Tornado Watch 320

Issued

May 29, 2001, 3:45 PM MDT (21:45 UTC)

Expired

May 29, 2001, 10:00 PM MDT

In force

6 hr

Issued by

the Storm Prediction Center

The Dodge City radar (KDDC), 114 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:48 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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URGENT - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
TORNADO WATCH NUMBER 320
STORM PREDICTION CENTER NORMAN OK
446 PM CDT TUE MAY 29 2001

THE STORM PREDICTION CENTER HAS ISSUED A
TORNADO WATCH FOR PORTIONS OF

   EASTERN COLORADO                           
   WESTERN AND CENTRAL KANSAS                             

EFFECTIVE THIS TUESDAY AFTERNOON AND EVENING FROM 445 PM UNTIL 1100
PM CDT.

TORNADOES...HAIL TO 3 INCHES IN DIAMETER...THUNDERSTORM WIND GUSTS
TO 70 MPH...AND DANGEROUS LIGHTNING ARE POSSIBLE IN THESE AREAS.

THE TORNADO WATCH AREA IS ALONG AND 140 STATUTE MILES EAST AND WEST
OF A LINE FROM 5 MILES SOUTH OF LIBERAL KANSAS TO 30 MILES WEST
NORTHWEST OF HILL CITY KANSAS.

REMEMBER...A TORNADO WATCH MEANS CONDITIONS ARE FAVORABLE FOR
TORNADOES AND SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS IN AND CLOSE TO THE WATCH AREA. 
PERSONS IN THESE AREAS SHOULD BE ON THE LOOKOUT FOR THREATENING
WEATHER CONDITIONS AND LISTEN FOR LATER STATEMENTS AND POSSIBLE
WARNINGS.

OTHER WATCH INFORMATION...THIS TORNADO WATCH REPLACES SEVERE
THUNDERSTORM WATCH NUMBER 317...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH NUMBER
318.  WATCH NUMBER 317...318 WILL NOT BE IN EFFECT AFTER 445 PM
CDT.  CONTINUE...WW 319...

DISCUSSION...SUPERCELLS AND SUPERCELL CLUSTERS EXPECTED TO CONTINUE
OVER MUCH OF WATCH AREA THIS EVENING...WHERE BOUNDARY LAYER AIR
MASS RECOVERY WILL CONTINUE AHEAD OF SPEED MAX EJECTING ENEWD FROM
THE SRN ROCKIES.  SBCAPE TO 3000 J/KG...LOW LCLS AND LOW LEVEL
VEERING SUGGEST THREAT FOR FEW TORNADOES IN ADDITION TO LARGE
HAIL/HIGH WINDS.   

AVIATION...TORNADOES AND A FEW SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WITH HAIL
SURFACE AND ALOFT TO 3 INCHES.  EXTREME TURBULENCE AND SURFACE WIND
GUSTS TO 60 KNOTS.  A FEW CUMULONIMBI WITH MAXIMUM TOPS TO 550. 
MEAN STORM MOTION VECTOR 24030.

...CORFIDI

;393,0974 365,0982 365,1033 393,1025;

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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.