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Tornado Watch 536
The Storm Prediction Center issued this tornado watch at Jul 31, 2026, 3:26 PM CDT for 37 counties in Missouri. It was in force for 8 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 31, 2026, 3:26 PM CDT (20:26 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 31, 2026, 11:27 PM CDT
- In force
- 8 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
- Largest hail expected
- 1 in
- Strongest gust expected
- 60 kt
All 37 counties
Audrain County, MO, Boone County, MO, Callaway County, MO, Camden County, MO, Cole County, MO, Cooper County, MO, Crawford County, MO, Dent County, MO, Douglas County, MO, Franklin County, MO, Gasconade County, MO, Howard County, MO, Howell County, MO, Iron County, MO, Laclede County, MO, Lincoln County, MO, Maries County, MO, Miller County, MO, Moniteau County, MO, Monroe County, MO, Montgomery County, MO, Morgan County, MO, Oregon County, MO, Osage County, MO, Ozark County, MO, Phelps County, MO, Pike County, MO, Pulaski County, MO, Ralls County, MO, Randolph County, MO, Reynolds County, MO, Shannon County, MO, Texas County, MO, Warren County, MO, Washington County, MO, Webster County, MO, Wright County, MO
The radar
The St Louis radar (KLSX), 107 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:27 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
- 20%
- Ten or more severe hail reports
- 40%
- One or more hailstones of 2 inches or more
- 20%
- Six or more combined severe hail and wind reports
- 90%
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 31, 5:26 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | Callaway, Osage | 49 min |
| Jul 31, 5:45 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LSX | Callaway, Gasconade, Osage | 28 min |
| Jul 31, 6:13 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | Dent, Phelps, Texas | 47 min |
| Jul 31, 6:20 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | Gasconade, Osage | 40 min |
| Jul 31, 6:33 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LSX | Franklin, Gasconade | 32 min |
| Jul 31, 6:44 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | Dent | 46 min |
| Jul 31, 7:23 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | Dent, Texas | 52 min |
| Jul 31, 7:29 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | SGF | Dent, Shannon, Texas | 46 min |
| Jul 31, 7:50 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | Shannon | 40 min |
| Jul 31, 8:12 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | Shannon | 35 min |
| Jul 31, 8:50 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | LSX | Crawford, Washington | 3 hr |
| Jul 31, 9:15 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LSX | Saint Francois, Washington | 45 min |
| Jul 31, 9:34 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | Dent, Shannon, Texas | 41 min |
| Jul 31, 10:36 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | Reynolds | 39 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, 8.4 hours before the alert went out and 233 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
- 714 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -90 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 952 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 27 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 216 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 272 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.3
- Supercell composite
- 4.2
SPC that day
Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 31, 2:13 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Adair, Audrain, Benton, Boone, Callaway, Camden and 51 more | 2 hr |
| Jul 31, 5:30 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Audrain, Boone, Callaway, Camden, Cole, Cooper and 24 more | 90 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.