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Severe Thunderstorm Watch 288

May 19, 20055 states

The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at May 19, 2005, 11:15 AM CDT for 5 states. It was in force for 8 hr.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued: May 19, 2005, 11:15 AM CDT (16:15 UTC)
Expired: May 19, 2005, 7:00 PM CDT
In force: 8 hr
Issued by: the Storm Prediction Center

All 64 counties

Clay County, AR, Craighead County, AR, Greene County, AR, Lawrence County, AR, Poinsett County, AR, Randolph County, AR, Alexander County, IL, Bond County, IL, Clark County, IL, Clay County, IL, Clinton County, IL, Coles County, IL, Crawford County, IL, Cumberland County, IL, Douglas County, IL, Edgar County, IL, Edwards County, IL, Effingham County, IL, Fayette County, IL, Franklin County, IL, Gallatin County, IL, Hamilton County, IL, Jackson County, IL, Jasper County, IL, Jefferson County, IL, Johnson County, IL, Lawrence County, IL, Marion County, IL, Monroe County, IL, Moultrie County, IL, Perry County, IL, Pulaski County, IL, Randolph County, IL, Richland County, IL, Saint Clair County, IL, Saline County, IL, Shelby County, IL, Union County, IL, Vermilion County, IL, Wabash County, IL, Washington County, IL, Wayne County, IL, White County, IL, Williamson County, IL, Gibson County, IN, Posey County, IN, Ballard County, KY, Bollinger County, MO, Butler County, MO, Cape Girardeau County, MO, Carter County, MO, Dunklin County, MO, Iron County, MO, Madison County, MO, Mississippi County, MO, New Madrid County, MO, Perry County, MO, Reynolds County, MO, Ripley County, MO, Saint Francois County, MO, Sainte Genevieve County, MO, Scott County, MO, Stoddard County, MO, Wayne County, MO

The radar

The Paducah radar (KPAH), 114 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 16:15 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.

Warnings issued inside it

17 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 19, 1:59 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PAH	Wayne	46 min
May 19, 3:10 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILX	Clark, Cumberland	53 min
May 19, 3:19 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILX	Clay, Richland	56 min
May 19, 3:20 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PAH	Ripley	40 min
May 19, 3:29 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILX	Lawrence	61 min
May 19, 3:40 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PAH	Jackson	50 min
May 19, 3:46 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PAH	Butler	59 min
May 19, 3:59 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PAH	Perry	27 min
May 19, 4:01 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PAH	Carter	23 min
May 19, 4:15 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILX	Lawrence, Richland	60 min
May 19, 4:17 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PAH	Gibson	43 min
May 19, 4:22 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PAH	Edwards, Wabash	38 min
May 19, 4:28 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PAH	Jackson	47 min
May 19, 4:45 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PAH	Cape Girardeau	37 min
May 19, 5:16 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILX	Lawrence	60 min
May 19, 5:55 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILX	Richland	31 min
May 19, 6:25 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PAH	Edwards, Wabash	50 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 19, 10:44 AM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Baxter, Boone, Carroll, Clay, Fulton, Madison and 2 more	3 hr
May 19, 3:36 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Clay, Craighead, Greene	84 min
May 19, 5:59 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Clay, Craighead, Greene, Lawrence, Poinsett, Randolph	91 min
May 19, 6:58 AM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Bond, Christian, Clark, Clay, Clinton, Coles and 34 more	92 min
May 19, 12:41 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Boone, Bureau, Carroll, DeKalb, DuPage, Henry and 16 more	2 hr
May 19, 1:25 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	Boone, Bureau, Carroll, DeKalb, DuPage, Grundy and 25 more	8 hr
May 19, 3:50 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Boone, Bureau, Carroll, Cook, DeKalb, DuPage and 33 more	85 min
May 19, 6:20 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	Bond, Cass, Champaign, Christian, Clay, Clinton and 40 more	6 hr
May 19, 6:30 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Boone, Bureau, Carroll, Cook, DeKalb, DuPage and 33 more	90 min
May 19, 12:50 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	Clark, Crawford, Dubois, Floyd, Harrison, Perry and 4 more	8 hr
May 19, 1:15 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Bartholomew, Benton, Boone, Brown, Clay, Clinton and 38 more	2 hr
May 19, 2:00 PM CDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	Bartholomew, Boone, Brown, Clay, Daviess, Decatur and 26 more	7 hr
May 19, 3:26 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Bartholomew, Brown, Clay, Decatur, Fayette, Franklin and 17 more	94 min
May 19, 3:41 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Crawford, Dubois, Floyd, Harrison, Perry, Pike and 3 more	64 min
May 19, 4:50 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	Benton, Boone, Carroll, Cass, Clinton, Fountain and 18 more	4 hr
May 19, 6:13 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Crawford, Dubois, Floyd, Harrison, Perry, Spencer and 2 more	2 hr
May 19, 6:29 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Bartholomew, Brown, Clay, Daviess, Dearborn, Decatur and 12 more	91 min
May 19, 3:55 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	Adair, Allen, Anderson, Barren, Bath, Bourbon and 51 more	7 hr
May 18, 7:55 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Jackson	35 min

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.