis31 min
Mar 10, 9:45 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEAXJohnson, Miami30 min
Mar 10, 9:47 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLSXKnox, Lewis, Shelby38 min
Mar 10, 9:58 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningEAXJohnson, Miami4 hr
Mar 10, 10:07 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEAXJackson27 min
Mar 10, 10:08 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEAXJohnson, Miami26 min
Mar 10, 10:14 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningICTButler, Elk, Greenwood46 min
Mar 10, 10:14 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLSXLewis, Marion34 min
Mar 10, 10:33 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEAXJohnson, Miami27 min
Mar 10, 10:35 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEAXChariton, Linn, Macon, Randolph11 min
Mar 10, 10:47 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningICTAllen, Neosho, Wilson, Woodson26 min
Mar 10, 10:48 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEAXLinn, Miami28 min
Mar 10, 11:02 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningTOPDouglas, Franklin, Osage4 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

Topeka, KS (KTOP), launched 12:00Z, 11.0 hours before the alert went out and 106 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Topeka, KS at 12:00Z on 2026-03-10Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 88 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Topeka, KS at 12:00Z on 2026-03-10The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 434 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
88 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-512 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1185 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
49 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
434 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
474 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

SPC that day

Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Mar 10, 1:53 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCDes Moines, Henry, Jefferson, Lee, Louisa, Muscatine and 2 more3 hr
Mar 10, 3:57 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCDes Moines, Henry, Jefferson, Lee, Louisa, Van Buren10 hr
Mar 10, 4:53 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCCedar, Clinton, Jackson, Johnson, Jones, Muscatine and 1 more97 min
Mar 10, 5:40 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPCCedar, Clinton, Dubuque, Jackson, Johnson, Jones and 3 more7 hr
Mar 10, 5:41 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCAppanoose, Lee2 hr
Mar 10, 3:34 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCBarber, Harper, Kingman, Sedgwick, Sumner116 min
Mar 10, 4:51 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCAllen, Anderson, Barber, Bourbon, Butler, Chase and 25 more2 hr
Mar 10, 5:21 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPCBarber, Butler, Chase, Comanche, Cowley, Harper and 7 more6 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.