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Severe Thunderstorm Watch 254
The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at May 11, 2005, 6:45 PM CDT for 7 counties in Kansas; Atchison County, Missouri; 5 counties in Nebraska. It was in force for 7 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- May 11, 2005, 6:45 PM CDT (23:45 UTC)
- Expired
- May 12, 2005, 2:00 AM CDT
- In force
- 7 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
Counties Brown County, KS, Jackson County, KS, Jefferson County, KS, Marshall County, KS, Nemaha County, KS, Pottawatomie County, KS, Riley County, KS, Atchison County, MO, Gage County, NE, Johnson County, NE, Nemaha County, NE, Pawnee County, NE, Richardson County, NE
The radar
The Topeka radar (KTWX), 107 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:47 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.
Warnings issued inside it
6 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 11, 6:53 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OAX | Gage | 37 min |
| May 11, 7:11 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Marshall | 18 min |
| May 11, 8:08 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OAX | Gage | 52 min |
| May 11, 8:16 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OAX | Pawnee | 44 min |
| May 11, 8:57 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OAX | Gage | 33 min |
| May 11, 8:58 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OAX | Pawnee | 32 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 10, 7:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Cheyenne, Decatur, Norton, Phillips, Rawlins, Smith | 7 hr |
| May 11, 8:41 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Atchison, Brown, Clay, Doniphan, Douglas, Geary and 12 more | 2 hr |
| May 11, 11:45 AM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Atchison, Brown, Doniphan, Jackson, Jefferson, Leavenworth and 6 more | 7 hr |
| May 11, 2:36 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Cheyenne, Decatur, Ellis, Finney, Gove, Graham and 27 more | 114 min |
| May 11, 2:55 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Clay, Cloud, Dickinson, Ellis, Geary, Jewell and 11 more | 7 hr |
| May 11, 3:10 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Cheyenne, Clark, Decatur, Finney, Ford, Gove and 24 more | 7 hr |
| May 11, 3:41 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Atchison, Brown, Doniphan, Jackson, Jefferson, Leavenworth and 4 more | 94 min |
| May 11, 4:50 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Johnson, Linn, Miami | 6 hr |
| May 11, 4:53 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Clay, Cloud, Dickinson, Ellis, Geary, Jewell and 11 more | 97 min |
| May 11, 5:13 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Cheyenne, Clark, Decatur, Finney, Ford, Gove and 24 more | 92 min |
| May 11, 5:25 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Atchison, Brown, Doniphan, Douglas, Franklin, Jackson and 13 more | 2 hr |
| May 11, 1:37 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Adair, Audrain, Chariton, Clark, Howard, Knox and 11 more | 113 min |
| May 11, 1:55 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Audrain, Boone, Callaway, Clark, Cole, Knox and 16 more | 6 hr |
| May 10, 9:14 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Burt, Butler, Colfax, Cuming, Dakota, Dodge and 10 more | 2 hr |
| May 11, 3:55 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Adams, Arthur, Boone, Buffalo, Butler, Chase and 34 more | 8 hr |
| May 11, 4:00 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Antelope, Arthur, Blaine, Boone, Brown, Buffalo and 25 more | 2 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.