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Tornado Watch 675
The Storm Prediction Center issued this tornado watch at Sep 30, 2026, 3:58 PM CDT for 23 counties in Kansas. It was in force for 7 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Sep 30, 2026, 3:58 PM CDT (20:58 UTC)
- Expired
- Sep 30, 2026, 11:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 7 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
- Largest hail expected
- 1 in
- Strongest gust expected
- 60 kt
All 23 counties
Barton County, KS, Chase County, KS, Clay County, KS, Cloud County, KS, Dickinson County, KS, Ellsworth County, KS, Geary County, KS, Harvey County, KS, Lincoln County, KS, Lyon County, KS, Marion County, KS, McPherson County, KS, Mitchell County, KS, Morris County, KS, Osborne County, KS, Ottawa County, KS, Pottawatomie County, KS, Reno County, KS, Rice County, KS, Riley County, KS, Russell County, KS, Saline County, KS, Wabaunsee County, KS
The radar
The Topeka radar (KTWX), 117 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:02 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
- 20%
- Ten or more severe wind reports
- 20%
- One or more gusts of 65 knots or more
- 10%
- Ten or more severe hail reports
- 5%
- One or more hailstones of 2 inches or more
- 5%
- Six or more combined severe hail and wind reports
- 30%
Warnings issued inside it
10 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 30, 4:06 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ICT | Barton | 39 min |
| Sep 30, 4:13 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ICT | Barton, Russell | 14 min |
| Sep 30, 4:49 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ICT | Barton | 26 min |
| Sep 30, 5:02 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ICT | Barton, Russell | 28 min |
| Sep 30, 5:51 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ICT | Lincoln, Russell | 24 min |
| Sep 30, 6:14 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ICT | Lincoln, Russell | 46 min |
| Sep 30, 6:59 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ICT | Lincoln | 46 min |
| Sep 30, 7:05 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | GID | Mitchell | 40 min |
| Sep 30, 7:45 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | GID | Mitchell | 45 min |
| Sep 30, 8:50 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | GID | Mitchell | 13 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 30, 2:21 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Barber, Barton, Butler, Chase, Clay, Cloud and 31 more | 2 hr |
| Sep 30, 4:01 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Morton, Stevens | 119 min |
| Sep 30, 5:00 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Butler, Chautauqua, Coffey, Cowley, Elk, Greenwood and 3 more | 3 hr |
| Sep 30, 6:47 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Cloud, Lincoln, Mitchell, Ottawa | 88 min |
Nearby
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.