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Tornado Watch 36
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.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 10, 6:06 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DMX | Davis, Wapello | 39 min |
| Mar 10, 6:10 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Johnson, Leavenworth, Wyandotte | 35 min |
| Mar 10, 6:10 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Douglas | 20 min |
| Mar 10, 6:14 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Johnson, Leavenworth, Wyandotte | 31 min |
| Mar 10, 6:36 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Johnson, Leavenworth, Wyandotte | 39 min |
| Mar 10, 6:45 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Caldwell, Clinton, Ray | 45 min |
| Mar 10, 6:49 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Caldwell, Clay, Clinton, Ray | 41 min |
| Mar 10, 7:10 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | EAX | Caldwell, Ray | 9 min |
| Mar 10, 7:15 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Caldwell, Carroll, Clay, Clinton, Daviess, Jackson and 3 more | 45 min |
| Mar 10, 7:16 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | EAX | Clay, Jackson, Ray | 15 min |
| Mar 10, 7:22 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DMX | Davis | 38 min |
| Mar 10, 7:33 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Schuyler | 21 min |
| Mar 10, 7:42 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Caldwell, Carroll, Clay, Ray | 48 min |
| Mar 10, 7:49 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Adair, Grundy, Linn, Livingston, Macon, Sullivan | 41 min |
| Mar 10, 7:55 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | EAX | Carroll, Ray | 35 min |
| Mar 10, 8:11 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Adair, Linn, Macon, Putnam, Schuyler, Sullivan | 48 min |
| Mar 10, 8:24 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Carroll, Chariton, Ray | 51 min |
| Mar 10, 8:32 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Adair, Linn, Macon | 43 min |
| Mar 10, 8:51 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Carroll, Chariton, Macon, Randolph | 39 min |
| Mar 10, 8:53 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Coffey, Franklin, Osage | 24 min |
| Mar 10, 9:01 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Johnson, Miami | 44 min |
| Mar 10, 9:09 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Ray | 36 min |
| Mar 10, 9:12 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | Knox, Lewis, Shelby | 27 min |
| Mar 10, 9:29 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Clay, Jackson | 31 min |
| Mar 10, 9:44 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Carroll, Chariton, Lafayette, Linn, Macon, Randolph and 2 more | 46 min |
| Mar 10, 9:44 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | Lewis | 31 min |
| Mar 10, 9:45 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Johnson, Miami | 30 min |
| Mar 10, 9:47 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | Knox, Lewis, Shelby | 38 min |
| Mar 10, 9:58 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EAX | Johnson, Miami | 4 hr |
| Mar 10, 10:07 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Jackson | 27 min |
| Mar 10, 10:08 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Johnson, Miami | 26 min |
| Mar 10, 10:14 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Butler, Elk, Greenwood | 46 min |
| Mar 10, 10:14 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | Lewis, Marion | 34 min |
| Mar 10, 10:33 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Johnson, Miami | 27 min |
| Mar 10, 10:35 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Chariton, Linn, Macon, Randolph | 11 min |
| Mar 10, 10:47 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Allen, Neosho, Wilson, Woodson | 26 min |
| Mar 10, 10:48 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Linn, Miami | 28 min |
| Mar 10, 11:02 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | TOP | Douglas, Franklin, Osage | 4 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.
- 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
SPC that day
Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 10, 1:53 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Des Moines, Henry, Jefferson, Lee, Louisa, Muscatine and 2 more | 3 hr |
| Mar 10, 3:57 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Des Moines, Henry, Jefferson, Lee, Louisa, Van Buren | 10 hr |
| Mar 10, 4:53 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Cedar, Clinton, Jackson, Johnson, Jones, Muscatine and 1 more | 97 min |
| Mar 10, 5:40 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Cedar, Clinton, Dubuque, Jackson, Johnson, Jones and 3 more | 7 hr |
| Mar 10, 5:41 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Appanoose, Lee | 2 hr |
| Mar 10, 3:34 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Barber, Harper, Kingman, Sedgwick, Sumner | 116 min |
| Mar 10, 4:51 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Allen, Anderson, Barber, Bourbon, Butler, Chase and 25 more | 2 hr |
| Mar 10, 5:21 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Barber, Butler, Chase, Comanche, Cowley, Harper and 7 more | 6 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.